26th October, Fever has broken out again among the foreign residents on the banks of that open sewer, the Yangking-pang, and the French Council are again considering the advisability of covering it over. More than once we have urged our Municipal Council to undertake this work in conjunction with the French Council, who are perfectly willing to pay half the cost. What is now a_ pestilential ditch, a refuge for thieves and beggars, would thus be turned into a handsome boulevard which, planted with rows of trees, would become one of the handsomest streets in Shanghai. The cost of making a culvert 8 feet by 6 feet would be Tis, 187 per chang, but this would be hardly large enough. 'The proposed culvert should be twelve feet wide. and the cost of this would probably be Tls. 350 per chang. 'The cost of making the 500 chang required would thus be some 'Lis. 175,000, or 'I'ls. 87,500 for each Council, and the ratepayers' money could hardly be better spent. We sincerely hope that the Council will include an appropriation for this in the Budget for the ensuing year that is now being prepared.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.