The weather for the past fortnight has been very had, perhaps in part accounting for the great mortality. The great leat broke wth thunder, but on Sunday, 22nd June, there a tremendous storm for nearly the w jo day. In fifteen hours about fifteen inches of rain fell, causing a tremendous flood within the city, the ordinary channels being useless to carry off so inch water. Numbers of houses were flooded out, and of the rest very few roofs were in a condition to stand" such rain, The temperature also falling coniderab'y, caused almost. the whole population to catch chills, and thus be ready to succumb to the prevailing cholera. Since then the weather has been very wet and miserable, and for the past two days the rain has been steady, wud a cold north wind blowing. With a change to drier weather T think the disease would lessen, The population of the city has been using various means to get rid of the sickness, but the processions ant bangings of yangs are of little avail. If the same effort was expended in clentig the city generally speaking it is nob a dirty city—and in exhorting the people not to ea uncooked fruit and half-cooked.vegetables; much better. results could looked for.
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