To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuixa Darty News."
Sin,—In this morning's issue of your valuable paper, the Municipal Council publishes an advertisement which has the laudable object in vi prevent, as far as possible, th of cholera.
It appears to me that the most effective measure to take against the epidemic, which fortunately isar present in its infancy, would be the prohibition of the sale of unripe fruit and other arables, which can be seen any day being offered to the Chinese public by vendors in the streets. The eatables are generally infested with insects of fall variety and it ix from these that the cholera gem derives its existence. It i not quite clear to me why the necessary steps have not been taken before. In every city which lays claim to being "model" and. up-to-date" prompt measures are taken to control the sale of all eatables in and outside the public markets. For instance, had a nan sold grapeselsenhere in the condition in which a Chinese jor in the doorway of No. Kiangse Road has been selling them for a week, he would have been arrested and, probably, heavily fined.
The Inying of dust with water ix another important factor in the genera 1 of cholera germs in their most virulent form and I think that stringent measures should lo taken in this direction.
T feel I cannot do better than to ask sou kindly to give publicity to these few lines in your widely-read columns, feeling "sure some Shanghai, August 16.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.