To the Editor of the "Nonra-Cums Datty News."
Siz,—I notice in the " Municipal Gazette" published on Thursday fast that the Health Department of the Municipal Council reports great Prevalence of smallpox and scarlet fever, and advises precautionary measures to the general public.
Might I suggest that it would be advisable to send a Health Officer frequently to inspect the passengers on the trams, especially the Rifle Range and Yangtszepoo cars and those on which Chinese women and children travel at 2nd class rates ip 1st class cars.
I have several times lately seen in the Ist class 8 both Chinese and Japanese visibly recom from smallpox; in two cases during the present week'with the scars hardly healed. A day or two ago a Chinese child (with its mother) came on the car I was in, peeling from scarlet fever. This is a shameful menace to public health.
There may, or may not, be al," remedy in the way of a penalty which can be enforced, of that I know nothing; but at least such cases should be turned off the car by health officer. A foreigner is helpless unless he can speak Chinese.
Tam, etc,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.