The town itself is being grad™ ually cleared up, with the exception of the principal streets, largely by individual effort. The smell in many places is awful, but the most unsanitary conditions prevail in the outlying districts which were not burnt out or have been newly constructed where, consequent on the prolonged heat, the number.of fifes iis increasing. Still, improvements are being rapidly effected. Cases of infectious diseases are believed to be very few. Though the city is under martial law, soldiers are little in evidence, the night guards consisting principallly of those civilians organised immediately after the earthquake.—Reuter.
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