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continuing, or, if this object cannot be attained, to
prevent the water from being drunk. Cisterns
should be cleaned, and any connexions of wastepipes
with drains should be severed.
(b.) Simultaneously, there should be immediate
thorough removal of every sort of house-refuse and
other filth which has accumulated in neglected
places ; future accumulations of the same sort should
be prevented; attention should be given to all
defects of house drains and sinks through which
offensive smells are let into houses; thorough
washing and lime washing of uncleanly premises,
especially of such as are densely occupied, should
be practised again and again.
8. It may fairly be believed that, in considerable
parts of the country, conditions favourable to
the spread of Cholera are now less abundant than
at any former time; and in this connexion, the
gratifying fact deserves to be recorded that during
recent years enteric fever, the disease which in its
methods of extension bears the nearest resemblance
to Cholera, has continuously and notably declined in
England. But it is certain that in many places such
conditions are present as would, if Cholera were introduced,
assist in the spread of that disease. It is
to be hoped that in all these cases, the local sanitary