15 APRIL 1893, Page 3

The health reports from France are a little ominous. At

l'Orient, five hundred cases of cholera, with one hundred and fifty deaths, have occurred in March and the first ten days of April ; and though the inhabitants attribute the seizures to new cider, the doctors do not believe them. In Paris, again, influenza is raging severely, the increase of deaths last week from that cause having been 30 per cent. That is inconsistent with the notion that the disease is this year of a mild type, the truth apparently being, according to the official returns, that it spares the young and vigorous even if they are seized, but that it kills persons over sixty. We begin to hear of many cases in England, and this in spite of singularly fine weather.