be Opettutor, gleptembet 17th, 1853 Tira cholera is again amongst us,
and we are still talking of "preparations " to meet it. More than twenty years have elapsed since we first encountered this dreadful enemy; four years since it found our scientific and professional men fully. prepared with evidence and plans to show the necessity of hastening our defensive works against the coming of a new•visitation. In 1849, the cholera broke out in Newcastle, in Gateshead, in Southwark and Bermondsey; and in those places it broke out upon the identical spots which are now first marked by the disease. It springs up amid the same active causes—the same crowding of houses unfit to be human habitations; springs up in places like " Turner's Retreat " at Bermondsey, where the worms of putrefaction come through the ceiling of the dwelling- room; in places like the infected quarter of St. George's parish, amidst " knackers' yards " and bone-boilers. Those causes were Poihted out, their operation understood, their removal demanded, the necessity for that removal admitted; and—they still exist—still Providing the nidus in which the travelling pestilence abides and breeds. For twenty years and more we have talked about preparations, and neW when the cholera is again at its deadly work for the third time, there is a burst from the Press and from society to know why 'Wit We have done nothing ?
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