The cholera is reported to be everywhere declining. It has
not made its appearance in Paris, as expected ; it has not struck Rome, where the Municipality is intelligent and has superseded wells by a good water supply; and in Naples the deaths have fallen to fifty-five. Even in Genoa, where the outburst was sharp, the new cases have sunk to sixty-five, and in the country dis- tricts there is no increase. Every day now brings us nearer to the cold, the great enemy of cholera, and it is for the next year that apprehensions should be entertained. Cholera rarely ceases in less than two years. There is time, therefore, for the two improvements which alone are of immediate use—the introduc- tion of a good supply of water, and the amendment of all drains till water will really ran through them, instead of percolating into the soil.
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