At the Hygienic Congress in Vienna, which opened on September
27th, and is attended by some 2,500 savants in sanitation, one marked difference of tone may be noted. England is no longer accused of murdering mankind rather than hinder her traders from getting profits. On the contrary, all the speakers in the three sections which discussed cholera agreed that England was probably in the right in disregarding quaran- tine. If she is not, they argued, how does it happen that with perpetual intercourse with India, where cholera never ceases, England is so seldom and so lightly visited by the peat P Strong opinions were expressed that England should stamp out cholera in India, but no practical recommendation was made, except farther inspection, which is of little use. A hundred thousand doctors could not inspect India effectively, nor have we power to break up the deep seclu- sion of Indian family life. What the Indian Government might do is to inspect departing ships mash more rigidly. But this will not do half the good which is done, as Dr. Spattazzi, of Naples, showed, by improving the water-supply. Naples, he said, owed her immunity in 1888 and 1887 to that.
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