Why does not Mr. Walter propose that all persons seized
with small-pox in Berkshire should at once be buried in quicklime ? His constituents would be delighted. The -Sanitary Board of Maidenhead, it appears, have a practice of hiring cottage hospitals for pauper patients with that disease. They hired one recently in the village of White Waltham, and though told by the vicar, Mr. W. W. Yonge, that there would be a breach of the peace—a breach which appears from his letter to have his sympathy—they were unable to believe that Englishmen could be such savages. However, White Waltham rose and destroyed the fittings of the house selected, and the patients- children—were placed in a solitary house in a field near Maiden- head. We trust Mr. Yonge preached next week on the healing of the Leper, -whom Christ, as he is perhaps aware, is repre- seuted to have touched, and showed his audience how reprehen- sible any imitation of His example would be.
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