The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-21 00:00:00

7HE EPIDEMIC IN 7IIE MAURITIUS.

In spite of more favourable weather, the fever
does not disappear. The general mortality in town
and country, and especially in the latter, has cer-
tainly diminished; it is, however, far greater than
it ought to be, and particularly in Port Louis,
where the death-rate is 10 per cent. per annum.
The population of the whole island was 340,000 last
year, and the mortality was over 41,000 ; yet, not-
withstanding this enormous fatality, the authorities
kept squabbling in a most disgraceful way. The
Government and municipal authorities did not act
as they ought to have done ; and the General
Board of Health, hampered as it was by th€, L3cal
Board, and by the ill-health of Dr. Reid, the Vice-
President, who has just rosignel, made little sani-
tary effort to improve the state of the public health.
We arc glad, therefore, to see some chance of earnest
work being done. his Grace the I)uke of Bucking-
ham sent a despatch to the General Board, recom-
mending a system of drainage for Port Louis ; and,
although many of the local papers resisted the idea
on the most absurd and ignorant pretexts, a move-
ment in the proper direction has been taken. A Com-
mission, including the resident engineer of railways
(who, we hope, is a good sanitary engineer also), has
been appointed to decide on the system of drainage
to be sanctioned ; and the Commission have re-
solved to request his Excellency the Governor to
order a block contour survey to be made, prelimi-
nary to the whole question. The Fever Inquiry
Commission have also appointed a sub-committee,
including three medical men, to prepare a concise
report on the evidence already obtained, which
should have been collected in a useful form long
ere this. Whether the efforts now being made will
come to anything, it is difficult to say ; but, should
they not have a speedy result, it is the duty of the
Government at home to take the matter up in a more
earnest spirit, and sand out a Commission to inves-
tigate what has been shameful, and we might add
criminal, mismanagement and neglect, on the part
of the authorities, of the sanitary means at their
disposal.—. British Medical Journal.

The duties of Brimade.Major at the Royal Engi-
neer Establishment, Chatham, are ordered to be
carried out by Lieutenant W. Merriman during the
absetce, on two months' sick leave, of Major R.
Harrison.
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