SANITATION IN CALCUTTA So ranch space has been taken, up with our remarks on the withdrawal of the water-supply from the shipping, that we have
commenting upon Dr. Payne's report of 1st Julythe Chairman of the Justices for Calcutta. However, we
little left for
last,
to
redeem the promise which we gave inour last issue, and in another place re-produce part of the report, as corrected by Dr. Payne. We also insert in the correspondence columns a letter from him, Dr. Payne, we direct the attention of our readers.
and to both
while tracing the connection which exists between the decrease of cholera in Calcutta and the extension of the filtered
water-supply*
does not commit himself to any view, or wish to be considered as a staunch supporter of the water-theory. He, as a sanitarian, records facts ; endeavours to the weak those
points
measures
sanitarians to
are
in
bring evidence, and
out
the strong, and dismiss
recommends the
for the maintenance of
agreed.
While there
health,
are
so
adoption
on
of
which all
many able
men
affirm,
that water is the chief medium for the conveyance of the germs which, they assert, cause cholera ; and while
ready
many others
equally competent to judge, are exactly of the opposite opinion, and deny the existence of such things as germs, et hoc genus omne, in disease, perhaps the old maxim, in medio tutissimus ibis, is the best for us to observe. As Dr. Payne the existence and operation of a material virus is yet a says, matter for suspended judgment." It is, however, the duty of "
every medical
man
to
endeavour to find
some
evidence either
against these disputed questions, and also to search for whatever connection there may be, if any, between cholera and water; and not water only, but air, soil, and all other surroundings. Having obtained undoubted facts, it is further the duty for
or
investigator to put them forward, either with, or without opinions or conclusions. It is to the former that we, profession, look, and from them we expect light in the
of the his as
a
own
future.
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
246
Br. Payne's report will well repay persual and careful attention, and few will disagree with his recommendations for the prevention of
sickness,
nuisances which or
pools
of
"
the removal
for
and
are
source
a
concentrated
of
filth,"
danger
of those undoubted to all.
Those tanks
in which the native bathes,
and with the water of which he rinses
commenting upon Dr. Payne's report of 1st Julythe Chairman of the Justices for Calcutta. However, we
little left for
last,
to
redeem the promise which we gave inour last issue, and in another place re-produce part of the report, as corrected by Dr. Payne. We also insert in the correspondence columns a letter from him, Dr. Payne, we direct the attention of our readers.
and to both
while tracing the connection which exists between the decrease of cholera in Calcutta and the extension of the filtered
water-supply*
does not commit himself to any view, or wish to be considered as a staunch supporter of the water-theory. He, as a sanitarian, records facts ; endeavours to the weak those
points
measures
sanitarians to
are
in
bring evidence, and
out
the strong, and dismiss
recommends the
for the maintenance of
agreed.
While there
health,
are
so
adoption
on
of
which all
many able
men
affirm,
that water is the chief medium for the conveyance of the germs which, they assert, cause cholera ; and while
ready
many others
equally competent to judge, are exactly of the opposite opinion, and deny the existence of such things as germs, et hoc genus omne, in disease, perhaps the old maxim, in medio tutissimus ibis, is the best for us to observe. As Dr. Payne the existence and operation of a material virus is yet a says, matter for suspended judgment." It is, however, the duty of "
every medical
man
to
endeavour to find
some
evidence either
against these disputed questions, and also to search for whatever connection there may be, if any, between cholera and water; and not water only, but air, soil, and all other surroundings. Having obtained undoubted facts, it is further the duty for
or
investigator to put them forward, either with, or without opinions or conclusions. It is to the former that we, profession, look, and from them we expect light in the
of the his as
a
own
future.
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
246
Br. Payne's report will well repay persual and careful attention, and few will disagree with his recommendations for the prevention of
sickness,
nuisances which or
pools
of
"
the removal
for
and
are
source
a
concentrated
of
filth,"
danger
of those undoubted to all.
Those tanks
in which the native bathes,
and with the water of which he rinses
