Genre:

Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Disease, Public Health, Sanitation

People mentioned:

Joseph Fayrer

Institutions mentioned:

Sanitary Institute

    Reports that 'cholera, that beneficent sanitary inspector of the universe, is on his rounds again'. The water-born disease 'probably does more for the sanitation of the world than all the other diseases put together' (213), for it is only during a cholera outbreak that there occurs 'a sudden awakening of the public conscience' over the need for public health legislation (214).