The Evening Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 269, 19 November 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1870.

It seems probable that efficient steps will not be taken for improving the sanatory condition of Auckland by suppressing the pestiferous nuisances that are all over the City, until attention is arrested by some terrible disasterIt may be well however to utter another note of warning from an incident that has occurred. This morning a death took place in Hobsonstreet in a house among its back slums, and where the effluvium from cesspoob is vile ; and the malady ,had present every symptom of Asiatic cholera. That miasmatic poisoning is slowly undermining the physical stamina of citizens must be a conviction in the mind of every one that has breathed here, aud in other cities. But that this poisoning should suddenly reach a crisis, in an outbreak of cholera is a possibility for which our minds are not perhaps generally prepared. Immunity from this pestilence is often hoped for, JVom the distance of the colonies from the villages in India, where this form of plague is endemic ; and we have recently seen it even stated that cholera has never crossed the Line, in total obliviousness of the fact that in Mauritius it has secured seemingly a permanent home, and that Port Louis has been repeatedly and fearfully ravaged. We do not desire to be alarmists, but it is folly to close our eye§ to the fact, that if cholera appeared in our midst, with our nuisances in then; present abominable state, our population would be decimated-