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! To the Edito'j me ''O"''


Permit me, through the columns of your pa
nor to call the attention of the Board OF Health
10 the epidemic which is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in this city. 1t is indeed 50 common
that il can scarcely have failed to fall under your
own personal observation. 1t is so common that
among large number of friends and acquaint-
ances. | scarcely know of one who has escaped
Being It's victim. | know of instances where
whole families have been prostratcd by it at the
same time. By some 1t is called the Influenza,
and although to a certain extent similarity
prevails, yet IN some respects, their characters
tics are entirely opposite.


The Influenza, it has been suggested, is
caused by the presence Of highly irritating and
poisonous gas in the atmosphere" In this there
seems great probability, and for that reason |
am inclined to suspect the presence OF d foul
vapor Or miasma in our atmosphere at present.
This could be created in various ways-such as
the prevalence of certain winds for length ol
time-brnging instead of healing on It's wings
sickness and death; or to the evil effects OF con-
stantiy wcttng the streets with Croton water.
And TO this practice Of washing the streets, so
favorably enlarged upon by the press, generally,
| respectfully charge 1t. Before the introduction
Of the Croton. our streets were seldom wet, and
when so sprinkcd salt water was the fluid used.
producing no III consequences. But now how
changed, Z" from morn Till noon, from noon TIL
dcwy evc,'' 90 where you may, you will see
those who possess g length Of hose" and they
arc not few, interestingly employed, not IN laying
the dust, for that IS an evil known only by name
but in rendering the dust more and more llquld.
for cleansing the streets, seems to be akin to an
imposSibility. 1t may easily be Supposed, that
the water which flowing IN its natural channel.
could cause sickness IN those unused to it, would
certainly lose none Of its i'll effects, by beng
transported for forty miles, in pipes all but her
medically sealed, and finally poured out upon our
streets, where it isspeedily rendered into gas, by
the hot sun.


But L ann occupying too much space, and
will briefly close by urging upon the b OF ii, the
propriety of instituting inquiries into the health
of ncghborng cities, and those particularly which
arc placed far beyond the reach OF the so termed
"bIcssings OF the Croton water


Yours, &c. EsPY, Jun


a. Probably Espy, Jr. is not aware that the
Influenza now scourgmg our city has been at
least equally virucnt at Boston, Albany, and
other cities where the Croton water is unknown,
and the streets are wet no otherwise this year
than formerly We submit that his theory is out
at the elbows. If the wettng OF the streets shall
compel our promcnaders to wear substantial m
stead of wafer-soed shoes, it will prove in this
respect public blessing Ed. Ir


ErP-'Thn G,relI;nr housr of Mr. Frederick