In this state of things, we have another visitation of the Asiatic cholera. We are again admonished as to our duties as men and Christians. Once more we are awakened to a full knowledge of the fact, that thousands of our fellow creatures are perishing annually, _victims to public neglect_. The great bulk of our working classes are placed in a condition unfavourable to health—a condition that forbids the preservation of the ordinary decencies and moralities of life. _There is a responsibility rests upon all who have influence or power_—_a responsibility which cannot be shaken off_. The work of reform is not accomplished because we have got a legislative enactment and a Board of Health. Every town-council and all parish authorities must see to it that the present warning is not neglected, and that it is not permitted to pass away unimproved. It is a question involving many others of great moment; and experience has shown that they cannot be neglected without serious loss, nor without entailing upon us great physical and moral evils. The history of the present visitation will be familiar to all readers. The general statements are absolutely appalling. In Albion Terrace, Wandsworth Road, seventeen persons died within a fortnight, in ten houses, of cholera. In one house no less than six persons died. This house was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Harrison, a dissenting minister: he had two relatives staying with him,—Mrs. Roscoe and Mrs. Edwards. Mrs. Roscoe was first attacked, and died; Mrs. Edwards, who attended upon her, was next seized; and on Mr. Harrison returning from the funeral of Mrs. Roscoe, he found his wife attacked by the same disease, and that lady expired the next morning. Mr. Harrison, overwhelmed by this terrible calamity, fled to Hampstead. On the morning of his departure Mrs. Edwards died, and the cook was attacked and died the same evening. On the following day the three bodies were interred at Kensall Green; and on the return of the mourners they found the nurse who had attended Mrs. Edwards dead, and a note informed them that Mr. Harrison had been attacked at Hampstead, and had died the same day. It is important to look at some of the facts brought out before the coroner’s jury. Mr. Harrison had stated before his death that he believed the attack had arisen from _bad drainage and from bad water_. Dr. Milroy stated, in his report, that in the house in which the epidemic had first broken out in that neighbourhood,—“The cellars were swarming with filth and maggots, amounting altogether to some cart-loads.” The verdict of the jury declared that the disease had first broken out “in a house where the drainage was very defective, and the water bad.”