“ That nothing should be left undone to breed mischief, men were employed to keep the drains constantly flushed, which would have been all very well had they communicated directly with the sea, but which as it was, had the effect of stirring up the fetid accumulationd of the cess-pools and filling the house with poisonous exhalations. Everybody is very sorry for Lord Londesborough, whose ignorance about these matters is not greater than that of most educated Englishmen. ”

“ The self-discipline of the Americans, their prompt practical turn of mind, and the tendency of the people to reduce governing machinery to a minimum, as in keeping order for themselves on the occasion of a great procession or demonstration, especially secured his admiration. ”

“ In fact the whole construction of the house affords in perfection all the conditions required to develop and propagate the enteric poison. It is built over two large cess-pools, between which and the inhabited parts of the building there were no fewer than thirteen communications. One of these cess-pools has not been opened for at least six years. It receives the drainage of six closets' is situated immediately underneath the cabinet of the bedroom occupied first by the Prince of Wales, and afterward by Lord Chesterfield, and is connected with this cabinet by a pipe only ten feet long. ”

“ The sewage from the cess-pools is supposed to flow through the town drains into the sea, but the action of the tide often drives it back. The consequence is that the drains are a great reservoir of sewer-gas, and that the strong current of air passing through them blows this noxious gas into the houses, no traps being able to keep it out. Of course, Lord Londesborough had no conception of the dangerous condition of his house, in which his own family had been residing for some time without any bad effects. ”

“ The painful suspense and apprehension of the day are written in almost every face. Ther is a constant and anxious crowd round the newspaper offices, and at the stations where it has been ususal during the last week or to two placard the latest medical bulletins. ”

“ It was confidently asserted that Lord Chesterfield had never stayed at Londesborough Lodge, Scarborough, at all whereas he not only was there during the Prince's visit, but afterward occupied the Prince's room. Anoter report was that a groom of the Duke of Beaufort, who had been with his master at Lord Londesborough's, was also down with the fever. The Duke wrote to the papers to say that he had no groom with him at Scarborough, and that no groom of his was ill with fever. It is now known that the sick man is not a groom, but a temporary servant of the Duke's, who attended him at Scarborough. ”

“ All the good bedrooms were, of course, assigned to the guests and the servants were pigged together anyhow and anywhere. Three maid-servants slept in a room six feet ten inches in height, the Prince's valet in a room six feet four inches in height and another servant in a kind of house-maid's cupboard. ”

“ The newspapers are full of drains, sink-traps and typhoid fever, and the result will peraps be that the sewerage of houses will be conducted henceforth in a more scientific and careful manner, and perhaps hae the benefit of official inspections, with a bill of fines and penalties for neglected or insufficient drainage. ”