Carson Daily Appeal

Our Carson City has been decimated by the epidemic, which now rages there, and if haply the scourge shall shortly abate its fury, will its journals urge upon the public the necessity of some system of street cleaning and drainage? To its filth we firmly believe much of the malignance of the fever now raging there is attributable. - Gold Hill News.

The Appeal has many a time and oft urged the adoption, here, of an adequate system of drainage; and quite as often it has inveighed against the untidiness of our streets and the reprehensible practice of throwing all kinds of garbage into the streets and gutters. Moreover, we have been among the most strenuous advocates of a town or city government for the place. As to the scarlet fever being brought to its present state of malignity by this unclean state of our streets we are not quite as well convinced of that as our neighbor the News. The atmospherical condition arising from decaying vegetable matter and stagnant water, the malaria, in short, which breeds certain kinds of disease, is supposed to disappear--to be "killed," as the saying is--by the action of frost. The yellow fever is always abated if not wholly arrested in New Orleans and other places, so soon as the autumnal frosts set in. But the experiment of cleaning our streets and keeping them tidy and well drained, is worth trying, nevertheless, and we wish it might be tried, forthwith.