TO THE El> T.Hi. Sin—Passing Numi's Cottages to day, I en quired of the person in charge what measures were being adopted to prevent the fever spread ing, and was told in reply, " My orders are not to let anyone go into the house, or anyone came out of it." The door of the bouse was closed ; the window partly open- Now, be it known that the mother of the children -one of whom has been removed out of the reach of infection —is a widow, of sober industrious habits, but., having to maintain herself and three children (the oldest not move than 7 or 8 years of age) by her needle, the family has had to put up with one small room, which serves for kitchen, parlour, and everything. It appears to me the extreme of cruelty, savouring of the days of superstition and barbarity, to incarcerate this poor widow and her two surviving children in her solitary chamber, by which the danger of ! the inmates is much intensified, She is under going that most dreaded of all gaol punishment, " solitary confinement," without a sight_ or • sound to cheer her, and alleviate her anxiety and distress. In a case like this, where the parties have no means of providing those things ' and that attendance which are absolutely neces : nary on such an occasion, it would be the greatest charity in the world to remove the i family to some detached cottage on the outskirts ' of the City, where, at ary rate, they would ; have abundance of fresh air, which is the best I diluent of the malaria, and renders it innocuous I to those waiting on tbe sick, as well as to the i neighbours. I I would like to know why this "ban'has ; been put upon Mrs Wall's family, while it is well known that the fever has been in one of . these cottages for three weeks past, and none of these absurd and dantrerous regulations en i forced, and there cannot be a doubt but that ' these children contracted the complaint from a 1 house on the opposite side of the right-of-way. ? --I am, &c, Fredk. Richaudson, M.E.O.b.
