More Dangerous Than So-Called Plagues.
"It is a fact well known to the medical profession," said a prominent physician, "that much less harm is done in New York by those diseases most feared by the public and the Health Board, than by the diseases which cause little alarm in the community. The so-called plagues are not likely to cause much havoc in this latitude, particularly in a city where the sanitary regulations are good. No scourge is so much feared as Asiatic cholera, yet the deaths from that disease in this city during the year of the greatest epidemic, were less in number than the deaths from consumption last year. Yellow fever has killed fewer people in New York in this century than hooping-cough has destroyed in a single year. Small-pox, which is causing so much alarm at present, kills fewer persons here than does either measles, croup, or hooping-cough."—Tribune.