Having now given many reasons why the citizens of Munich ought to be sick, it is time to see to what degree effects correspond to causes in the sanitary condition of the city.  Munich is known all over the world as a nest for typhus fever; nor will it soon be forgotten that within a year it has suffered from two distinct outbreaks of cholera, besides being the only city in Europe where that epidemic continued to rage during the winter.  The population is estimated at one hundred and eighty-eight thousand, but this number is generally considered as greater than the truth.  Statistics show that between two and three thousand sicken annually of typhus, and that of these between two and three hundred die.  Some idea of the special tendency to this disease may be obtained by comparing the statistics of Munich with those of Berlin, which is also an unfavorably situated and very unhealthy city.  In Berlin, the regiment most exposed to fever loses annually three men:  in Munich, the first regiment of artillery loses annually thirteen men.  In Berlin, of the whole body of the soldiery—­over eighteen thousand men—­sixteen men die annually of typhus; in Munich, where the number of the soldiers is only twelve thousand, fifty men die annually of typhus.  The disease, too, has been on the increase for the last three years.  In 1872 four hundred and seven persons died of it, and during the first four months of 1873 one hundred and twenty-two died.  Moreover, it must not be forgotten that many persons visiting Munich contract the fever there, but return home to sicken with it, and that this number has greatly increased since the recent facilities for travel have been extended in all directions from the capital.  If all these cases were to be added to the list of victims—­and they properly belong to it—­the number would be appalling indeed.  Even that small body, the Bavarian Parliament, loses one or more of its members every year from the same disease and yet these men are more favorably situated than almost any others as regards protective circumstances.  So patent is the danger, and so many are the instances of disease contracted during a short stay in the capital and carried away to spread contagion in remote places, that frequently persons chosen to honorable and lucrative official positions refuse to accept because, in order to hold such situations, they must reside temporarily or entirely in Munich.  Finally, the general unhealthiness of Munich cannot be questioned, since statistics show that nearly fifty per cent, of the children born there die in infancy, and that the death-rate for the whole population is nearly forty in a thousand.