Combined Efforts on National Tuberculosis Sunday

1910

Opportunity To Do Good

New York City had more arrests for violation of the anti-spitting ordinance in 1909 than any other city in the United States, having had 2,513, with 2,099 convictions, and $1,936.80 collected in fines. Baltimore comes next with 214 arrests and an equal number of convictions. Pittsburgh is third in rank, with St. Louis in fourth place.

St. Louis, however, would have been in second place, if the sanitary police who enforce the law in that city had been at work in 1909. In 52 cities out of 80 the law was either not enforced at all or very poorly enforced. Of the remaining 28 cities, less than one-half of them contributed more than three-fourths of the arrests for spitting and of the fines collected.

On account of the fact that National Tuberculosis Sunday will be observed on April 24, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis is calling the attention of clergymen in all parts of the country to the advisability of bringing before their congregations the necessity for better enforcement of the anti-spitting laws.


Friends

It is a good thing to have good friends, but not to be dominated too much or too long by their example. — Rev. William Dickie.