Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
IMPROVES THE TOWN
THE WORK OF BRookLYRS HEALTH
 PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.


 How am Organization Composed of
 Six Hundred Prominent Women
 Corrects Civic Abuses and Eeauti- fes the City of Churches.
 Village improvement societies and all who are interested in town improve ment will get some valuable hints by studying the methods adopted by Brooklyn women to clean and beautify that city. An excellent example of what a few determined women can do is illustrated in the development of the Woman's Health Protective asso- citation of Brooklyn, which started it's work twelve years ago with mem bership of less than twenty and today has inscribed on its roster the names of 600 prominent women, says the New York World The association has for its object the enforcement of city or dinances and the inauguration of re- form where municipal cleanliness is concerned.
 Twelve years ago Mrs. A. J. Perry formed a little organization called the Street Improvement society. At the same time Mrs. James Scrimgeour founded similar society. Each was local club organized with the idea of improving conditions in their respec- tive vieinities.. Hearing of Mrs. Scrim- geow's society, Mrs. Perry visited meeting and the union of the two re- suited Now the organization has de veloped into one of the most potent factors in civic affairs in Brooklyn.
 Already number of reforms have been credited to the organization, the splitting in street cars and the throwing of paper in the street being two notice able endorsements of the law effected. It is to acquaint the people with city ordinances and to see that these laws are enforced tfrat the Woman's Health Protective association is most earnestly working.
 Its explanation is that good laws are made and filed away in archives con- deInned to disnse- Members propose to bring out the ordinances and make Brooklyn cleaner city. The expecto- rating in cars, in ferry houses and in front of the courthouse led to a violent agitation of the matter a num- Der of years ago, the association going to the health department and complain ing. The result was the placing of signs in the cars prohibiting expectorat- ing. Now the "L'' stations, the ferry houses and the cars are all in better condition, the association claims, as the outcome of it's work.
 The garbage abuse was another evil the Woman's Health Protective asso- citation started crusade against Ref use cans were allowed to stand un- emptfed in front of residences until the association took up the matter and won the co-operatio of the police depart ment, which detailed squad of police men to see that garbage-cans were not allowed to-stand in the-street. Further, the throwing of refuse in ash barrels is a subject the association is fighting.
 The cleaning of vacant lots and sani- tation in all forms are looked into by the society, and it's good work in re- forming civic abuses has won for it recognition from heads of the health and police departments. Now when reform in municipal sanitary conditions is required the Woman's Health Pro tective association is called upon.
 Regular meetings of the association are held once a month, but special meetings are called when any neces- sfty of immediate action is at hand. Members are called upon to bring com plaints of bad conditions existing, and the matter is taken up. Photographs are taken of the plaees where these conditions exist and are in turn laid before the healthaor police department
 There is nothing theoretical about the Woman's Health Protective asso- ciation. Hard work from the practical side is gone into, and the authorities have come to recognize it's power. Though the club numbers over 600 members, the meetings are attended by not more than thirty or forty women, but so great has interest in Brooklyn developed in the organization that dues are sent in from hundreds of women who desire to see the society kept up.