Arizona republican., 1907-10-06

they should not spit. The signs We lhave recommended read as follows:
 Splitting on the floor or on the plat form of this car is a crime and will be punished as such.-By order of the
 board os health"
 Consumption and other diseases are lspread by careless splitting. Spit into Ithe gutter or into a spittoon.-Sanitary League Bulletin"
 Splitting on the floor or on the plat form of this car is a crime and will be lpunished as such.-By order of the
 board of health.
 Splitting in public places is a dan
 gerous practice. Diseases are spread
 in that way Spit into the gutter or
 into spittoon.-Sanitary League Bull lletin"
 Splitting on the floor or on the plat form of this car is a crime and will be punished as such.-By order of the board of health.
 Consumption is caused by the poi son in the consumptive's spit. The poisonous spit dries and goes as dust into other peoples lungs. Spit into the gutter or into a spittoon.-Sanitary League Bulletin"
 Splitting on the floor or on the plat form of this car is a crime and will be punished as such.-By order of the board of health
 "The trouble now is that cOnsump- ton is spread by careless splitting. Spit into the gutter or into a spittoOn.-San- itary League Bulletin"
 You will see that the object of these signs is not only to forbid splitting. but to give, in as compact a form as pos sible, the reasons why careless splitting is to be avoided. l think that these signs should be changed from time to time so as to give the people instruc- tion in the various phases of our sub ject. Signs of this kind should prove most effective in the educational branch of our work. I hope to see them widel:- rsed.
 With regard to the various other methods of education. l have made no reference to them or to the tuberculosis exhibitions which have been carried on in some of our larger cities. because we have had no personal experience with them, and also because they have been widely discussed in our litera- ture. I have no doubt that they all do a great deal of good. I believe that through exhibitions. through circulars. through the advertising lantern. tB fcrnG through the public schools. - through all sorts of educational eXpedients.-a profound impression is being made upon the minds of the people which is sure to result in a saner manner Of living and in a substantially lessened mortality from consumption.
 In whatever educational work We do it is of the utmost importance to con centrate our efforts as much as pos sible upon the essential features. upon the splitting nuisance. upon the i'm pOrtanee of fresh air. upon the neces- sity of early treatment, and upon the avoidance of alcohol. If we go into the refinements of the subject. our mes sage loses weight by too great diffu- sion. Concentration. then. is the key note to success in educational work
 But the real object of our campaign is broader than the education of the people generally. it is broader than the accumulation and publication of data regarding the disease-it is to get con trol Of the disease to limit it's spread. and. where possible. to stamp out and destroy the sources of the infection. This can be done only through a spe- cial dispensary organization. A tuber- culosis dispensary. then. should be the goal of our effort-a place where the needy poor may receive the necessary treatment. This is. no doubt, an inn portant function of such as institution. But, of still greater importance, it should be a place where all of the in terests and aspects of the disease are centered and kept under observation and control. A tuberculosis dispensary should be the center. so to speak. of the tuberculosis industry of the com munity. It should contain a complete record of the deaths which have taken place in the past. of the houses in which cases of consumption are known to exist, and of those workshops which are believed to be a source of infec- tion. and it should be the duty of such dispensary to keep informed of al. re- movals of cOnsumptives from one house or apartment to another, so as to see that the vacated premises are properly disinfected.
 The most important object then. of a tuberculosis dispensary. and it is the duty of the hospital and finance com mittees of an organization to find ways and means of providing such a dispen- sary at the earliest possible moment. The dispensary should be in charge of person who has a thorough grasp of the objects to be accomplished. who will maintain the records of consump- tion throughout the city through the various sources of information open to him: first, through information deriv- ed from patients visiting the dispen- sary. second. from records of the board of health. third, from the report of the