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arise from indiscriminate spitting, and that an offer be made to supply cards of warning to hang
up if they so desire. An appropriate form of wording for the card would be as follows :—
SPITTING
EXCEPT INTO PROPER RECEPTACLES
IS
STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Indoor Expectoration on Floors is a Main Source of
Spread of Consumption.
education or the public.
As I have already mentioned, in 1901 a leaflet on the Prevention of Consumption was
approved by the Public Health Committee and distributed in the Borough.
The National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of
tuberculosis has been doing exeellent work for the promotion of the education of the public, and
it has now many local branches in various parts of the Kingdom. During the past year this
Association has been successful in securing the co-operation of the Friendly Societies. This
co-operation is very valuable as it will bring to the whole movement for the prevention of
tuberculosis a wide-spread public interest among the working classes of the country as the
Friendly Societies represent some 3,000,000 adult and 600,000 child members. The Council of
the National Association has recently forwarded 500 copies of their leaflets to the National
Conference of Friendly Societies, and arrangements for keeping the Friendly Societies supplied
with leaflets from time to time at a minimum cost will be entered into.
An elementary course on matters relating to Public Health ought to form part of the
curriculum of all schools.