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opinion it is urgently necessary such provision should he made,
and recommended the Council endorse this opinion, and the Metropolitan
Asylums Board be so informed.
SPITTING AND PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.
Respecting spitting, except into proper receptacles, the Public
Health and Housing Committee considered it desirable, with a
view to the prevention of consumption, that public notices should
be issued cautioning persons against spitting in the public
thoroughfares, and recommended the Council that notices against
public spitting be posted throughout the Borough.
In aid of the prevention of consumption and other diseases, large
bills requesting the public not to spit on the footways or public
thoroughfares were posted about the district.
Cards made to hang up respecting spitting as mentioned above
were sent to all the public institutions in the Borough, viz., Public
Baths. Libraries, Sick Asylum, City of London Union Infirmary,
Stepney Union Workhouse, Poplar Hospital and institutions
belonging to the Guardians. Cards were also left by the Sanitary
Inspectors at factories, workshops and work-places, with the
request that they might be exhibited about the works. Cards were
also distributed at the common lodging-houses and the seamon's
lodging-houses.
PHYSICAL DETERIORATION AND ALCOHOLISM.
The Committee considered the reference from the Council on the
subject of the desirability of posting throughout the Borough a
bill on Physical Deterioration and Alcoholism.