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" 'owner, agent, lessee or occupant who shall refuse or neglect to
" 'comply with any order of the health officer in supplying said
" 'cuspidors, shall be fined in a sum not less than one dollar nor
" 'more than five dollars for each offence.'7
"In New Orleans, the rule first adopted only forbade spitting tobacco
"on street cars, but it has been recently modified to forbid all spitting."
Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax and Nova Scotia have all made the habit a
penal offence.
New South Wales.—By Section 130 of "The New South Wales
Municipalities Act, 1897," the Council of any Municipality is empowered to
make Bye-laws (inter alia) for "Providing for the health of the Municipality,
"and against the spreading of contagious or infectious disease," and although
spitting in public is not specifically included therein, a Bye-law has been
made by the Council of the Borough of North Sydney under the provisions
of this Act, in regard to expectorating on the footway, as follows: "No
"person shall expectorate on the footway of any street in the Borough, and
"any person so offending shall for each offence, upon conviction, forfeit and
"pay a penalty or sum not exceeding one pound (1l.)— 12th November,
"1901."
And again, in a Bill" to codify and amend the Municipalities Act, 1897,
"and to make further and better provision for Municipal government," which
Bill was introduced into the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales by
the Premier on the 7th August, 1902, "the prevention of persons
"expectorating on any footway under the control of the Council" is
expressly included in the matters of which the Council of a Municipality
may make Bye-laws.
So far as can be ascertained the Bill has not yet become law, but the
Legislative Assembly in Committee has agreed to the Clause above indicated.
Another Borough, Glebe, has a Bye-law under the Act of 1897, providing
a penalty " not exceeding Ten pounds " in respect of this offence.
In Germany, the law of 1898 strictly prohibits the practice of spitting on
the platforms and in the carriages of the railway companies.
In Austria.— A Circular issued by the Railway Minister orders Notices to
be placed in all railway carriages forbidding spitting.
In Belgium, spitting on the ground is prohibited. *
7Colorado Springs, Sanitary Code (1897), Sec. 60.