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What shall Ave do AAith the persistent tloor and sidewalk spitter? 

 Will education cause him to be displaced by a generation of non-spitters? 

 What can we do for the poor, ignorant man, and his family, who keeps 

 himself poor buying patent medicines— medicines which may give relief 

 but which can not cure. 



The chief charts used in illustrating the paper were as follows: 



1. Chart showing the common names used in patent medicine adver- 

 tisements. The names Avere arranged in three columns, the first giving 

 names of ailments of a catarrhal nature or of the respiratory system, 

 and marked in red; the second column, marked in blue, contained names 

 of the rheumatic and aching type, thus:: 



' ' Catarrh " " Rheumatism ' ' 



"Colds" "Backache" 



"Grip" "Lame Back" 



' ' Sore Throat " " Kidney Disease ' ' 



"Pleurisy" " Aching Joints " 

 Etc. Etc. 



In the third column were given the names used more especially in con- 

 nection with the nervous and gastric manifestations of dust infection, 

 such as nervousness, headache, neuralgia, gastritis, a touch of malaria, 

 etc. 



2. Chart showing the amount of space occupied by advertisements of 

 patent medicines in the newspapers of different cities and towns. The 

 total space occupied by medical ads of all kinds, and that means of nos- 

 trums and of quacks, varied from 2..5 to 14.2 per cent., while the ads of 

 dust disease nostrums (as indicated on chart 1) varied from 1.1 per cent, 

 in a comparatiA'ely clean city, up to 10 per cent, (and even more) in a 

 dusty city. 



(Are we justified in concluding that if the inhabitants of a clean 

 city pay $1.10 per yeai*, those of a dusty city are compelled at the same 

 time to pay $10.00 for patent medicines?) 



3. An exhibit of the total number of ads and the amount of space 

 they occupy in newspapers of half a dozen different cities. Clippings all 

 pasted on long rolls of paper. The contrast between a clean and a dusty 

 city is thus shown in a striking manner. 



