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What shall we do with the persistyiit floor and sidewalk spitter? 

 Will ediieation cause him to be displaced l>j a .ueiieration of non-spitters? 

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

 himself poor Imying patent medicines— medicines whicli 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 were 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 colunni. nuirked 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, neiu-algi;i, 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 l)y medical ads of all kinds, and that means of nos- 

 trums and of quacks, varied from 2..") 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 comparatively 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 year, 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 contrasi between a clean and a dusty 

 city is thus shown in a striking mannei*. 



