TUBERCULAR EXPECTORATION 
Through the courtesy of Surgeon-General W. Wyman, of the United States 
Marine Hospital Service, and of Surgeon G. Purviance and Assistant-Surgeon J. F. 
Anderson, I have been able to obtain the Regulations in force in the large towns of 
the States. 
Baltimore : — 
' Be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, that it shall not be lawful 
for any person to spit or expectorate upon the floor of any street car or public conveyance, or of any 
public building within the City of Baltimore, under a penalty for each and ever}' offence of a fine of 
one dollar, to be recovered as are other fines for the violation of city ordinances.' 
Washington : — 
'That it shall be unlawful for any person to expectorate or spit on an}- part of any street railway car, 
or other public vehicle carrying passengers for hire, or in or upon any part of any public building under 
the control of the Commissioners of the District of Colombia. Street railway companies, and the 
proprietors of other public vehicles carrying passengers for hire, shall keep posted conspicuously in each 
and every one of their cars and public vehicles notice forbidding such expectorating or spitting. 
' Every person as aforesaid violating any of the provisions of any section of this article wherein a 
penalty is not provided shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more 
than forty dollars for each offense.' 
Boston : — 
'The Board of Health hereby adjudges that the deposit of sputum in public places is a nuisance, 
source of filth, and cause of sickness, and hereby orders : that spitting upon the floor, platform, or steps 
of any railroad or railway station, or car, or from an}' electric car while said car is in the subway, or 
elevated above the surface of the ground, or upon the floor, platform, or steps of an}' public building, hall, 
church, theatre, market, or any sidewalk immediately connected with said public places, be and hereby is, 
prohibited.' 
New York : — 
Spitting upon the floors of public buildings and of railroad cars and of ferry boats, and upon any 
station, platform or stairs of elevated railroads, is hereby forbidden, and officers in charge or control of 
all such buildings, cars, platforms, stairs, and boats, shall keep posted permanently in each public 
building and each railroad and on each station platform of elevated railroads, and in each ferry boat, a 
sufficient number of notices forbidding spitting upon the floors, and janitors of buildings, conductors of 
cars, and employes upon ferry boats and station platforms shall call the attention of all violators of this 
ordinance to such notices. And it shall be the duty of all persons or corporations manufacturing cigars 
or conducting the business of printing, where ten or more persons are employed on the premises in the 
City of New York to provide, and the}- are hereby required to provide, proper receptacles for spitting, in 
proportion of one to ever} two persons employed by them, and that said receptacles be disinfected and 
cleaned at least once during each working day. That a copy of the second paragraph of this section be 
kept posted permanently in a conspicuous place in all cigar manufactories and in printing offices where 
ten or more persons are employed.' 
