EXPECTORATION IN PUBLIC PLACES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 3 June 1907, Page 2

EXPECTORATION IN PUBLIC PLACES.

VIGOROUS ACTION WANTED

Recently we have been hearing a Jot about cleaning up premises to guard if gainst a threatened outbreak of disease (writes a correspondent under yesterday’s date); but while tho Health Department is very vigorous in one direction, there is another, and a very important one, ip which a lamentable degree of laxity appears-to obtain. I refer to expectoration in public places. This filthy lialdt will do more spread disease than almost anything else, but as far as I can see no stops have been taken to check it in Gisborne. In most towns in New Zealand there is a borough by-law making it an offence to .expectorate in public places, and the police are generally very strict about enforcing the by-law. To-night ns I passed down Glad-stone-road with my wife I passed a group of about a dozen men who were expectorating copiously over the footpath in their vicinity. If there is no borough by-law dealing with the matter, one should at Qiice be made. Notices should be erected in the main streets, and the -police asked to see that the by-law is complied with. The work to be placed on the police would not be hard, for after one or two persons had been fined fair sums for expectoration in public places, the public generally would become very chary about indulging in this dirty and dangerous habit.