The Archive · 1936

Sanitary Department

A sanitary department is about to be trained as a special branch of the local police force. Selected men are to be chosen from the. forer educated in this "work; the police ameer will give a pectus every morning on the meaning significance of the New Lite Move ment; ten men will be chosen from each police division for special train ing and after an intensive short course of study they will supervise the sanitation of the city, which will be under their control. "Those who do not obey their orders will be duly The police force of the city are its governers and dictators. The whole Welfare of the town circles round the sanctum of the chief police oticer. In other countries, the department of public health would be a special, highly trained subordinate branch of the medical department and not attached in any way to the police department. What will happen can be easily foreseen, These men with little knowledge (always dangerous) and unlimited oppressive authority, if not given then assumed, will make themselves an obnoxious nuisance, ind either be paid to close their eyes and see nothing, or will get people ned to swell the revenue.

Even at present a man will go to any extreme rather than fall into the clutches of the police. Granted the police have a difficult bask to perform in the prevailing lawlessness fof emigrees, but they are overbearingly strong to their own people and wobbly weak in the face of these strangers.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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