To the Editor of the "Nontn-Cutxa Dany News"
Sin—Will you please make it known through your correspondence columns that a city-wide effort will be made soon to persuade people not spit In public places. This movement is sponsored by the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's Organlzations In association with the Shang-thal Anti-Tuberculosis Association, the Council on "Public' Health of" the Chinese Medical Association, and the Health and Education Depariments of the International Settlement and French Concession.
We fully realize the magnitude of the problem of changing the habits of the millions now crowded into Shanghai, but we feel that education, slow as it must be, is the best method of Improving. conditions, and that, therefore, information should be disseminated as widely as possible.
We propose to have one week's in" tensive campaign, March 26 to April 2 the slogan to be "Health through Cleanliness." We expect to use postfers, give health talks to various groups, make an appeal to school children, through whom we hope to reach also the adults in their homes. Tt Is our intention to urge people to use handkerchiefs, spittoons, rains In the gulfer instead of Spite ting on the pavement and in other places where people wall, We shall point out that better health means Tess spitting and that the reverse is also true.
Tt ig because of our desire to make Shanghai a cleaner, healthier city that we make this appeal to the Mrs. J. $, Bonn.
Chairman of the Civic Affairs Committee Joint Committee of Women's Organizations, Shanghai, Mar. 21
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