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corruption wo bavo dealt only super
ficially, we have cut away tho fes
tered spots, and left the diseased roots
to work other festers. Take the prob
lem of the Tenderloin woman.
It belongs not to tho pollco depart
ment but to the health department. It
Is not a police problem in Its last
analysis but a pathological problem.
I am not discussing cither the ques
tion of Its suppression or toleration,
but tho branch of government where
tho decision of that Question properly
belongs. Wo have Instituted health
departments to deal with public dis
ease and contagion. We have given
them authority to quarantine affected
localities, to post warning cards to
the public, to enforce, as they see fit,
the purposo of those warnings. Why
should we exempt one diseased sec
tion of the community from this ju
risdiction and thrust its control on to
the shoulders of the police, who cer
tainly have neither the knowledge
nor the opportunity of acquiring tho
knowledge that should enter into Its
supervision? The transferring of this
task to the health authorities should
accomplish several direct results.
In the first place, It would remove
one of the greatest sources of police
corruption a corruption largely
fostered by tho fact that tho police
man knows that ho is dealing with an
evil which ho can not hope to subdue
without effective co-operation from
other sources. It would give tho
police force time and opportunity to
servo the public in a variety of other
ways. And reverting to tho problem
Itself, such a measure would place It
under the direct, personal supervision
of men qualified to handle it from a
pathological angle, and with the
knowledge and the means to quaran
tine Its locality as they would other
plague spots.
I am not speaking now either of
the so-termed white slave traffic or
forcible detentions. Such questions,
of course, belong essentially to tho
police. Nor Is there doubt that they
could bo handled much more thor
oughly and promptly were they dealt
with entirely as crimes, irrespective
of the more general condition behind
them.
liquor problem is another duty
foreign to pollco administration
by every dictate of business and legal
standards. It should be entirely In the
hands of the excise department. Wo
have set specialists to work to frame
laws to govern our liquor-sale, we
have Instituted an elaborate system
of licenses, wo have provided a defi
nite machinery to seo that thoso li
censes are enforced, collected, and
not violated. Why should we add to
the duties of the police a task for
which wo have established a specific
arm of government? Our liquor laws,
with our weird processes of tinker
ing, are among the most complex on
our statute books. Anything llko a
specific regulation must be general as
well as local. Certainly nothing llko
a systematic, practical enforcement
of those laws can be obtained through
tho agency of several hundred pollco
departments, each, of necessity, work
ing from a different angle. Regard
less of its graft complexion, regard
less of the direct or Indirect relation
of tho police, the liquor problem, as a
problem, can only bo handled success
fully through the excise department.
And Its complete removal from the
police, as In tho Instance of tho Ten
derloin question, will not only clear
away much of tho moral sea-weed
now dragging down their effective
ness, but will leave the department
more at liberty to fulfil tho functions
for which it was created. Incident
ally, It will do more to free the police
from the shadow of political manipu
lation than all of the reform cam
paigns of a generation!
Dog Days and Thermometer Terrors
By Woods Hutchinson, M. D.
LD dreads dlo hard. Wo
still look forward Instinc
tively to Summer as tho
Sickly Season and shako
our heads ominously and
forebodingly over tho
Heat-Sicknesses, the Choleras, tho
Dysenteries and In children tho
dread perils of tho "second summer,"
of the teething-fevers and heat
rashes. But years ago, Just as soon as we
began to keep accurate records of
deaths and diseases the year round,
wo found to our astonishment that
the deadly summer solstice, even tho
dog days of evil repute, was really
tho healthiest part of the year. Tho
civilized world over, all through tho
temperate zones clear down to tho
tropics, tho three months of lowest
death rate In tho whole year aro as
a rulo July, August and September. It
is tho dramatic suddenness, nnd often
painfullness of death from tho dis
eases of hot weather, cholera, sun
strokes and fovers, which has so viv
idly impressed our imagination that
wo Imagine llfo more unsafe at this
season than at any other. Ordinary
coughs, colds and consumptions, with
tho foul air brood that circle round
them, slay five times as many as all
the summer pestilences put together.
Nine-tenths of tho dangers of sum
mer heat can bo expressed In two
words, each substantially meaning
the same thing: bugs and clfrt. Hot
weather is dangerous exactly in pro
portion as it encourages "bugs" to
prow on and in our foods, or as It
calls Into existence agencies for scat
tering bugs broadcast over, our food,
our houses, our persons, such as flies,
mosquitoes and other Insects; and
clouds of dust.
Our salvation from summer dis
eases is summed up In the word
Clean, llko Archbishop Laud's famous
policy of Thorough. Keep your food
absolutely and spotlessly clean, your
hands, your kitchens and tables Im
maculate, your houses and barn
yards clean, In the very Important
sense of frco from mosquitoes and'
flies, nnd you can snap your lingers
at the summer heat.
BUT, says someone, I thought the
grent heat alone would make
things spoil, as everyone knows milk
Is soured by thunder. True only In
part, for although high temperature
will greatly encourage and Increase
all processes of decay and spoiling,
yet this is chiefly because It encour
ages tho growth nnd Increases the
multiplication of the bugs or bacteria
of putrefaction which have fallen
Into that food. No bugs, no decay, Is
a pretty safe rule in the pantry, as It
is an absolute ono In tho laboratory.
Tho spores of certain forms of
germs float about tho plr almost
everywhere (such as tho yeasts,
which produco all sorts of for
mentations, alcoholic, vinegary, etc.,
and tho lactic acid bacilli that "sour"
milk) so that It is almost impossible
to avoid them entirely. Yet fortu
nately, these common and ajmost in
escapable germs produce few changes
in our foods, which are seriously dan
gerous to our health, although often
disagreeable and never to bo re
garded as an advantage. Indeed,
"cleanly" soured milk is probably
slightly more digestible In tho aver
age stomach than anything but the
very freshest. Wo used to think It a
horrible thing to glvo babies sour
milk, and so it was if "self-soured,"
for that meant swarms of filth germs
In it as well. Now wo are actually
curdling the staff of life with citric
and even "puro strain" lactic acid
to make It moro easily digested by
delicate babies, with certain forms
of stomach trouble.
The field of battle narrows Itself
down In tho most cheering fashion,
until for practical purposes It may be
limited to a fight against every possl
(Continue J on Pago IS)