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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 9.

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Moral Sanitation and Community Health

By David Starr Jordan

To clean up a town, to free it from corrosion, saves men and boys and girls, too, from vice, and who shall say that moral sanitation is not as much the duty of the community as physical sanitation? The city of the future will not permit the existence of slums and dives and tippling houses. It will prohibit their being, for the same reason that it now prohibits pig-pens and cesspools. For where all of these things are, slums and cesspools, saloons and pig-pens, there the people grow weak and die.—David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University.