Another need imperatively demanded by the exigencies of city life is the establishment of public water-closets at several thousand convenient centers throughout this great city. At present the male population, when away from their residences, are obliged to make use of a near-by saloon--a most uncertain resort, and one in which courtesy will generally constrain them to imbibe intoxicants _nolens volens_. The female population have not even the saloon as a resort, and can relieve themselves only when in the vicinity of department stores. American enterprise can improve in many respects on the several European models of public-relief stations. The public is becoming conscious of its needs and rights in this respect; and one of the sanitary evolutions of city life--congested as it is--will be ample and cleanly public accommodations for intestinal relief. Americans in general suffer from dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, uric acid, etc.--all of which disorders are symptoms of that world-wide disease, proctitis: inflammation of the anus, rectum, and often the colon. Nor is it any wonder that unwashed humanity suffers from proctitis and its consequences. The unwashed have no bath-tubs and practically no water-closets. This lack is due to the tax on water facilities, to expensive plumbing, and to too much “science” and not enough common sense among our city fathers. As a consequence of ignorance and inconvenience, most people defecate but once in twenty-four hours; and very many but once in two or three days or a week. The once-a-day stool is frequently scanty, and as a consequence the kidneys, lungs, and skin are called upon to perform the vicarious function of eliminating a portion of the daily excrement; and the colon and sigmoid flexure have to hold the stored contents unduly--until the feces be expelled by purgatives or by the irritation that the accumulated mass occasions. Could the members of the Board of Health and the people at large be brought to a realizing sense of the value of personal cleanliness,--internal as well as external,--bath-tubs and water-closets would abound in our homes.