Have you ever stood near an Italian or Greek street vender, or have you ever been within five feet of a low-class Polish Jew? If so, the stench arising from his unwashed body must have nauseated you. It is no secret that such persons never wash--especially the latter, who live in rooms reeking with filth. Contemplating such conditions, I feel impelled to propose a great, nay, the greatest reform--one suggested years ago by Samuel Butler in _Erewhon_. Let us make Health the great civic virtue, and Disease, as well as unsanitary and unhygienic conditions, the crime. Our so-called crimes of theft, murder, forgery, etc., should be treated as weaknesses and faults to be corrected by Moral Rectifiers--by the preachers, priests, rabbis, and ethical culturists. Consider how much is implied in developing and breeding a race of healthy men and women. All relations of life would feel the vital change at once, and moral weaknesses would disappear. Any human cesspool entering a public conveyance, or in any way mingling with cleanly people, should be arrested, thoroughly cleansed, internally and externally, and sequestered for a time sufficient to teach him better. There is a local rule of the Board of Health against spitting, but it is rarely enforced. There are millions of public expectorations to one arrest. For the appearance in public of consumptives, and their offensive hawking, coughing, and spitting, no one seems to have suggested a remedy. All diseases should be classified as to grades of punishment; and all moral weaknesses, such as defalcations, adultery, burglary, should be treated at the various hospitals, which latter should be conducted solely by Moral Rectifiers. In closing, I shall direct attention to a few other points in personal cleanliness--the mouth, ear, nose, and throat. It is important on hygienic grounds that the mouth receive proper care two or three times daily. The ear is commonly kept clean; still there are many instances of non-refinement of this organ, and from its non-hygienic treatment deafness often occurs.