Public dances should undoubtedly be prohibited during epidemics. They not only present all the bad features of other public gatherings, but during the dancing people are brought in very close contact and often breathe directly into each other’s faces. In addition, air currents are stirred up and a certain amount of dust is raised. During the exercise the dancers breathe more rapidly and deeply, thus inhaling unusually large amounts of dust, droplets and contaminated air. Another feature is found in the “resistance-breaking” element of alternate overheating and rapid cooling of the body. _Regulation of Public Eating and Drinking Places_ Public eating places are a necessity and cannot be closed. People should be cautioned against using them as places of amusement and of congregation during epidemics. Boards of Health should feel it just as much their duty to see to the sterilization of dishes and eating utensils as they do to the enforcing of any other public health functions, and they should also insist on the daily inspection of the employees of such establishments. The beer saloon question may be passed over for the present, but the soda-water fountain as conducted during the 1918 epidemic was undoubtedly a great menace. Ice cream, syrupy mixtures, etc., of various kinds are readily contaminated by pathogenic organisms which may serve as secondary infectors, if in no other capacity. The syrups, moreover, adhere to the spoons and glasses, which are rarely thoroughly washed and are practically never sterilized between customers. The use of paper dishes and glasses is probably a step in the right direction, but the spoons should be thoroughly washed and sterilized. The fact that soda-water employees are not always selected for high-grade intelligence, and are generally left largely to their own hygienic procedures, makes the chances of transferring infections at these places enormous. If soda fountains are allowed to continue business at all during the epidemics, it should be only under the very strictest supervision by Boards of Health. The scalding of all utensils should be enforced by law. People generally should be cautioned to use exceptional cleanliness in the preparation of all foods in the home. In discussing the recent epidemic Lynch and Cummings (50) stated that “the mess-kit wash water proved the major route of transmission from sick to well in the army.” Vaughan said: “I am pretty certain, not convinced, that hand-to-mouth infection is of more importance than droplet infection.” _Regulation of Traffic_