That the people are coming to favor taxing themselves for public
measures to control tuberculosis is indicated by a referendum vote on
the establishment of a county tuberculosis hospital in eight towns of
St. Lawrence county, New York. The public health committee of the board
of supervisors failed to draw up a question to be voted upon in all the
towns of the county as instructed by the board. But eight town
supervisors took an informal vote on the question. The question carried
in all eight towns. The ballots stood more than three to one in the
affirmative. This is the first time that this question has been
submitted to a vote of the people in New York state. Three of the towns
are distinctly rural and only one of the eight communities is a city.