I do not mean education in schools. They are largely due to a failure to insist upon the enforcement of the sanitary laws of cities and towns. If the officials had gone into the homes that have become so dilapidated and neglected and warned their occupants that they were creating a public nuisance. and had insisted upon the proper observance of laws on sanitation during the years that have passed. a period when a large number of recent immigrants came into this country. we would not now. in my opinion. be confronted with this problem in the proportions which It has assumed today. Unless we take action now. unless we see to it particularly that sanitary arrangements are provided and insisted upon we shall be called upon to repeat from year to year large expenditures to try to solve this problem. Mr.
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Immigrants are associated with unsanitary conditions and public nuisances.