One of many signs put up in the United States (this one at the Philadelphia docks, where first world
One of many signs put up in the United States (this one at the Philadelphia docks, where first world war soldiers were returning home) banning spitting in 1918. These laws and notices were created as a reaction to the Spanish Flu pandemic – spitting was seen as a vector for infection. -- source link
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