Healthiest Communities

Announced last week--by the American Public Health Association and the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.--as the most enviable U. S. communities from the standpoint of health, were:

(cities of 500,000 population and over)

Detroit Baltimore

Milwaukee Pittsburgh

Chicago Buffalo

(cities from 250,000 to 500,000)

Cincinnati Toledo

Rochester, N. Y. Minneapolis

Newark Dallas

(cities from 100,000 to 250,000)

Syracuse Grand Rapids

}(tied) New Haven Reading, Pa.

Peoria Yonkers

Hartford

(cities from 50,000 to 100,000)

East Orange, N. J. Pittsfield, Mass.

Evanston, Ill. Charleston, S.C,

} (tied)

Pasadena, Calif.

Schenectady, N. Y. Lincoln, Neb.'

(cities from 20,000 to 50,000)

Brookline, Mass. Newburgh, N. Y.

Santa Barbara, Calif. Watertown, N. Y.

Santa Ana, Calif. West Hartford, Conn.

(cities under 20,000)

Lodi, Calif. Palo Alto, Calif.

Chestertown, Md. La Salle, Ill.

Shorewood, Wis. Peru, Ill.

New Haven and Brookline both held the same ranks last year (TIME, May 2). Twelve cities of last year's list have been dropped from the honor roll either because economies have hog-tied their health officers or because other communities have intensified their health activities and sur passed the failures. The twelve dropped cities are: Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Utica, N. Y., Harrisburg, Pa., Kenosha and Racine, Wis., Alhambra, Calif., Maplewood, Orange and West Orange, N. J., Monrovia, Calif.

Costs. A few dimes for each resident measured the difference between noteworthy communal health and run-of-the-nation conditions. The 38 healthiest cities averaged $1.44 expenditure per capita. Other cities averaged 89-c- per capita.

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