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by affording him and his tribe no inducements to stay. 

 In rural districts, householders should allow no kitchen 

 refuse or other organic material to decay in the vicinity of 

 a dwelling, nor permit the malodorous compounds of the 

 stable, pig pen, cow yard, and poultry house to accumulate 

 in an exposed condition. In cities, householders should 

 burn every particle of kitchen refuse and garbage in the 

 range so far as practicable, and remove all decaying or- 

 ganic matter from the premises, and thoroughly cleanse 

 cellars and waste pipes. The accumulation of festering 

 filth in the streets, and of nauseating barrels of garbage, 

 should not be permitted, or their prompt removal facili- 

 tated. The cellars and back yards of all tenements (used 

 in a technical sense) should be subject to frequent period- 

 ical visitation by a sanitary inspector with power to order 

 removal of filth in his discretion. No slaughter house or 

 kindred business should be maintained within the city 

 limits, and, what is most important, the keeping of every 

 stable should be either prohibited entirely or else confined 

 to a certain locality, and cleanliness and the daily removal 

 of the accumulations enforced under stringent police or 

 sanitary regulations. The disappearance of the house fly 

 under such circumstances would be an insignificant item 

 compared with the decrease in the prevalence of deadly 

 and contagious fevers. 



To banish the mosquito, drain meadow, bog, swamp, 

 and marsh, fill up stagnant ponds and pools, and level 

 rain holding hollows contiguous to dwellings, and in the 

 same proportion as the foul murderer of sleep departs, so 

 will malarial and miasmatic exhalations. 



