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ing degree the attention which is now being paid to. 
the house fly and its near relative Musca entconiata. 
More or less definite proof of the connection between 
flies and enteric fever is given again and again and 
great attention has been paid to the question of latrines. 
For example, Lieut. Col. F. W. C. Jones (1907) uses 
the following phraseology: “Believing as we do that 
flies are the chief carriers of enteric fever in India, any 
plan which gets rid of them is worthy of considera¬ 
tion.” And then the author proceeds to discuss the 
relative merits of incineration of excreta and other 
plans. Of course the officers of the army have con¬ 
trol over their camps, but in India great difficulty has 
been experienced in enforcing the proper views upon 
high-caste natives. 
Colonel Jones, in the article just cited, found a cer¬ 
tain line of reasoning very useful, not only with high- 
caste native officers but with men on maneuvers. This 
consisted in an explanation of the meaning of the word 
kakophagy, which, being translated from the Greek, 
means excrement-eating. Colonel Jones writes. “I pre¬ 
sume no one wishes to be a kakophagist; yet we are so 
in spite of ourselves, if flies bred in filth pits alight on 
our food just before we eat it.” The high-caste officers 
at first looked upon sanitary measures as being only 
meant to worry them, but Colonel Jones got several of 
them together and to the best of his ability explained 
that men who took no precautions in camps to prevent 
the breeding of flies must of necessity be kakophagists. 
He found that this appealed to them most strongly, and 
