ADVANTAGES OF FLY-REDUCTION 11 



lives would be saved, for there would be no enteritis. 

 This would mean the saving of money, for, as will be 

 shown later, lives mean money to the nation, and also 

 much misery would be avoided. Yet the measures 

 suggested are merely those of ordinary sanitation an 

 efficient sanitary scavenging service. But until the 

 public realise the importance of domestic flies and 

 the part they play in producing disease and death, the 

 measures against flies will not be generally undertaken 

 as a routine even by modern sanitary authorities. If 

 every one could be induced to take an interest in their 

 own healths, their lives, and those of their children, flies 

 would soon be reduced to a negligible number even 

 during heat-waves and in tropical countries, where this 

 pest abounds more than at home. 



Flies in a town, village, or house should be regarded 

 as a sign of insanitation, and their numbers as a measure 

 of that insanitation. Fly-reduction is a beneficial 

 measure. < 



1. It means a saving of life and therefore of money. 



2. It reduces sickness, sorrow, misery. 



3. It results in a riddance of a pest. 



4. It entails a better sanitary inspection, the dis- 

 covery of insanitary conditions and places. 



5. It improves our knowledge of certain diseases. 



6. Its cost is small. 



Since it is generally agreed that it is the duty of 

 every one to prevent disease, it is obviously the duty 

 of every one to prevent, or at all events to reduce, the 

 dangerous domestic flies which produce disease. 



