48 HOW TO REDUCE FLIES 



attack on fly-larvae in one part of a town and to leave 

 others, or to rid one stable of its flies while the loose- 

 box next door is breeding the insects in myriads. 

 There must be a general and sincere co-operation 

 carried out under the patronage of the local district 

 councils and at the instigation of the local authority. 

 The assistance and sympathy of the local press, the 

 local influential persons, the mayor and corporation, 

 the large property owners, the clergy, the doctors, the 

 schoolmasters, the tradesmen must be gained, and the 

 project will go through with a will. Then it will 

 require little or no increase in the rates people need 

 not be asked to pay, but to assist by refusing to allow 

 flies to breed on their premises. If every one does his 

 or her share the cost will be trifling and all difficulties 

 soon overcome. This is the keynote of all sanitary 

 success general co-operation. 



Fly-reduction requires organisation it must be kept 

 up regularly throughout the town. This is not a very 

 difficult matter in urban districts. But in rural dis- 

 tricts such organisation is not so easy. The inhabitants 

 of villages consisting of scattered houses, farms, and 

 labourers' cottages are less capable of concerted action. 

 There is often only one sanitary inspector, whose duties 

 are spread over a large area, and he is one of many 

 similar officials under one county medical officer of 

 health. Here private enterprise is of great service. If 

 one landlord interests himself in the saving of child- 

 life he can do a great deal in assisting the local 

 authority. Let him convene a meeting of his neigh- 

 bours. They can form themselves into an anti-fly 

 association, and they can soon obtain the necessary 

 fly-reduction in the parish by influencing their tenants 

 among the parishioners. An important landlord can 



