CHAPTER VIII 



THE ORGANISED ANTI-FLY CAMPAIGN 



IN the preceding chapters the beginning of the anti- 

 fly campaign has been described. It remains to place 

 the crusade on a permanent footing, to convert it into 

 a routine sanitary measure, and to continue it as an 

 established organisation for the prevention of disease. 

 The fly-inspectors will have compiled a complete fly- 

 directory and will have considerably reduced the total 

 number of fly-lairs and also the total number of flies. 

 Incidentally, the public has become educated to the 

 necessity of fly-reduction and will be in a receptive 

 mood for more complete measures for the permanent 

 reduction of flies and the diseases they carry. The fly- 

 inspectors should be given assistance and their labours 

 extended farther afield. At first two men should be 

 appointed under each inspector. These men should be 

 recruited from the permanent scavenging service, and 

 thus each district of the anti-fly campaign will be 

 served by a permanent gang consisting of one inspector 

 and two workmen. These men must be under the 

 orders of the inspectors and must assist them in carry- 

 ing out the work. Each fly-gang should be supplied 

 with a cart for the removal of rubbish, manure, refuse, 

 etc. A hand-cart is useful at first, but if necessary, and 

 if funds will admit, a horse-drawn cart is more service- 

 able. The weekly inspection will go on as before, but 



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