CHAPTER XII 



SANITARY EDUCATION, FLIES, AND THE COMING 

 GENERATION 



IN the foregoing pages measures have been described 

 which are directed chiefly against flies breeding in 

 horse-manure. But it must always be remembered 

 that house-flies are attracted by, and will often lay their 

 eggs in, all kinds of filth, including waste food. The 

 housewife, therefore, can greatly assist the organisers 

 of the fly-campaign by constant vigil concerning the 

 cleanliness of her house. If every citizen always kept 

 his or her house in order there would be no insanitation 

 and no flies. At Cardiff the municipality has made 

 enormous strides in the housing of the poorer classes 

 miners and dock-labourers and have given them 

 sanitary cottages to live in. The streets and the 

 exteriors of these model dwellings are all that could 

 be invited, but the interiors of many of these houses 

 are grossly unclean. The poorer inhabitants are not 

 sufficiently educated in sanitary matters yet. Personal 

 cleanliness is as important as municipal sanitation. 

 We can all do our small share in fly-reduction by 

 attention to the details of hygiene, and by not allowing 

 flies in our houses or fly-larvas on our premises. If we 

 were all to keep our establishments clean sanitary 

 cleanliness flies would neither enter our houses nor 

 be able to breed near them ; then fly-campaigns would 



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