REMEDIAL MEASURES; CREMATION 6$ 



and the maggot stage is the opportune period wherein 

 the fly plague is most obviously open to attack. 



In all town and suburban parishes a house to house 

 collection of domestic refuse and garbage must be 

 made, not weekly, but bi-weekly in summer, and the 

 material must be cremated in a dust destructor furnace 

 within a few days of its collection ; thus neither larvae 

 nor pupae therein would survive ; no alternative 

 disposal otherwise than by cremation should be 

 attempted. Furthermore, and above all else, only 

 refuse collecting bins of an authorised pattern should 

 be employed. Contrary to the prevalent idea these 

 should not be fly-proof and not have air-tight 

 covers ; they should freely admit air all round 

 and should encourage the access of breeding flies. 

 They should stand preferably in open daylight places 

 and should be egg-traps for flies which, thus encour- 

 aged, would hardly ever deposit their eggs elsewhere ; 

 the result would be that all maggots and pupae would 

 be inevitably cremated. 



It may be objected that, if open dust-bins are used, 

 house-flies after visiting the same may return to the 

 house and subsequently contaminate food in the larder. 

 There will be such a possibility, but the danger thereof 

 can be minimised, and would in fact be nearly auto- 

 matically cured, as prospective fly progeny perished. 

 Furthermore, there are circumstances which indicate 

 that the said danger would not be great, and anyhow 

 nothing comparable to the baneful effects which are 

 now endured. The worst germs are not those of 

 newly discarded food remnants ; the commonest and 

 well-known bad smelling germ of ordinarily " tainted " 



