CHAPTER XI 

 CONTROL WITHIN THE HOUSE 



Many minor plans have been proposed for obviating 

 or alleviating the perils and plague of invading fly 

 swarms ; several such plans may be well carried out on 

 a private domestic scale, but one cannot expect any of 

 them to be adopted universally. In domestic methods 

 people will prefer some one plan, some another, whilst 

 some will not personally aid in the work of fly 

 destruction in any single way perseveringly. This 

 latter circumstance emphasises the necessity of a 

 dominant control by local authority for the safeguard- 

 ing of all inhabitants, including the delinquents them- 

 selves in spite of themselves. 



The plan, as detailed in the last chapter, of enticing 

 breeding females to lay their eggs within depositories 

 of discarded food remnants and garbage, can be 

 practised on a smaller scale with great advantage every- 

 where. Kitchen refuse of many kinds, not neglecting 

 potato and turnip parings, cabbage leaves, or even 

 tea leaves, should all be collected in brown paper bags, 

 which should be left open for a few days in suitable 

 places round about the house for the free access of 

 gravid female house-flies. Every such collection 

 should be cremated on the third day. In a paper, read 

 at a recent congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute, on 



