CHAPTER XIII 

 A CAMPAIGN OF EFFECTIVE WARFARE 



Several authors of recent books, and lately also able 

 lecturers, have done much to awaken people to a realisa- 

 tion of the dangers of our ever recurrent summer plague 

 of flies. The advent of the petrol motor-car and other 

 automobile vehicles has at the most but very slightly 

 improved the state of affairs within town areas, where 

 mews were formerly much more numerous. The 

 public press has followed suit, but something more in 

 the way of a sustained effort for hygienic reform is 

 desirable. The terrible European war should not pre- 

 clude consideration of the subject, for the scourges of 

 fly-borne contagion have ever followed armies and 

 rivalled the casualties of the very battlefield. Bands 

 of enthusiasts everywhere should keep going a verit- 

 able anti-fly campaign as one of the most urgent needs 

 of practical sanitation. Otherwise active support of 

 the cause will soon languish and be obliterated amongst 

 the multitudinous ever-changing questions of the day, 

 political and other, which, as newspaper editors are 

 persuaded, have the attention of the public for the 

 time being. In spite of the incontestible prospects of 

 universal benefit it may not be easy to engage a large 

 body of public support without something like an 

 organised propagandist movement. 



If any readers of this booklet are disposed to join 



