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attention to cooperative health work. In Russia, such organizations were 

 springing up all over the land before that country became submerged in 

 its present chaos. 



2. Conduct a health publicity campaign. 



3. Teach better sanitation in the schools and organize the children 

 for clean-up work. 



4. Require the screening of all stores selling food, and of all hotels 

 and restaurants dispensing food. Do not allow food to be handled in 

 such a way that it will attract great quantities of flies. 



5. Require private stables to place manure in fly-tight boxes and 

 to have same removed every 7 to 10 days. 



6. Require livery stables to remove all accumulations of manure 

 daily from the town limits. 



7. Require the burning, feeding or removal of all garbage twice a 

 week from homes and daily from hotels. 



8. If garbage is hauled away and dumped the town should arrange 

 for its daily incineration. 



9. Require throughout the town limits, depending upon conditions, 

 either sanitary plumbing and sewer connection, or sanitary box or pail 

 privies. Do not allow pit privies or insanitary ones of any type. Do 

 away as soon as possible with open sewer drainage, installing sewer pipe. 

 Install sewage septic tanks of size adequate for the town. If there are no 

 sewers laid it may be possible to arrange for individual installation of 

 simple septic tanks. 



10. Do not allow pigs and chickens to have access to privies. 



11. Do not permit general roving of pigs, stock, chickens, etc., on 

 the town streets. 



12. Keep all ditches and waterways in the town free of obstruction, 

 and if mosquitoes are breeding, have an oiling squad. 



13. Fix strict penalties against defecation on streets, alleys, and 

 vacant lots. , 



14. Install a town comfort station for strangers and people from 

 the country. 



SANITARY PROBLEMS OF CITIES 



The sanitary entomological problems are multiple in large cities, and 

 such that it would be an excellent practice to employ at least a consult- 

 ing entomologist in all large cities. As a matter of fact many cities 

 should have quite a corps of practical sanitary entomologists engaged 

 primarily for this type of work. 



City markets where meats, fish and all kinds of vegetables and produce 

 are exposed for sale, are very attractive places for flies, and in many 

 large cities there is gross neglect along these lines. 



