The House Fly 
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drained, with improper sanitary arrange- 
ments, pigsties close to the house, etc., etc., 
there you have the paradise of the fly. 
Badly kept streets, dirty farmyards, stable 
drains and manure heaps are the places 
where the fly abides. The unceasing 
attempt of the larvae of the house fly to do 
our scavenging for us, when we fail to do it 
ourselves, is a silent but obvious reproof 
of the dirty habits of men. Nature in 
her kindness would show us that it is 
detrimental to man’s health to have about 
him dead and decaying matter, excrements 
of animals, and all that is unsightly and 
impure — these minute heralds of the laws 
of sanitation, which man is so slow to learn, 
have been for ages at work. They are 
perhaps too small and too silent in their 
work for most men to observe, so the mature 
insect in the form of the fly comes buzzing 
in our ears and tries to wake us up in 
louder tones. 
In crowded thoroughfares no nuisances, 
in the form of stables, or kennels, should be 
allowed which are not thoroughly treated 
with a preparation, capable of killing all 
larvse, at least once a week. All manure 
2 — (2267) 
