SWAT THAT FLY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17107, 31 March 1921, Page 5

SWAT THAT FLY.

I LECTURE BY DB. THOMPSON. I The house-fly peril was tho subject of a lecture given by Dr. A. C. Thompson at last night's meeting of the Chris tchurch Ambulance Division. The house-fly, he eaid, was, by Teason of lU anatomy end rapid cevelopment, a moet potent disease-carrier. It could not breed- except under special conditions which existed mainly where decayed refuse ci apy kind was kit; to stagnate. The germs of certain epidemics, such as cholera, typhus, and infantile diarrhoea,. and even of ccfisuinption were carried by the fly and there was good reason to believe that it also carried the sparillart. of infantile paralysis. Dust-bins and rubbish heapa ware potent breeding grounds, and it was therefore necessary that- they ehonld reoedve attention at ka6t twice weekly. f j*o *peak of the housefly as "harmless," said the lecturer, was a dangerous fallacy. There should be & more vigorous campaign of extermination. H* mentioned several methods. but the best of all) he eaid, was simply to follow up the old slogan, "Swat that fly!" He stated that too much faith was placed in certain well known diiinfectanta. his'opinion, etirbolio or kerosene was th? bc&t disinfectant to use against flies—the others really onlv attracted them. *

On the motion of Superintendent Erio Gray,*, vote of thania to the lecturer was oamed 07 acclamation,