FLIES AND DISEASES
$ LBCTCKB BY PROFESSOR KIRK. At tho Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last evening an interesting lecture was delivered by. Professor H. B. Kirk, under the auspices of the Workers' Education Association, on the subject _ o! "Flies and Disease." Professor Kirk stated that tho common fly was guilty of tho greatest of sins against mankind, and lie outlined some of the different groups and how they were distinguished. Tho common house itv, ho said, was only 'capable of taking liquid food, and was nut so much of a. disease-carrier as somo of the other . Hies, although it was very bad. They carrfed disease in many different ways, one of them being by means of tho hairs which covered all their bodies, and another by taking food from n bad substance, and by means of a peculiar way of blowing bubbles they have, discharging diseuse.carrying matter on to food, etc. He wont on to speak of stable (tot) Hies, which were one of the worst kind of Hy disease-carriers, and of the manner ili which thoy affected horses, and also of flies in connection with the South African war, quoting reports from different commissioners. The conditions did not apply in New Zealand as they did in Africa, where the winter killed the flies in great numbers. In New Zealand'after a cold frosty night the flies would be seen later in the-day coming forth from under tufts of grass or any warm place. Much and convincing evi. dencc had been gathered to show that llies were distributors of cholera, scarlet i'over, and tuberculosis, and the jiroofs were good as regarded typhoid. At this point in the'lecture a fow lantern slides were shown of different parts of the fly, and were oxplained by tho professor, the principal being that of the stable fly, which, ho said, it was thought was one of tho main means of conveying tho infantile paralysis germs. At the end of his leotuTo tho professor invited anyono in the audience who desired to ask questions, and a few took the opportunity of doing so. A. hearty Vote of thanks was accorded the lecturer.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2823, 14 July 1916, Page 6
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357FLIES AND DISEASES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2823, 14 July 1916, Page 6
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