"SWAT THAT FLY!"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2904, 17 October 1916, Page 4

"SWAT THAT FLY!"

NEW COUNCIL BY-LAW.

At the meeting of the Health.Committee of the City Council yesterday ! there was a free discussion on .flies, fleas, and. mosquitoes, and their relationship to the spread' of infantile paralysis. Councillor. M'Kenzie holds the strong belief that thp fly is not the guilty party, inasmuch; as a. person has to be infected with the-virus of this awful disease, and the fly is a "sucker," not a "prober." The popular "probers" are the flea and the mosquito, and both existed in Wellington more than most people were aware. Councillor M'Kenzie was not inclined to condemn the flea for this frightftilness, for, strange to relate, there had been no cases of infantile, paralysis from the more crowded portions of the city last summer and autumn. He indicated that his suspicions pointed to the mosquito. . A few years ago —before the Main Trunk railway was built —such a thing as mosquitos in the houses in Wellington was unknown. Now they appear each February and March regularly—big, healthy, hungry fellows. These wore, ho thought, the deadly carriers, just as they carried, the vims of yellow fever in the Panama zone, before they were scientifically dealt with. The, mosquito is, an. established purveyor of all sorts of {rightfulness, and. Councillor .M'Kenzie warned all.people to swat the mos r quito as well as thp fly early and lato. 'At the committee meeting it was decided: "To pass a resolution (by way of special order) adopting the Wellington city by-law (fly nuisance) —"to provide for the suppression of the fly nuisance in the city in connection with manure in or about stables or, other premises," . That proposal will be. considered at THursday's meeting of the council. ■