FLIES AND DISEASE.
'ln a recent lecture at Duivedin, Dr Chamitaloup discussed .some disease .Jbacteria Which flies carry and the disI ei*ses„,tibey give rise to. Among t'Hese I were'•tuberculosis and various" parasitic diseases. One authority stated that in the United States of America' ■there died annually, 49,000 babies under two years df age as a result cif in- * testinal affections due to. flies. In 1 many of the large .towns of Great Britain ithe infantile mortality per aunuim< was ifu-om 100 to 150 or more per 1000 babies born, and infantile diarrhoea.'played' atargeVpart in' this .enoi:--.mouis, wa»3te'of 'chiM life.. On cqmpa'rin>g "the- figures ifor 'New '■Zealand during the 'last 10 year's 'we find that 'the'' average proportion, of death of infants under one year of .age to' every 1000 jbirthis was 71.9, while in England and Wales it was 109.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10653, 7 June 1912, Page 4
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140FLIES AND DISEASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10653, 7 June 1912, Page 4
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