PUBLIC HEALTH.
OFFBNSttVB TftAD«B AND MOSQTJITOBB Ofienaive totd* «*')*• "Jfjf 1 * nuisanoo were l i«*m MMM» «• Bv-laws and Works ObuuMM jithj Oiy Cotuncil and the M«aieal Office* of Health, and at last nighty meeting of the Council the Committee subnutted the following *W* * : —, t Ak The confetenco Was. held oil the 18th inst., wh«n Dr. Jjigjj Omcer of Healtb, u that the time kad arrived for the> WttlUg apart of fc soec-ial area in which tjgjj classified as offensive undef thO feauii AcTshould he confined Af-rdttjjujj-ina the matter fuUy, it was decided to recommertU the Council to convene m conference of all members of each body within, the metropolitan arfa. to con* sider the question of the advisability of settinK apart a special area in whien otfensive trades may be established m accordance with the recommendations of the Medical Officer of Health, the conference to tako place early in the new year. ■ . . The question„of the moßquito nmsanc | was also brought under the notice of the Medical Officer ol Health. Dr. Telford stated that it was a mistaken idea that mosquitoes bred only in cesspools, their habits being to lay eggs in fresh rain water Or f&ining: Streams. AU localities in which water was lying, should be drained and the dges of pools treatey by spraying the to with-kero-sene, liquid creosote, or cfUd6 oil. At liquid creosote is placed on the inside o£ window sills this will prevent the invasion of mosquitoes into .dwellings,. Mosquitoes do not travel far fiom their breeding places, 400 yarfls being conr sidered the inftxlnnim difttatic© they go. The report was adopted. •
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18571, 22 December 1925, Page 12
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