Flies
Flies are nobody’s friend; and the Health Department’s campaign against them in the Christchurch health district deserves full support. The campaign aims to inform the public of the need for ' controlling flies and of means to do so, both by keeping houses free of flies and by attacking flies in their breeding-places. It applies to bloW-flies, horse-flies, and sand-flies as well as to house-flies. The main problem in Christchurch, as the district medical officer of health (Dr. L. F. Jepson)
and his supervisory inspector of health (Mr J. B. Snoad) have said, is the breeding of house-flies in garden rubbish heaps and compost heaps. To achieve any great reduction in the number of flies, the cooperation of all home gardeners in taking much more care with their garden waste seems essential. That may not be achieved in one short campaign. Because flies are a serious menace to health, the department should mount annual campaigns—and open them earlier in the summer.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30364, 13 February 1964, Page 12
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