A PLEA FOR THE FLY.
The New South Wales Board of Health is heading a crusade against that all too familiar domestic pest, the fit- In a re " cent number of Popular Mechanics, an American publication, there is an article on "The Other Side of the Fly Question," in which, though he does 'not deny that flics breed disease, the writer bids us note that they do so simply by transporting the germs on their feet. . If there were no germs to transport the fly would be harmless. If we should find bacilli on our children, he says, we would not exterminate the children, but set ( out to find the spot where the bacilli came from and clean it up. In like manner wo are told that our task should be to hunt up the fly's breeding-place, and, if it proves to be also a breeding-place of disease, purify it. It may even bo, the writer thinks, that if we kill off all the flics as possible diseasecarriers without attending to the sources of the disease that they carry, a worse thing may happen to us. If the fly were exterminated, supposing that were possible, it would, he argues, tend to upset the balance of Nature, and result in some greater plague.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15094, 10 September 1912, Page 8
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