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38 BULLETIN jST. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. THE URBAN FLY PROBLEM. Under this heading are included all populations of such density that the flies produced in one person's horse stable may pester and endanger a neighbor's home^ or any community where there are several barns in four or five hundred yards of a number of homes. Under these conditions the fight on the fly should be directed against his breeding place. Stables should be so constructed as to permit the co7nphte removal of manure every two weeks between the middle of April and the middle of October. The word complete is the key-word to the accuracy of the last sentence. iSTow, the best way to get this done is, first, for the municipality to require a license for the maintenance of every horse stable, cow stable, or hogpen, and refuse to license stables that cannot be completely cleaned; second, to require the owner of such stables or pens to pay a sufficient license fee to compensate the municipality for cleaning the stables and pens. This fee would be very small, as the sale of the manure to neighboring farmers would pay a large part of the cost of removal. If the owner of the stable wanted to use the manure, he should be allowed to do so, (a) if he spreads the manure every four days on his land in such a way that the sun will thoroughly dry it, or (h) if he will keep the manure in a fly-tight bin. It is right and just that a municipality should protect the many from the annoyances, the unnecessary cost of screening houses, and the danger from flies produced by a comparatively few stable owners. The insuperable obstacle to this bit of idealism is that sacred, constitutionally guaranteed "personal liberty" of the microscopically visioned individualist. When the property rights of the few are in conflict with the human rights of the many, it ought not to be hard for men of intelligence and a fair amount of courage to decide the issue promptly and justly. However, there are municipalities where suitable regulations are more distasteful to the liberty-loving populace than the annoyance of flies and the sufl'ering from unnecessary sickness. Here the urban fly problem is very much the same as the rural fly problem, with this exception: the rural resident is annoyed by nobody's flies except his own; the urban resident usually suffers from the flies that somebody else produces. THE RURAL FLY PROBLEM. In the country it is impracticable to attack the breeding places of the ^ fly. The prevention of flies, therefore, is out of the question. The problem in the country is to kill the fly. The farmer cannot dispose of his stable manure every w^eek or twice a week. The application of the following remedies, begun promptly in May and persistently followed through the Avarmer months, will keep the rural home fairly free from flies: Remedy No. 1: Buy one pint of formalin from your druggist. It will cost you about fifty cents. Keep it tightly corked. Every other day add two tablespoonsful of the formalin to a half-pint of water; place the water, with an equal quantity of sweet milk, in saucers or plates, about the barn. A crust of bread dropped into the plate will
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-03: Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-028 |
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Language | English |
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Fixed Title * | Page 38 |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1913 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-028-0044 |
Form General | Periodicals |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 28 |
Issue Number | 2 |
Page Number | 38 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 38 BULLETIN jST. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. THE URBAN FLY PROBLEM. Under this heading are included all populations of such density that the flies produced in one person's horse stable may pester and endanger a neighbor's home^ or any community where there are several barns in four or five hundred yards of a number of homes. Under these conditions the fight on the fly should be directed against his breeding place. Stables should be so constructed as to permit the co7nphte removal of manure every two weeks between the middle of April and the middle of October. The word complete is the key-word to the accuracy of the last sentence. iSTow, the best way to get this done is, first, for the municipality to require a license for the maintenance of every horse stable, cow stable, or hogpen, and refuse to license stables that cannot be completely cleaned; second, to require the owner of such stables or pens to pay a sufficient license fee to compensate the municipality for cleaning the stables and pens. This fee would be very small, as the sale of the manure to neighboring farmers would pay a large part of the cost of removal. If the owner of the stable wanted to use the manure, he should be allowed to do so, (a) if he spreads the manure every four days on his land in such a way that the sun will thoroughly dry it, or (h) if he will keep the manure in a fly-tight bin. It is right and just that a municipality should protect the many from the annoyances, the unnecessary cost of screening houses, and the danger from flies produced by a comparatively few stable owners. The insuperable obstacle to this bit of idealism is that sacred, constitutionally guaranteed "personal liberty" of the microscopically visioned individualist. When the property rights of the few are in conflict with the human rights of the many, it ought not to be hard for men of intelligence and a fair amount of courage to decide the issue promptly and justly. However, there are municipalities where suitable regulations are more distasteful to the liberty-loving populace than the annoyance of flies and the sufl'ering from unnecessary sickness. Here the urban fly problem is very much the same as the rural fly problem, with this exception: the rural resident is annoyed by nobody's flies except his own; the urban resident usually suffers from the flies that somebody else produces. THE RURAL FLY PROBLEM. In the country it is impracticable to attack the breeding places of the ^ fly. The prevention of flies, therefore, is out of the question. The problem in the country is to kill the fly. The farmer cannot dispose of his stable manure every w^eek or twice a week. The application of the following remedies, begun promptly in May and persistently followed through the Avarmer months, will keep the rural home fairly free from flies: Remedy No. 1: Buy one pint of formalin from your druggist. It will cost you about fifty cents. Keep it tightly corked. Every other day add two tablespoonsful of the formalin to a half-pint of water; place the water, with an equal quantity of sweet milk, in saucers or plates, about the barn. A crust of bread dropped into the plate will |
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