The Fly Nuisance

A CORRESPONDENT writing about the fly nuisance in the city points out how for the sake of small economy the municipality continued the practice of filling up low-lying vacant lands with rubbish which served as feeding ground for flies. The fly nuisance in Delhi was considerably abated by a systematic burning of the sweepings and rubbish of the city, and if a similar practice were adopted in other Municipal towns by establishing rubbish incinerators, there would be considerable improvement in public health and flies would abate. In the words of an eminent author, “it has been proved over and over again the nothing is so costly as disease and that nothing so remunerative as the outlay which augments health and in doing so augments the amount and value of the work done.”