Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — FLIES DECLARED A NUISANCE [ARTICLE]

FLIES DECLARED A NUISANCE

English Judge, Ruling Officially, Ordered the Cleaning Up of a Breeding Place. Qaeth aeutenew wee pamiAd on the fly by an English judge in a recent eaee at Upper Hal Ilford, Bun bury. Tbe sentence came In the form of an tejanetten against the keeping of a •lack of manure, which was a breeding place for the peet, and assessing [the coat against the defendant A

story in the Star the other day told of the trial. In which the plaintiff protested against his neighbor’s maintaining an alleged nuisance dear the former's home. Expert testimony was called In the case to prore that the fly is a menace to health aa well aa a destroyer of comfort. Several specialists said that flies breed readily in piled up manure and generally remain within a fear yards of their breeding place. How flies are an especial menace to small children in summer by carrying the

germs of Infantile enteritis and endanger the health of all by spreading typhoid-, germs was related. The Judge spoke of the annoyance caused the plaintiff by having to put up screens to keep out the flies. In England flies arfe not so generally troublesome as here, and when they do exist In swarms the nuisance Is all the more noticeable. A count of the annual rings of a California redwood tree Indicated that it began its career in WO A. D.