Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — State Board of Health Prepares Fly Ordinance. [ARTICLE]

State Board of Health Prepares Fly Ordinance.

In furthering its warfare against the housefly in its effort to prevent the spread of disease by the pests, the state board of health has prepared a sample ordinance which is being sent to all the cities and towns of the state with a request that it be placed on the ordinance books and enforced to the letter. Speedy response is requested in order to make the ordinance effective through the latter part of July, August and the early part of September, when danger from the housefly is at its hight. The principal provisions of the proposed ordinance declare that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to maintain any of the following conditions, all of which are held by the state board to be fly-producing and disease-caus-ing: Animal excretion in any quantity when not properly protected from flies, closets, vaults, cesspools, pits, or like places not thus protected; garbage in any quantity not so protected; trash, litter, rags or anything whatsoever in which flies may breed or multiply. The proposed measure makes it the duty of the chief of police and health officers to enforce the provisions of the measure.