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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The result of these experiments shows that the most useful
substance for ordinary household use would be the paraffin and soft
soap mixture, and if this were sprayed over the refuse in dust
bins it would largely prevent the development of house flies.
It is important that the refuse should be thoroughly saturated
with the mixture, otherwise all the larvae will not be destroyed.
Spraying the contents of the dust bins daily with the paraffin
mixture prevents the flies from laying their eggs in the refuse, but
it is hardly to be expected that every householder would carry this
out systematically during the summer.
The daily removal of all house refuse during the summer months
only would be a most satisfactory solution, and although it would
add to the cost of collection, I am of opinion that the health and
comfort of the community would be much benefited thereby.
In all the deaths under one year from Diarrhœa and Enteritis,
special inquiries were made, and the following Tables show the
nature of the food given.