ENTOMOLOGY

NEEDS OF ENTOMOL9GICAL SANITATION IN AMERICAattention to cooperative health work. In Russia, such organizations werespringing up all over the land before that country became submerged i~its present chaos.~. Conduct a health publicity campaign.S. 'I'each better sanitation in the schools and organize the childrenfor clean-up work.4. Require the screening of all stores selling food, and of all hotelsand restaurants dispensing food. Do not allow food to be handled insuch a way that it will attract great quantities of flies.5. Require private stables to place manure in fly-tight boxes andto have same removed every 7 to 10 days.6. Require livery stables to remove all accumulations of manuredaily from the town limits.7. Require the burning, feeding or removal of all garbage twice aweek from homes and daily from hotels.8. If garbage is hauled away and dumped the town sho1;1ld arrangefor its daily incineration.9. Require throughout the town limits, depending upon conditions,either sanitary plumbing and sewer connection, or sanitary box or pailprIVIes. Do not allow pit privies or insanitary ones of any type. Doaway as soon as possible with open sewer drainage, installing sewer pipe.Install sewage septic tanks of size adequate for the town. If there are nosewers laid it may be possible to arrange for individual installation ofsimple septic tanks.10. Do not allow pigs and chickens to have access to privies.11. Do not permit general roving of pigs, stock, chickens, etc., onthe town streets.l!. Keep all ditches and waterways in the town free of obstruction,~nd if mosquitoes are breeding, have an oiling squad.IS. Fix strict penalties against defecation on streets, alleys, andvacant lots.14. Install a town comfort station for strangers and people fromthe country.SANITARY PROBLEMS OF CITIESThe sanitary entomological problems are multiple in large cities, andsucn that it..would be an excellent practice to employ at.least a consultingentomologist in all large cities. As a matter of fact many citiesshould have quite a corps of practical sanitary entomologists engagedprimarily for this type. of work.City markets where meats, fish and all kinds of vegetables and produceare exposed for sale, are very attractive places for flies, and in manylarge cities there is gross neglect along these lines.,qS9