Further reports (no. 4) on flies as carriers of infection.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Further reports (no. 4) on flies as carriers of infection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infection. Arthur Newsholme, Medical Officer, 11th May, 1911. 1.—An Experimental Investigation on the Range of Flight of Flies. By S. Monckton Copeman, M.D., F.R.S.; F. M. Howlett, B.A., F.E.S., Second Imperial Entomologist to the Government of India; and Gordon Merriman, Student in Medical Entomology, Quick Laboratory, Cambridge. As indicated by one of us (S.M.C.) in the Memorandum* to the Board of July, 1909, determination of the possible range of flight of flies is obviously of considerable importance in relation to the whole question of the carriage of infection by these insects. A preliminary search of the available literature afforded but little accurate knowledge on the subject, and consequently arrange- ments were made with Professor Nuttall and Mr. Merriman of the Quick Laboratory, Cambridge, for the carrying out of a series of carefully devised test experiments, on a large scale, in accordance with the plan described and illustrated in Report No. 3 on “Flies as Carriers of Infection.” (New Series No. 40, pp. 45-47.) Unforeseen circumstances unfortunately prevented further prose- cution of this portion of our investigations at Cambridge, but, in the summer and autumn of last year (1910), opportunity presented itself for carrying out a somewhat similar series of experiments in Norfolk, the results of which are detailed below. The only previous experiments on similar lines, with the common house-fly, appear to be those carried out by Dr. Arnold at the * Reports to the Local Government Board on Public Health and Medical Subjects, New Series No. 16 ; Further Preliminary Reports on Flies as Carriers of Infection, 1909, see pp. 1-4. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from WYMAN & SONS, Limited, Fetter Lane, E.C.; or OLIVER and BOYD, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh; or E. PONSONBY, Ltd., 116, Grafton Street, Dublin. PRINTED BY DARLING and SON, Limited, Bacon Street, E. 1911. No. 53. Price \ Four pence. (19193—21.) Wt. 39691—1165, 1500. 6/11, D & S.