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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2309, 30 September 1908, Page 1

The district health officer for Auckland, Dr. Purdy, has forwarded tho following letter to the City Council: — “Owing to the dangers, more especially from flies and dust 1 would suggest that a by-law bo brought in making at compulsory for all food ,sucli as milk and meat, to bo sold in shops which have closed windows, to prevent flies gaining access to the meat. Tho butchers themselyer have evidently not yet realised in Auckland the full extent to which flies are responsible for contaminating meat. In many countries now all meat is rigorously protected from flies. I am firmly of the oponion that the last epidemic of typhoid was mainly spread by their agency. lam informed that in Wellington, since tlio leading butchers put up modern establishments, with glass fronts, the meat has kept much better, and that in a city where there is so much wind as in Wellington i>eople are no longer served Tvitb meat which is coated with dust.

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