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TO PREVENT THE HATCHING OF FLIES
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We need not refer to all the efforts that have been made to remove
these drawbacks and to overcome deeply rooted habits, but it may
be well to mention some of the more recent attempts, especially
since 1914.
During the war, many of the villages in our department were the
scenes of fighting and destruction, and others were occupied by
the armies. In the latter, all the manure-heaps disappeared during
the war period ; this improvement was doubtless greatly helped by
the presence of the military authorities, the labour they had at
Figure 1. — Moivrons.
their command, the strict orders they issued, and even more by the
evacuation of a large part of the population and the considerable
decline in the number of live-stock.
When peace returned, people soon went back to their old ways,
and villages resumed their former appearance. The departmental
authorities then endeavoured to make a change both in villages
that had not suffered and in those which had been destroyed in the
war and were being rebuilt. The Prefect sent out two successive
circulars to the mayors of communes, on February 15th, 1922, and
August 1st, 1923, followed by an order concerning the disposal of
manure, dated December 31st, 1923. These circulars and order
laid down very full regulations for the disposal of manure, giving