To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Darcy News."
Sir,—I trust that you: will find space to insert the following in the hope that the Health Department of the Municipa) Council will read, learn, inwardly digest and act, so that. their merited reputation for looking after the welfare of the community of this Settlement may be further acknowledged, extolled and rewarded.
T would suggest that the Health Department enforce a rule on all bakeries and confectioneries who cater for the foreign trade to provide their establishments with fly catchers of some sort or ancther, to be place] all over their establish. ments, and also in the windows ere cakes ete., are exhibited for These fly' catchers to be effective and, if mechanical, to be kept clean, T wanted to buy some cakes this afternoon irom a foreign shop, but on looking into the window, I could not decide upon a choice of assortment owing to batches of fat flies monopolizing my attention, and on trying the window next door, T saw a Chinese assistant busy with a feather duster, those of the right serviceable kind as used in all Chinese households, hitting flies who fell down dead wherever they could, with whom, in sympathy, came down all the dust and germs or microbes which the duster picked up all over the shop during its matutinal employment in cleaning up the shop. I could not regale my little ones with cakes to tea. English, French, Japanese, Russian and Swiss papers, please copy. Chinese newspapers are especially requested to do so. am, ete., Papa.
Shanghai, Sept. 5.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.