Abstract
A CASE of considerable interest to owners of land, to entomologists, and to public health authorities, has recently been heard in the Sheriff Court of Paisley. The pursuers, the Committee of the Upper District of the County of Renfrew, craved the Court to find that there exists upon the lands of Muirend, in the Parish of Cathcart, a nuisance within the meaning of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, in that certain ditches are so overgrown with vegetation that the flow of water therein is impeded and they have become breeding-places for mosquitoes. Complaints were received from a considerable number of residents in the houses within about five hundred yards of the Muirend estate that they had suffered severely as the results of mosquito bites, medical treatment having been rendered necessary in a number of cases. The pursuers therefore held that the ditches are βin such a state as to be a nuisance, or injurious or dangerous to health,β and they craved that the defender (the owner of the land) should be required to clean out the ditches and to do such other things as may be required for the removal of the nuisance complained of. The mosquito in question is Anopheles bifurcatus.
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[News and Views]. Nature 119, 934β938 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119934a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119934a0