Show BUZZARDS MENACE HEALTH Coast Towns of Mexico Find That Carrion Birds Pollute Their Water San Antonio Tex There Is an agitation agi-tation now on in the coast towns of Mexico to eliminate the vultures MexIco Mex-Ico like most of the states of America has cherished the carrion crow or turkey tur-key buzzard and a fine is Imposed for killing these birds They were assumed to bo great sanitary agents But experience ex-perience has shown the people of the lot lands where these repulsive fowls are numbered by the thousand every vicinity that the water supply is often contaminated by tho fowls In Port of Spain the birds have been slaughtered by tho thousand this spring and their bodies formed into an Immense funeral pyre Tamplco Mexico Is the pioneer of the Mexican In tho movement to kill the vultures That city is Infested by the fowls to an extent that Is not equaled by any other Mexican coast city Sanitary experts there have reported re-ported that Instead of being a public benefactor as a scavenger tho vulture bas become a public nuisance and a menace to the health of the community through tho water supply It is held by the experts who havo framed an appeal to the national legislature legis-lature that the birds be removed from the protection of the laws that only under primitive conditions are they of any benefit as scavengers Where drainage is unknown and filth ts scattered broadcast the sanitary experts ex-perts say the buzzard helps But when modern conditions prevail tho buzzard becomes a menace |