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Show BUZZARDS MENACE HEALTH Coast Towns of Mexico Find That Carrion Birds Folluto Their Water. San Antonio, Tex. Thoro Is nn ngl-tntion ngl-tntion now on In tho coast towns of Mexico to eliminate the vultures. Mexico, Mex-ico, llko most of tho states of America, has cherished the carrion crow or turkey tur-key buzzard and n lino is imposed for killing those birds. Thoy wcro assumed to bo great sanltnry agents. But experience ex-perience hns shown tho peoplo of tho hot Innds whoro those rcpulslvo fowl3 nro numbered by tho thousand In every vicinity, that tho water supply Is often contaminated by tlio fowls. In Port of Spain tho birds havo boon slaughtered by tho thousand this spring nnd their bodies formed into nn Immense funeral pyre. Tamplco, Mexico, Is tho pioneer of tho Mexican In the movement to kill tlio vultures. That city Is Infested by tho fowls to nn extent that Is not equaled by any other Mexican coast city. Sanitary experts thero havo reported re-ported that Instead of being a public benefactor as a scavenger tho vulturo has become n public nulsnuco nnd a mennco to tho health of tho community through tho water supply. It Is hold by tho exports who havo framed an appeal to tho national legislature legis-lature that the birds bf? removed from tho protection of tho laws, that only under primitive conditions nro thoy of any benefit ns scavengers. Where dralnago Is unknown nnd filth ts scattered broadcast tho sanitary experts ex-perts say tho buzzard holps. But when modern conditions prevail tho buzzard becomes a menace. |