I WONDER if many residents have noticed an increase in the house-fly population since the council's edict made us all maggot-farmers with new bins.

It is reasonable to link an increase in these vectors of disease with the presence of masses of rotting organic matter in imperfectly sealed containers.

Such a consideration would not, alas, have occurred to our council officials, since, as one of them admitted at the time, no medical advice was taken before maggot breeding was made mandatory.

What next? Shall we be ordered to conserve rainwater?

It would certainly be a "first" for Wycombe District Council if it succeeds in reintroducing malaria as an indigenous disease of this country.

G L W Bonney, Wooburn Green