FIGHTING THE FLY.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14836, 29 November 1913, Page 6

FIGHTING THE FLY.

(Published by the Anti-Fly Publicity Committee.) Swat the manure-pile. The flies have not gone out on strike. If sonic people were- as much afraid of flics as they are of bad water there would bo less sickness. A fly has small feet, but a million typhoid germs can ride on .them quito comfortably. Disease germs multiply more rapidly in milk than almost anywhere else. Beware of the milk into which a fly has fallen. First rescue the fly, then get a good microscope & n d examine him carefully, then drink the milk—if you feel like it. A man from Oamaru has lately been in the city with a device for killing flies. It is a narrow tin shelf, fastened in a window and holding a shallowtrough of tin against the pane. A few spoonfuls of kerosene in this trough nroves fatal to almost every fly that "alights on the window. The fumes overpower the fly, wnich falls into the kerosene; and the kerosene and flies may be used in lighting the firo thus destroying the germs which they were carrying. One sometimes -wonders if local bodies do not consider the sanitary bylaws a huge joke. For instance, in one of the boroughs, Trithin a chain or two of the main thoroughfare, is a i heap of stable manure that far exceeds I tho limit of one cnbie yard allowed by the law, and has lain undisturbed for many .times tho one "week which the law allows.