FIGHTING THE FLY.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 7

FIGHTING THE FLY.

(Published by the Anti-Ply. Publicity Committee.) The Anti-Fly Committee lias been supplied with a quantity of posters, calling attention in a graphic way to tho danger of allowing ilics around dwelling houses. Any person desiring copies of these posters to put up waore they will do good, may have them by writing to Box 590. • ! The pictorial border of this poster is one which was, first drawn for th<> Florida State Board of Health, depicting the fly's progress from its dinnertable to the dinner-table of people. The reading matter on the poster is a.a follows:— '■-..- Don't allow flies in your hepso. Don't permit them near yotir rood— ©specially milk. .. '• . Don't buy foodstuffs where iflios. arc tolerated. : Don't eat where Sio« havo access.to t]io food. - Flies Are among the most dangerous insects known to man. Flies are tho filthiest of all vermin. They are born en filth, live on filto, ninl carry filth around with thorn. They are maggots beforo they are flies. Flics aro known fo bo carriers of millions of death-dealing disease ( sc«ns. They, leave some of these germs'where- :- ever they alljibt; " ; Flics may infect the food ycu *at. They como to the kitchen or dinnertable from ash-pits, mamirq reaps, decaying animal or vegntabio- -matter, from the sick room a,nd .jlsuwliero with all sorts of filth on their lent, and they deposit it on so tbac you: may bo constantly eating filth from these places. ■ . All food, and especially milk, should be screened from flies. When germs are deposited on milk they multiply at an enormous rate. Do not eat food tiiat has been, contaminated by flies. Flies may infect you with consumption, , typhoid fever, diphtheria, and other infectious diseases. After feasting on sputum from consumptive per- ; eons and the discharges from pereoav suffering from infectious diseases -, flies, may go direct to your food, to your drink, to the lips of your sleeping child,, or perhaps to a small open wound on your hands or face. HOW TO GET KID OF FLIES. Catch the flies as fast they appear. Use liquid poisons', sticky -fly-papers and traps. '■ "' . ' . Wace either of these fly poisons . m shallow dishes throughout the house. Two teaspoonfuls of formaldehyde solution to a pint of water, or one drain of bichromate of potash dissolved ■,■ in two ounces of water, and ; sweetened with sugar. ;" x ' :'. Do not allow dirt to accumulate m corners, behind doors, or on ledges. Allow no decaying matter to accumulate near your house. ' ELIMINATE THE BREEDING PIECES OF FLIES. Sprinkle some good disinfectant over the contents of dustbins; keep the bins tightly covered, clean them, once a week. Keep the' ground round the bins clean-. , . * ' ' Sprinkle some good disinfectant over manure heaps, old paper, old straw and other refuse of like nature. Manure should bo removed at least; once a Pour some good disinfectant into tho drains. Keep drainage system tin good order and repair all leaks immediately. Flios in the home indicate a careJeflS housekeeper. REMEMBER: NO DIRT—NO FLIES..;