FLIES AND TYPHOID.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 5 October 1911, Page 2

FLIES AND TYPHOID.

In a paper on “The House Fly and •its importance in the spread of Ty'phoid Fever,” read before the Medical Congress in Sydney, Dr. C. S. Willis submitted a mass of epidemiological, bacteriological, and combined epidemiological and bacteriological evidence, pointing to a casual connection between flies and the transmission of typhoid fever. Dr. Willis grouped under four headings, the measures to be taken to. prevent transmission of typhoid, fever by flies: —(1) Prevention of access of flies to infected waterway ; (2) prevention of flies spreading; (3) destruction of adult flies; (4) prevention of food contamination by flies. To reduce the number of flies to a minimum, domestic and municipal cleanliness was absolutely necessary. All stable manure, kitchen refuse, old bedding, straw and rags, rubbish tips, and so on, should be so treated as to banish flics, blue oil or kcrosense should, be used in sanitary pans, and typhoid cases should bo kept under mosqiiito curtains. Fowls, it was .said, were fond of fly larvae, and if allowed free access to fly-breed-ing places, such as manure and garbage, they would aid in fly destruction by eating the. larvae. The prevention of food contamination was very important. All foodstuffs should bo kept, covered. Ask for the famous Roslyn Writing i’ads.*