"SWAT THAT FLY!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 18, 22 September 1913, Page 4

"SWAT THAT FLY!"

The American campaign against tin domestic house-fly is being waged jus! now with a ferocious zeal which excites the wonder of the European visi tor, and entails daily enormous lossesin the ranks of the winged pests, wi'ites a New York correspondent. Edu calional work amongst the children is being enlarged, and in many of tinschools photographs of the fly, greatl\ magnified, are shown by means of tin cinematograph, and the fly's wanderings from the garbage-heap where typhoid lurks to the family's roast joint, where he is shown wiping his feet realistically. The idiotic nursery-rhymes which failed to apprecite the diseasebreeding character of the fly, and conjured the children to treat him with respectful consideration, have been banished from the American nursery rhymes, the Board of Health instructions telling you how to "swat the fly" are now circulated, and public opinion is being aroused everywhere, so that the great work of extermination now proceeds apace. As a result of the campaign, scientifically conducted, American houses to-day are usually as destitute of flies as mosquitoes. All fly-breeding matter in the gardens, front or rear, is removed, and each window screend with wire netting of the smallest mesh. In a few years it is believed that flies in American cities will be practically extinct. Today in the streets of New York 100,000 picture cards bearing the inscription : "If you love your-home, swat that fly," have been gratuitously distributed, with the request that they glial] be framed and displayed.