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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 18

AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE NZ DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH DOWN but not out _ Millions upon millions of FLIES are waiting to take the place of the one just killed. weren't enough, his built-in The fy has a short life but 4 radar detects the movement of merry one. Flies believe in your arm as it comes in to get large families. It's nothing to him. Mrs: Fly to produce I20 eggs in a day and repeat the per THE ANSWER: Kill flies formance four to SiX times where they breed before they during, her life of a few weeks- have a chance to reproduce Meantime, her fickle mate iS millions of progeny; just one on the wing again for another of which can carry on its tiny fly-by-night conquest. body, over 3,000,000 bacteria, and can spread over a flight FACTS ABOUT FLIES. Did area of 5 square miles, scores of you know that a fy flies at infectious diseases: Some of onky 42 miles an hour or these are tuberculosis, diar- about the pace a horse walks 2 choea, food poisoning, un Why then is he SO maddeningly dulant fever, conjunctivitis, hard to swat 2 summer sickness IT dysentery, Because he has four thousand typhoid, etc: lenses for eyes : he's slicker His filthy habits of vomiting than a jet plane he can fly and constantly passing liquid rapidly sideways; and, as if that waste, menace health: 13.7 Remember the use of insecticides is no substitute for the simple precautions everybody can; and should take, against the fly _ through cleanliness, the Proper disposal of house and garden gar bage, and through keeping food covered: NEVER use insecticide spray where food is exposed: 18