This article excerpted from p. 8 of the issue. Because its befouled body and legs may carry germs of typhoid and other diseases from infected filth to healthy persons.
Flies are the most active of all insects.
They eat practically all kinds of vegetable and animal matter and lay their eggs wherever they feed. They have hairy legs and little sticky pads on their feet which will take up hundreds of germs. A single fly is capable in this way of infecting human food. Flies normally begin to breed in June and July, the greatest activity in this respect being in the months of August and September. Flies are bred from eggs in twelve days in the warm weather.