The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-09
SANITARY CONFERENCE.
INTERESTING SESSION AT CHAM
 FER OF COMMERCE HALL.
instructive Article bx Dr. Beitton on the House Fly-HcaIth Officer G. L. BeardsTey of Derby on Tuberculosis.

ehS AOWSS RAs-AASalth o4HceE "s He
 BeardsTey of Derby on Tuberculosis.
 The second days session of the health officials of Connecticut was held at the Chamber of Commerce hall yes- terday. Besides those taking part in the debates and work of the meeting there was also present many well known citizens who were interested in the work being carried out by the so- ciety. At the morning session Profess sor Brewer of Yale gave an interesting paper on Animals as Carriers of Hu- man Disease" Dissemination of Tu- berculosis by Railway TraveI' was taken up by Dr. Charles Dudley, chem ist of the Pennsylvania railroad. Forms of Food Adulteration and Their Relation to Public Health" by Dr. Jenkins, director of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment station; dis cussion and Medical Inspection of Schools" by Dr. Edward K. Root, con- cluded the session.
 The house fly and its relation to pulp lie health was the subject of a very in- teresting and instructive article by Dr. Britton of this city.
 Dr. gBritton spoke in part as follows:
 The past decade Is remarkable for the great advance which has been made in our knowledge of the spread of human disease by insects. In 8 pa- per before this conference year ago at Hartford l called attention to some of the insects known to transmit the germs of disease, and mentioned oth- CTS suspected of 1t. Chief among the former are the mosquitoes, which are responsible for the transmission of 1ha- laria and yellow fever. Since your last conference the yellow fever has been epidemic in New Orleans and vicinity. Over one thousand cases have occurred, with over five hundred deaths-a terri ble penalty to pay for failing to learn the lesson of Havana. Just such a scourge as this seems to be necessary in order to drive home to the people those facts about disease and it's pre- vention which might be learned in oth~ CT ways and at how much less a cost! But the people ridiculed the mosquito idea; they did not believe it. Now they stand before the world convinced, and the experimental proof of careful sci entific men and methods has been con- firmed.
 As carriers of diseases, insects-yes, even flies, may be said to belong to two classes; CD Those which, like the mo- squitoes, are definite hosts of the micro organisms or germs causing the dis ease; and (2) those which transmit the germs mechanically. To the second class belongs the common house fly. So far as is known this insect is not an essential host of the germ of any human disease, but as it visits, and even breeds in, all sorts of foul places, and also frequents the kitchen and din- ing-room, and crawls over the food, there Is great danger that it may carry mechanically the germs of enteric dis eases, like cholera, dysentery and ty- phoid fever. Moreover, it has been shown that the causative germs of some of these diseases may be and are taken into the digestive tracts of the house fly and deposited in the food or other substances. Thus the tiny fly specks which are the bane of every housekeeper, may be positively danger ous.e r