The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07

el The downtown and tenement districts ] lare by no means the only offenders. "A ? downtown hotel whose name is known 3 lthe world over has the habit of keeping f lgaFbage and ashes in an opening under its 2 kitchen, and the place was in bad cond.- : ltion when viewed by the inspector. A 2 large family hotel on the upper west side l lis reported by another inspector as Tin alfilthy condition; corridor where goods are delivered piled full of ashes and rubbish lof all kinds furniture and garbage piled : high; many complaints"
 ,ll N the suburban district, or the small
 town, the situation is little different. Here the principal source of danger will
 be from stables and pigpens. The latter should be of course absolutely prohibited, and indeed usually are but the law is not always enforced. The former should
 either be cleaned out once week. or
 where the removal or cleaning is thor Ioughly done. twice a month; or the man lure should be thrown into large boxes or lsmall rooms which are thoroughly screened and made hy-tight and provided with a swing door through which the Imanure is thrown. This involves little Dinltial expense, but is well worth It to the horse owner himself, to say nothing of hss Deighbors, If only In protecting hix
 horses from the greatest plague of the \ year. annoyance by flies. Where removal
 or screening doesn't seem to be feasible, watering down of the manure heap once Ia week with q solution of ordinary whife arsenic. or paris green. a teaspoonfuI to t tne gallon, or sprfnkling the pile So as to give q slight bloom to the surface. wffh ettner or these dry, will kill ninety uer
 cent of all eggs deposited.
 I ihis Is more objectionable than tha otner methods, inasInuch as It involves
 But this Is slight and is practicaIly con
 nned fo the possibility of cattle on inc
 tsarm tsm 70 which the manure is hauled get uhg at IT and eating some of the lesa spoiled straw or hay In the mass. If
 SDesnt aoS ro destroy its value as fertilizer in
 spray of about one-fifth this strength is idlrectiy used upon apples and other frnif
 10 prevent the development of the codiina moth or apple worm with few or no m. iJuTsohs results to those eating the apples .l 1T vaults are permitted to exist in fhe snburbs they should be sprinkled once a . week with either the solution or inc dry ] powder of arsenic as described This is not so much to prevent flies breeding in mem mem as II IS to poison them when they l iaftempt to feed there, as the contents If the privy vault are one of their favorife and most highly reIished foods if K .ss ns, account of this charming habit and pref \ erence of theirs that they gre 60 effective n the spread of typhoid and summer Edlarrhoeas transferring the baciIli from the stools of one case to the milk. yeae- tables or other food to be eaten bv fhe next The fly breeds in dirt, feeds on niLh and plays over our food and faces I Last of all, in regions like small villages. ! the open country or camps, where no pub ! lic sanitary precautions are taken. flIe ' best methods are, first, to see that the garbage and swill are emptied at least levery other day, that the hogs and chick ems to which they are fed are kept at least
 two hundred yards away from the house lin summer@ time, and that the places
 where the garbage or swill cans stand are mOistened down cnce a week with an arsenic solution. Both pigpens and chicken yards are fruitful sources of fly pr0duc- tion, but must for the present, probably, be regarded as necessary evils, to be re- dueed merely to their lowest minimum by keeping them at proper distance from the house and by thoroughly raking over and cleaning up their surfaces, burning any
 unused refuse and sprinkling the ground
 with creosote, crude petroleum or kero- sene at least once a week. Chicken yards lare not such sources of infection as pig
 pens, for the reason that the chickens are
 exceedingly fond of the lnryao or mag
 gots, and will scratch for them ener-
 getically in any filth breeding places to (which they have access.
 Where in such communities or camps the garbage cannot be removed at least
 every other day, or there Is no available filth eating animal to which it can be fed,
 To simple but effective plan is to dig trench lat distance of one hundred feet or more
 from the house. throw these waste mate
 rials into 1t, sprinkling them thoroughly
 twice week with either solution or the
 lpowdered arsenic, and cover over daily
 with a thin coating of the earth which
 Ihas been taken out of the trench. When
 the trench is filled to within six inches
 lof the surface, sprinkle on a couple of
 handfuls of arsenic. shovel over the re-
 maining soil and nature will take care
 of the rest. The use of the arsenic will
 prevent the development of maGgots and
 the daily coating over with earth will
 absorb objectionable odors.
 The only drawback to this method Is
 that it involves some risk of poisoning F pro wiling dogs, cats and other animals
 that make the round of the garbage ldnmps. But this, from a sanitary point 5 of view. is rather blessing in disguise than otherwise, for animals of this hlthy . habit are a constant menace to the health , and comfort of the community, dragging
 old bones and pieces of decayed meat ana
 offal all over the gardens and grounds,
 burying them just sufficiently deep to fur |, - then leaving them.
 That this is far from being a mere counsel of perfection can be heartily at- tested by scores of sanatoria, summer lcamps, summer hotels, villages and sub- urban districts which have put the plan into operation and as 6 consequence been practically rid of flies and all the pestl- fences which follow in their train. When it is remembered that the fly is now } known to be actively engaged in the spread of typhoid. tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, blood poisoning, plague and Iintiuenza and to he the principal agent T concerncd-as shown by the report of DF. Il Daniel D. Jackson in his study of flies along the water front last summer in the : conveyance of intestinal diseases of in- fancy and childhood, which claim five thousand or more victims in New York
 every summer-it will be seen how well ! worth while is the small amount of ex- pense and care and cleanliness which is necessary to rid us of his presence. All
 of these precautions would be amply re-
 warded by simply getting rid of the buzz
 ing. biting, speck depOsiting, sleep dis
 turbing. badness pHnishing fly even were
 he as innocent as a babe unborn of the IdiRsamiuaf fiOn 0f uinuuaS and DeSfilpneaa