Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-06-17

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rital brought the same investigator upon
horse putrefying IN the sun, covered
with a black mantle of flies In Mulberry
BEND Park al eleven o'clock Sunday morn
ing heap Of refuse was observed Of such
dimensions rs To suggest that IL was ths
accumulation of more than one dsy: II
lay directly opposite a large public school.
At the Fourteenth street station Of the
subway is an Illustration Of a hygienic
project gone wrong. Under the iron graf
ings which have there been let into the
roof of the subway through the sidewalks.
with the laudahle purpose Of ventilatipa
the tunnel, have been placed corrugated
iron shields These are thickly covered
with dust compounded horse pnan,Tre
Sputum and the miscells neous deposits OF
the street filth which are scraped from
the shoes OF pedestrians as they cross the
gratings Not only may flies breed in
great numbers in these specially prepared
quarters, but they win find In the I'M
mediate Reghborhood n number of restau-
rants and fruit sands as an Inviting feld
FOR their germ carrying operations.
The downtoVn and tenement districts
are by no means the only offenders A
downtown hotel whose name Is known
the world over has the habit of keeping
ggrbage and ashes il an opening under its
ton when viewed by the inspector A
large family hotel Oh the upper west side
IS reported hv another inspector as 'in
hlthr condition.: corridor where goods are
delivered piled full of ashes and rubbish
o. aH kinds furniture and garbage piled
high; many complaints"
\ the suburban district. or the small
town, the situation 20 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 ara hut the law IL
not always enforced. The former should
either be cleaned out once a week. or
where the removal or cleaning Is thor
oughly done, twice a month; or the man
ure should be thrown into large boxes or
small rooms which are thoroughly
screened and made fy-tight aud provided
WIN a swing door through which the
inahhre Is thrown. This involves Httla
lHitial expense. but Is we'll worth II 10 ths
horse owner himself, to say nothing Of
ms neighbors, If only in protecting his
,."Is'N from the greatest plague Of the
year, annoyance by flies Where removal
't screening doesn't seem to be feasible
. week with solution OF ordinary white
"tSehlc or paris green. teaspoonfuI to
'ee EaHoh, or sprinkling the pile so as To
give sHght bloom to the surface with
"tner OF these dry, win kill ninety pay
cen OF all eggs deposited.
iHs - more Objectionable than tha
"'"Sl methqds inasmuch as it Involves
y .Ptialh amount of risk Of poisoning
ifut this il slight and is nrneticsiiy cots.
nneu 10 The possibility of cattle ON ths
"'iH 10 Whlch the manure Is hnulad Get
t"S az ana eating some of the less
5pu''H straw or hay in the mass. II
ISL destroy ITS value as fertilizer In
'a way ia fact, MS is well known. a
spray Of about oue-ffth this strength =
lily used upon apples aud other fruit
& ~ prevent the development of fha rodIiug
NON or apple worm with fe,g or no In.
/ JuTtoas results 10 those eating the armies.
II suults are permitted to exist In the
week with either the solution or the drv
powder OF arsenic as described. This Ia
NOT so much TO prevent flies breeding IN
/ 'heh as II IS to poison them when thew
attempt 10 feed there. as the contents ~
aiae trNE N9uIi are one Of their favorits
ana most highly relished foods. II 10 al,
4 "v'onht Of inns charming habit and pref
tteHg' OF theirs rhat they are SO effective
ID lie spread Of typhoid AMI summar
WaIIhpeaS, transferring the baciHi from
" STOOLS 81 one case to the milk veVe-
tabIts or other food 10 be eaten bv Fhs
next. The fly breeds in dirt. feads ON
]" 81 ana pays over our food and fnees
Last Ut all IN regions like small ,,illayea
ne opell country or camps, where no nah
! ~ sanitary precautions are taken. ths
nt@i methods are, FIRST, to see thai the
garbage and swim are pmutied a, iea az
every other day, that the hogs and chicg-
eng to which they are fed are kept AZ least
TWO hundred yards away from the house
III summer time, aud that the places
/ where the garbage or swill cans stand ara
Ihotsltned down c9Ce a week with AN
arsenic solution. Both pigpens and chicken
yafdA are fiuitul sources Of rs prOduc-
i"u, but must for the present. probably.
be regarded ms necessary evils to be re-
duced merely to their lowest minimum by
keeping them al a proper distance from the
muse and by thoroughly raking over and
cleaning up their surfaces burning any
unused refuse and ~prinKling the ground
with crcoSOte, crude petroleum or kerO-
stEe at lehst once a week. Chicken yards
are not such sources OF infection as pig.
pens, for III" reason that the chickens are
RoiS. and will scratch for them ener-
geticaIly in any filth breeding places to
which they have access.
That this is far from being "A mere
counsel of perfection can be heartily at
tested by scores of sanet0ria, summer
CAUtTJ%, summer uultlh, villages ana buD~
urban districts which have put the plan
into operation and as a consequence been
practically rid of tles and all the pesti-
iences which follow in their train. When
il is remembered that the Hy = now
known to he actively engaged il the
spread of typhoid. tuberculosis diphtheria,
scarlet fever, blood poisoning. plague and
influenza and 70 be the principal agent
.oncerued-as shown by the report Of Dr.
Daniel d. Jackson in his study of flies
long 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 viii be seen how well
worth while is the small amount Of ex-
pense and Gaze 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 depositiug, sleep dis
turbing, badness pnldshiug fly even vera
he as innocent as a bsoe unborn Of the
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