The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-19
Tie hOU>E FLY
SOME RULES FOR PROTECTING
PUBLIC AGAINST ILLS.

Precautions Needed to Guard the
Public Health-Easy Enough TO
do If You VIII do it.
The following interesting and val
liable circular is being sent out by
the merchants association commit
tee of New York.
Flies are the most dangerous in
sects we have. They are much more
Fdangeaous than 'bees Or hornets;
these may sting you, and the sting
Is painful, but you soon get over
the pain. Flies do much more harm
than this. They walk over filthy
places like sewers and garbage cans,
and after eating which they find
there, they come into your house
and walk on the food and eat, car
rying on their feet the tiny germs
which live in filth just as you live In
house. These germs are not only
filthy and disgusting, but many Of
them cause such diseases as ty-
phoid fever, cholera infantum and
summer complaint. When the flies
bring them from some dirty places
to your food or leave some of them
when they crawl on your face or
hands, you may swallow these germs
without knowing it, and be taken i'll
with one Of these diseases. So the
fly that seems so harmless may do
you much more harm than a bea
or a hornet.
Your parents should place screens
at their doors and windows during
the warb weather, to keep the flies
out Of the house. If they cannot
screen all the rooms they should
screen those in which food Is kept;
and if anyone is sick in the house,
flies should ge kept from the sick
room, so that they may not carry
germs from the sick person to the
rest of the family.
Children may help to keep flies
from swarming in and around hous-
es and from carrying germs of sick
ness from one person to another.
In the first place, they should not
buy candy, fruit or other food which
oeirs left in front of stores or any
where else where flies may feed an ..
walk on it. Flies lay their eggs
chiefly in stable manure and If this
is left without screens or other co.,
ers to keep the flies away great num-
bers will be hatched in every sta
BILE. If you know of stores where
food Is not covered from flies, or of
stables that have swarms of them
around, get your father or mother
to write to the Board Of Health
about them and the Board will make
the store-keepers or stable men obey
it's rules. But before you report
other people for being careless and
dirty and so making it possible for
flies to become a nuisance, be sure
that your own house Is clean, and
that no garbage cans or boxes are
left uncovered to attract fles.
If you and all the people you
know will follow this advice, there
will not be nearly so many flies to
plague you in hot weather, and there
will not be nearly so much sickness
and death, especially among chill
dren, as now.
Keep the flies away from the SICK
especially those i'll with contagious
diseases. Kill every fly that strays
into the sick room. His body is
covered with disease germs.
Do not allow decaying material
of any sort to accumulate on or near
your premises.
All refuse which tends in any way
to fermentation, such as bedding,
straw, paper, waste and vegetable
matter, should be disposed Of or
covered with lime or kerosene Oil.
Screen all food.
Keep all receptacles for garbage
carefully covered and the cans clean
ed or sprinkled with oil or lime.
Keep all stable manure In vault
or pit screened or sprinkled with
lime, oil or other cheap preparation.
Cover food after meal; burn or
bury all table refuse.
Screen all food exposed for sale.
Screen all windows and doors, es-
pecially the kitchen and dining
room.
Don't forget, If you see flies, their
breeding place is in nearby filth.
1t may be behind the door, under the
table or in the cupboard.
If there is no dirt and filth there
will be no flies.
If there is nuisance in the
noighhorhood write at once to the