The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-07-30

'ollowing matter printed with the !,
picture story. One of the posters can
De seen in the Blackfoot post office.
Speaking Of Flies
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food
especially milk.
Don't buy foodstuffs where flies are
tolerated.
Don't eat where flies have access to
the food. ".
Flies are the most dangerous in
sects known to man
Flies are the filthiest of all yermin.
Tey are born in filth, live on filth and
carry filth around with them. They
are maggots before they are flies.
Flies are known to be carriers Of
millions Of death-dealing disease
germs. They leave some Of these
germs wherever they alight. IN
Flies may infect the food you eat.
They come to your kitchen or to your
dining table, fresh from the privy
vault, from the garbage box, from
the manure pile, from the cuspidor,
from decaying animal or vegetable
matter, or from the contagious sick
room with this sort Of filth on their
feet and In their bodies, and they de-
post 1t on your food, and YOU DO
swallow filth from privy vaults, ETC.,
ETC., If you eat food that has come in
contact with flies.
Flies may infect you with tubercu-
losis, typhoid fever, sacrlet fever,
diphtheria, and other infectious dis
eases. They have the habit Of feast
ing on tuberculosis sputum and 9th
er discharges of those sick with these
diseases, and then go direct to your
food, to your drink, to the lips of
your sleeping child, or perhaps to a
small open wound on your hands or
face When germs are deposited in
milk they multiply very fast; there
fore milk should never be exposed to
flies.
What to do to get Rid of Flies.
Screen your windows and doors.
Do 1t early before fly time and keep
screens up until snow falls.
Screen all food, especially milk. Do
not eat food that has been in con
tact with flies, screen the baby's bed
and keep flies away from the babys
bottle, the baby's food and the baby's
comforter"
Keep flies away from the sick,
=, especially those i'll with typhoid fever
scarlet fever, diphtheria and tubercu-
losis. Screen the patients bed. Kill
every fly that enters the sick room.
Immediately dsinfect and dispose of
all discharges.
Catch the flies as fast as they APP
pear. Use liquid poisons, sticky fly
papers and traps.
Place either of these fly poisons in
shallow dishes throughout the house
(a) Two teaspoonfuls Of formalde-
hyde to pint of water, or (b- one
dram of bichromate of potash dis
solved in two ounces of water, sweet
ened with plenty of sugar. 4.
To quickly clear rooms of flies,
burn pyrethrum powder or blow
powdered black flag into the air of
the room with a powder blower. This
causes flies to fall to the floor in stun
ned condition. They must then be
gathered up and destroyed
Eliminate Breeding Places of Flies.
Sprinkle chloride of lime or kero-
sene over contents Of privy vaults and
garbage boxes. Keep garbage receipt
acles tightly covered; celan the cans
every day, the boxes every week. Keep
tn ground around the garbage boxes
clean.
Sprinkle chloride of lime over ma
nure piles, old paper, old straw and
other refuse of like nature. Keep ma
nure In screened pit or vault If pos
sible. Manure should be removed at
least every week.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Keep sewerage system in good roder,
repair all leaks Immediately.
Clean cuspidors every day. Keep
5 per cent solution of carbolic acid
in them all the time. Get rid of saw
dust boxes used as cuspidors- destroy
them-they're insanitary.
Don't allow dirt to accumulate in
corners, behind doors. back of radi-
ators, under stoves, etc.
Allow no decaying matter of any
sort to accumulate on or near your