The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-23
The Fly and Typhoid Fever
From The Journal of the American Medical Association
August 28, 1909.



The fly has from time im1nemora been endured
ary scavenger This scavenger necessary only to those
reasonable and adequate cleanliness While
the hand the fly pureyng substances the other
distributes material at least tubercuos
teria of cholera OF tetanus oachoa
certainly than coincidence that ant mortality great
amidst the unceanness obtaining many families among the
poor easily becomes with the flies
be the host for hundred thousand eal bacterial and
that the dyseneres diarrheas pt in the rare cases in
duced mechanically nervous OF mtrobc origin Here the
the intestinal disorders which dporaby frequent
among the botteed.
becoming manifest that the fly stands causative
ton typhoid fever We have been accustomed speak of
pod the autumnal fever Counting back months from the
fall in typhoid mortality to the beginning OF the ortnght
cubation the of prevalence of flies the
also that Of prevalence of daea disease both infant and
The time them when the fly active and
frequency Many persons have typhoid
the city from their vacations and tainted wells have
generally been blamed whereas possibly the we'll
has not been SO bamevorthy as the buebottle
fly OF contracting disease
than through this insect but that it formidable
and about stables the of animals beings
dust from dried urine and ece and the discharges of typhoid
decang vegetable matter especially when congenial
warmth and moisture coest Two hundred larvae have been
found inch of days will suffice for the develop
ment OF BROOD fifteen broods possible twelve flies
surviving winter reproduce during the following
The ys lite usually but few weeks; but live
dormant through the winter IN closets and the warm parts OF
three hundred FIVE hundred feet from its breeding
habitat indeed be close hand-n spoon
behind doors 1t IS them the wisdom these
especially all
doors and windows especially in kitchen and dningoom
or screen all ood particularly such uncooked only
homes but also IN hotels and markets Decayng
material should not accumulate dwelng fementable
retuebeddng straw waste paper etc. which be burned
otherwise destroyed should be with lime
OIL modern SYSTEM leaking exposed should
be maintained plumbing should be sanitary filtration effective
kerosene should be poured drains Nusances should
reported to health departments Where there dirt
filth there will be flies 1t suggested
simplest ker is weak solution OF formadehyd 1.-TWO
drains to the pnt this should be throughout the
dwelling Pyrethrum powder burned is also destructive of flies
The typhoid bacillus be carried from
and cespoo by flies and then deposited by them
water the infection be conveyed from pvs
through underground drainage into wells small lakes
visited by flies Howard would
used rural Districts the should be with
the vessel should be emptied daily where
drainage would not be dangerous Manure should be
pits or VAULTS (Which would be cooded by
dslnecants there should which
be shoveled away barrel should con-
stany hand from which each deposit of manure
sprnk1ed
Thus the breeding of flies prevented undoubtedly
Will not be until something like the effort has been made
arouse pubic the
When by iteration and reteraon the chain
connects flies and disease shall have become
when the housewife shall feel much horror finding
swarm OF flies at her back door she feels finding the
arlonen perhaps the day when flies will
be unknown in se1fespecng community
scavenger dogs those which the
OF sonstannope Even if the determination of the v should
mean much with relation disease the determination
OF the anophees has malaria the extinction of the
aopus for yellow fever in of the number of
tor which the fly is host certain immense gain
general health.