Evening journal., 1909-07-29
TELL HOUSEWIVES
TO fight FLIES
Health Board Warns People
Against Disease Spread
ing Insects

PHILADELPHIA, July 29-co-oper-
ating with the health boards of other
cities which are conducting a cam
paign of education whereby the mon
ace to health offered by the common
househy may be avoided, the Depart
ment Of Public Health and Charities.
in its weekly talk to the people. iii
reefs its attention to the consideration
Of simple and effective methods Of
fighting the fly. In its bulletin the
department says;
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 insects
known to men.
Flies are the flthiest Of all vermin.
They are born in filth, live in filth and
carry filth around with them.
Flies are known TO be carriers OF
millions Of death-dealing disease
germs. They leave some of these germs
wherever they alight.
May Infect Food.
Flies may infect the food you eat
| They come to your kitchen or to YOU
dining table from the garbage box
| from decaying animal or vegetable
matter or from the contagious sici
room with this sort of filth on thei
feet and in their bodies. and they de
posit II on your food.
Files may infect YOU with tubercu
losis. typhoid fever. scarlet fever diph
liberia and other infectious diseases.
How to Get Rid Of Flies.
Screen your windows and doors d.
il early, before fly time. and keel
screens up until snow falls
Screen all food. especially milk. d.
not eat food that has been in contac
with flies
Screen the baby's bed and keep file
away from the babys bottle, Tn
baby's food and the baby's "comfor
ter"
Keep flies away from the sick, espe
cially those in with typhoid fever
scarlet fever. diphtheria and tubercu
losis. Screen the patients bed. XII
every fly that enters the sick room.
Catch the flies as fast as they ap
pear. Use liquid poisons. sticky Il.
paper and traps.
Place either of these fly poisons II
shallow dishes throughout the house
Two teaspoonfuls of formaldehyde to
pint of water. or one dram of bichro
mate of potash dissolved i'm two ounce
of water. sweetened with plenty q
sugar.
To quickly clear rooms Of flies. bur
pyrethrum powder or blow powdere
black flag into the air of the ROOF
with a powder blower. This cause
flies to fan to the floor in stunned cor
dition. They must then be gathere
up and destroyed.
Eliminating Breeding Places.
Sprinkle chloride of lime or keroser
over contests Of garbage boxes. Kee
garbage receptacles tightly coverel
clean the cans every day, the box'
every week. Keep the ground aroun
garbage boxes clean.
( Sprinkle chloride of lime over o.
! paper, old straw and other refuse {
q like nature.
e Pour kerosene into the drains. Kee
c sewerage system in good order, repa
all leaks Immediately.
Clean cuspidors every day. Keep
per cent. solution of carbolic acid
= them all the time Get rid of sawdui
boxes used as cuspidors-destroy thei
they're unsanitary.
Don't allow dirt to accumulate
corners. behind doors, back of radif
tors under stoves, etc.
Il Allow no decaying matter OF an
n sort to accumulate on or near yol
premises.
Flies i'm the home indicate a carelel
" housekeeper. Remember. no dirt
II flies.