The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-08-26
Let's Kill Out the Flies.

sects we have. They are much more
dangerous 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 wall over filthy
places like sewers and garbage cans,
and after eating the filthy food which
they find there, they come into your
house and walk on the food you eat,
carrying on their feet the tiny germs
which live in filth just as you live in
a house. These germs are not only
filthy and disgusting, but many of
them cause such diseases as typhoid
fever, cholera infantum and summer
complaint. When the flies bring
them from some dirty place to your
food or leave some of them when
they crawl on your face or hands
you may swallow these germs with
out 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 bee or hornet.
Your parents should have screens
at their doors and windows during
the warm 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 be 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
houses, and from carrying germs of
sickness from one person to anoth-
er. In the first place, they should
| not buy candy, fruit or other food
which is left in front of stores or
anywhere else where flies may feed
and walk on it. Flies lay their eggs
chiefly in stable manure, and if this
is left without screens or other covers
to keep the flies away, great numbers
will be hatched in every stable. 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 no garbage cans
or boxes are left uncovered to attract
flies.
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 80 much sickness and death
especially among children, as now.
Rules for Dealing with the Fly Nui-
| sance.
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 COW
cred with disease germs.
Do not allow decaying material of
any kind 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 cov-
cred with lime or kerosene oil.
Screen all food.
Keep all receptables 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 a meal; burn or
bury all table refuse.
Screen all food exposed for sale.
Screen all windows and doors, espe-
cially 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 ta-
BILE or in the cuspidor.
If there is no dirt and filth there
will be no flies.
If there is a nuisance in the neigh
borhood write at once to the board of
health or city council.
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