The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-07-09

The National Health authorities
have issued a valuable health circu-
lar which has the following good adj
vice regarding how to keep healthy
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food
especially milk.
tolerated. J
Don't eat where flies have access
to the food.
Flies are the most dangerous In
sects known to man.
Flies are the filthiest oS all vermin.
They are born in filth, live on filth
and carry filth around with them.
Flies are known TO be carriers Of
millions of dealth- dealing disease
germs. They leave some OF these
germs wherever they alight,
Flies may infect the food you eat.
Flies may infect you with tubercu-
lOsis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
diphtheTia and other infectious dis
eases. They have the habit OF east
ing on tuberculosis spUtum and other
discharges of those sick with these
diseases. and then go direct to your
food, 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 null
t1ply very fast, therefore milk should
never be exposed to flies.
What to Do to Get Rid of Files.
Screen your windows and doors. Do
it early before fly time and keep Ihs
: screens up until snow flies.
| 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 bRby's bottle, tbs
/ babys food and the babys comfort
! er."
! Keep flies away from the sick, es-
| pcCialIy those i'll with typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, diphtheria and tubercu-
/ lOsis. Screen the patieat's bed. Kill
every fly that enters the sick room.
ard Immediately disinfect and dis.
rose of all discharges.
! Catch the flies as fast as they APP
peSr. Use liquid poisons. STICKY fly
papers and traps.
/ Pace either of these fly poisons in
shallow dishes through the house:
(a) Two teaspOonfuls Of fOrmalde-
hyde TO pint of water, or
/ Cd one dram of bichTOmate of pot
ash dissolved in two ounces o. wa
/ ter sweetened with plenty OF sugar.
| L quickly clear rooms OF flies, b1rn
py"ethTum powder or blow powdered
!
with a powder blower. This causes
flies to fall to the floor in a stunned
condition. They must be gathered AZ
aGd destroyed.
| eliminate Breeding Places Of Files.
| SprinkIe chloride of lime or kCTO-
seEc over contents of OuthOuscs and
garbage boxes. Keep garbage receD-
taCIes tightly covered, clean the cans
every day, the boxes every week.
Keep the ground around garbage box
eS clean.
Sprinkle chloride Of lime over ma
nure piles, old paper, old straw and
other refuse of like nature. Keep ma
ln1:re in screened pit or vault if posi-
bic
Pour kerosene into the dra:rE.
Keep sewerage systems in good or
der repair all leaks Immediately
CI6an cuspidoTs every day. Keep
five per cent solution o. carbOlic acii
in Them all the zine. Get rid of saw
! st boxes used as cuspidors. Destroy
itnem-tLey're unsanitary.
Io,n'L allow Girt TO accumulate -
corners, behind doors, back of radi-
ators, under stoves, etc.
Allow no decaying matter OF any
sDrt to accumulate on or near your
lpTemises.
Flies in the home indicate 4 care
less housekeeper. Remember: No
dirt, no flies.