The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-01
WILL OGDEN JOIN IN THE
CAMPAIGN?


Will ogden join in the campaign
against the house fly? Other cities are
laying plans to rid the homes of the
disease conyeyor, but so far this city
has made no move in that direction.
The women, in their club work, should
consider this important question and
order a general cleanup in Ogden.
The North American of Philadelphia
Is leading the eastern movement for
the eradication OF the house fly and
that paper has brought to It's support
In this campoign several able writer's
ami patient Investigators. In late
issue that paper said:
There are three causes. not one,
of the 100000 cases of typhoid fever
in the United States every year, more
than 10 per cent of which prove fatal
The lever is spread through three
routes-water, milk and flies. Water is
responsible for the greater number Of
cases, but last years Investigations IN
New York City showed that there were
Coo deaths from typhoid and 1000
deaths from other intestinal diseases
that were traceable directly to diseases
spread through the agency OF flies.
And other diseases. the spread of
which is due largely TO the same in
sect enemy of man. are Asiatlc cholera,
dysentery and tuberculosis.
The latest belief Of science is that
1t is not the heat that causes the aw-
ful summer mortality among infants
and children. II Is the ny. and the
criminal carelessness Of man in fall
Ing to prevent the fly's birth.
In considering the 1y IL must be
greatly differentiated from the mos
quito. The mosquito IS deadly danger
Gus because 1t not only carries disease.
but breeds disease-bearing germs. The
oacilli of malaria and Of yellow fever
are bred in the body of the mosquito.
and 1t lnjects them into the punctures
it cuts in to the skins OF men.
The liy's sting" is less severe than
that of the mosquito, and II does not
breed the parasites OF disease in It's
body The fly's mode OF lnOculation is
generally By deposltlng the germs It
carries both inside and on the surface
OF its body upon the food that man
eats.
Bred in the filth of barnyards anJ
! city dumps, the house fy lives up 20
It's greatest possibilities as n dissem.
inator Of filth and disease. Every ay
Is estimated to possess Il 900 very mi
mute foot hairs that exude a slimy
nuid On those hairy legs 1t can carry
100000 bacteria that 1t hastens to de-
post upon the food of some family.
These bacteria may live for two
weeks. and so can be carried lope eis-
tanceS on the hy's legs; or as they are
fndiGestible, they can be carried IA -,
alimentary canal Of the Nv and spread
the contagion many miles from the
original source. fact that a CHICAGO
woman has established after careful
work In her laboratory.
For example. a house fly will carry
and distribute mechanically the tuber.
oulosls bacillus in its most Mrulent
form. The house 1ly will cat these
bacllli i'm enormous number, but it Will
not digest them. They Will pass
through It's intestinal tract and emerge
as fully alive. as virulent. as deadly as
before.
Therefore, we do not speak In any
spirit Of eXaggeration when we say
that there should be striving to cleanse
every home of flies as If each OF the
seemingly innocent insects were a
scorpion. For twelve generations OF
descendants, each a poison bearer, is