The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-08-13
DETERMINATION OF THE HOUSE
FLY.
Subcommittee Makes Report, Which Is
Adopted and Advertising Begins.
The subcommittee of the Pu

| Board OF Trade reported yesterday
afternoon to the General Committee
and recommended that campaign of
advertising be begun at once to arouse
public sentiment against the fly and
show the dangers of the pest. The
report was adopted and an offer of
Mr.. F. o. Watts to advance the first
$50 of expense money was accepted.
The womens clubs of the city have
not yet been solicited for help in the
matter but it will be taken up with
them at once. The report of the COM
mittee follows:
After careful investigation of the
germs, both of which are eaten by the
pensities of the common house fly
especially the tubercular and typhoid
fever germs, both of which are eaten
by the fly and can pass through its
organism to be deposited in an active
state on foodstuffs) and after a thor
ough discussion of what is actually
necessary to abolish the Fly null
sance," your committee is convinced
that a campaign of education is the
first step.
Any man, woman or child who
makes even a casual investigation of
the habits of the fly and the filthy
places it frequents in quest Of food,
will be an ardent supporter of thor
ough going fly campaign First, to
abolish the breeding places of the fly,
and second, to place every safeguard
against the disease-laden fly.
With this end in view, the serious
ness of this enemy to human health
should be placed before the people
at large so that the subject will be-
come one of both home and public
discussion. Your committee, there
fore, has the following recommends
lions to make:
First-That you have printed in
colors and give wide distribution to
the illustrated dodger as published in
the report of the Merchants Associa-
ton of New York and used by the
State Board of Health of Florida in
the fy-hghting campaign of that state.
This distribution should be made un'
der the supervision of the State Board
of Health, whose cooperation we can
surely secure (dodger 10-1-2x16
inches, cost of plate about S6.75.
Dodgers cost about $3.50 per thousand
in 5000 lots).
Second-That posters for the street
cars of Nashville and railroad cars
leading to Nashville be printed and
worded thus: "No woman will permit
flies in her home any more than she
will permit other vermin;" GOO pos
tiers necessary for Nashville street
cars would cost about $4,000.
Third-That cooperation of the
states daily and weekly papers be so
licited; and, where secured, that news
items be continuously furnished by
: those actively engaged in the work
: and, if possible, induce our press
: friends to give the fy-ighting cam
S paign that frequent and favorable edi
. torial comment without which tn
S movement can be of little avail-or
1 at least, so slow of results as to max
Nashville be a laggard in the prosecu
ton of this modern and beneficial
movement which is attracting the al
n tention of all progressive cities.
:, Fourth-That we ask for and Civ
n active cooperation to the variou
t woman's clubs of the city and state
:, as it is our belief that this fly-fightin
d movement must have substantial SUI
port in the home before it can becom
effective
Fifth-That we recommend
4. everybody that no purchase be mad
u of merchants who keep unscreene
t, and unsanitary stores, or elsewhel
e, where foodstuffs are kept exposed
y flies.
ct Sixth-That this committee heart
81 " endorses the work of the Nashvil
e. Board of Health and pledges its SUI
port to the efforts of the strengthe
ing of its position and scope.
Seventh-That the Nashville Boa
Of Trade appoint committee of
n. least one dozen representative G.
ell liens to wait upon the Mayor and CT
us Council for the purpose:
IN First-Of having a city ordinan
is PASSED to conform with the sta
W law requiring the screening of
le places where foodstugs are dispense
~ also another ordinance compelli
a. screening and weekly removal
e e manure piles, which are the chi
IN N breeding places Of the fly
~ Second-To learn from the city
% theirs what will be necessary to secu
ho for the citizens of Nashville a mC