The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-11
BEWARE OF FLIES AND FILTH
They Poison Food and Bring Fever Say the Fly Commit
tee, of Which a Dawson Doctor Is Chairman.

Medical association earnestly request
that you read this information and
say whether or not the flies should
be destroyed, or at least an effort be
made to keep them away from your
food:
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food
especially milk.
Don't buy foodstuffs from markets
or grocery stores where flies are toll
Grated
Don't eat at hotels or restaurants
where flies have access to the food.
Flies are the most dangerous in
sects known to man.
Flies are the filthiest of all YER
min. They are born Il filth, live on
filth and carry filth around with
them They are maggots before they
are flies.
Flies are known to be carriers of
millions of death-dealing disease
germs. They leave some of these
germs wherever they alight.
Flies may infect the food you eat.
They come to your kitchen or to
your dining table fresh from the
privy vault, from the garbage box,
from the manure pile, from the GUS
pidor, from decaying animal or veg
etable matter. or from the contagious
sick room with this sort of filth on
their feet and in their bodies, and
they deposit it on your food, and you
do swallow filth from privy vaults,
ETC., if you eat food that has come
in contact with flies.
Flies may infect you with tubercu-
losis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and other infectious dis
eases. They have the habit of feast
ing on tuberculosis sputum and 9TH
er discharges of those sick with
these diseases, and then go direct
to your food, to your drink, to the
lips of your sleeping child, or per-
haps to a small open wound on
your HANDS or face. When germs
are deposited in milk they multiply
very fast; therefore, milk should
never be exposed to flies.
What to Do to Get Rid of Flies.
Screen your windows and doors
Do it early before fly time and keep
screens up until snow falls.
Screen all food, especially milk
Do not eat food that has been in
contact with flies.
Screen the baby's bed and keep
flies away from the baby's bottle,
the baby's food and the baby's COM
forter.
Keep flies away from the sick, es-
pecially those i'll with typhoid fever
scarlet fever, diptheria and tubercu-
losis. Screen the patients bed. Kill
every fly tnat enters the sick room.
Immediately disinfect and dispose of
all discharges
Catch the flies as fast as they ap-
pear, Use liquid poisons, sticky fly
papers and traps.
Place either of these fly poisons in
shallow dishes throughout the house
(a), Two teaspOonfuls of formalde-
hyde to a pint of water best of all;
or OBJ, one dram of bichromate of
potash dissolved in two ounces of
water, sweetened with plenty of SUI
gar; I'd, burn insect powders in
your rooms; (e), sweetened solution
of Parish green, arsenic or cobalt is
fine to kill flies.
To quickly clear rooms of flies
burn pyrethrum powder or blow
powdered black flag into the air of
the room with a powder blower.
This causes flies to fall to the floor
in stunned condition. They must
then be gathered up and destroyed.
Eliminate Breeding Places of Flies.
Sprinkle chloride of lime or kero-
sene over contents of privy vaults
and garbage boxes. Keep garbage
receptacles tightly covered, clean the
cans every day, the boxes every week.
Keep the ground around garbage
boxes clean.
Sprinkle chloride Of lime over ma
nure piles, old paper, old straw and
other refuse of like nature. Keep
manure in screened pit or vault, if
possible Manure should be re-
moved at least every week.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Keep sewerage system in good or
der repair all leaks Immediately.
Clean cuspidOrs every day. Keep
s per cent. solution of carbolic acid
in them all the time. Get rid of
sawdust boxes used as cuspidors-
destroy them-the're insanitary.
Don't allow dirt to accumulate in
corners, behind doors, back of radia-
tors, under stoves, etc.
Allow no decaying matter Of any
sort to accumulate on or near your
premises.
Allow no pig pens near house.
Small towns must keep their alleys
clean, and all low places drained.
DR.. j. II. Dean, Dawson, Ga, Chm n.
Dr. C. M. Curtis, College Park, Ga,
Dr. V. H. Bassett, Savannah, Ga.
DR.. ]. E. Paulin, Atlanta, Ga.
Or I w. Palmer, Alley, Ca, Sec ty.