Connecticut western news., 1909-09-02
BEWARE OF THE
 AWFUL HOUSE FLY
HE IS MOST SDANGEROUS INSECT
New York Committee Gives Some Very Timely Advice on the Fly Nuisance, Together With Some Valuable Rules for Combating It.

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 for Combating It.
 The Merchants Associations Com- mittee on Pollution of the Waters of New York, composed of Edward Hatch, Jr., chairman, J. Pierpont Morgan, Albert Wander Veer. NJ. D., John V. Cuyler, 0. E.. and Daniel Jackson has issued a small leafll which admirably sets forth the dangers of the fly nuisance and presents rules for combating the evil. The title is Beware of the Dau- gerous House Fly and here is what the leaflet says:
 Flies are the most dangerous insects we have. They are much more dan gerous 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 walk over filthy places like sewers and gar bage 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 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 without knowing it and be taken i'll with some of these diseases. So the fly that seems so harmless may do you much more harm than a bee or q hornet
 Parents should place 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 tc 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 another. 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 num- bers will be matched 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 make it possible for flies to become a nuisance, be sure that your own house is clean, and that no garbage-cans or boxes are left uncov- cred 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 so much sickness and death, especially among children. as now. ON FIGHTING THE NUISANCE
 Keep the flies away from the sick, es- peciallY those ill with contagious dis eases. Kill every fly that strays into the sickroom. Ills body is covered with dis ease germs.
 Do not allow decaying material of any sort to accumulate on or near your premises.
 All refuse which tends III any way to fermentation, such as bedding, straw, paper waste and vegetable matter should be disposed of or covered with lime or kerosene oil.
 Screen all food.
 Keep all receptaoles for garbage care fully covered and the cans cleaned 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 Q 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. It may be behind the door, under the table or in the cuspidOr.
 If there is no dirt and filth there will be no flies.
 If there is a nuisance in the neighbor- hood, write at once to the Health De- partment.