The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-08-07
COMMISSIONER WALLIS ON FLIES
Pure Food Man Sends Out Warning
to HOUSekeenerS


Commissioner Wallis is mailing out
posters giving a note of warning re-
garding flies. He will mail them to
any person making application for
them. The following are extracts
from the poster:
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food
especially milk.
Don't buy foodstuffs where flies are
tolerated.
Don't eat where flies have access
to the food.
Flies are the most dangerous insects
known to man.
Flies are the filthieest of all vermin.
They are born in 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
gesmr. 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 cuspidor, from
decaying animal or vegetable 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., etc., if you
eat food that has come in contact with
flies.
Flies may infect you with tuberculo-
sis. typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diph-
iberia, and other infectious diseases.
hoUn no Nf
tuberculosis sputum and other dis
charges of those sick with these dis
eases, and then go direct to your food,
to your drink, 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 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 con-
tact with flies.
Screen the baby's bed and keep flies
away from the baby's bottle, the
baby's food and the baby's "comfor-
ter"
Keep flies away from the sick, es-
pecially those i'll with typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, diphtheria and tubercu-
losis. Screen the patients bed Kill
every fly that enters the sick room
Immediately disinfect and dispose of
all discharges.
Catch flies as fast as they appear.
Use liquid poisons, sticky fly papers
and traps.
Place either of these fly poisons in
shallow dishes throughout the house:
(a) Two teaspoonfuls of formaldehyde |
to a pint of water, or CD One dram |
of bichromate of potash dissolved in |
two ounces of water, swestened with |
pltnty of sugar.
To quickly clear the room of flies, |
burn pyrethrum powder or blow pow
dered 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 the Breeding Places of
Flies.
Sprinkle chloride of lime or kerosine
over contents of privy vaults and gar
bage boxes. Keep garbage receptacles
tightly covered, clean the cans every
lay, the boxes every week. Keep the
ground around garbage boxes clean.
Sprinkle chloride of lime over ma
lure piles, old paper, old straw and
other refuse of like nature. Keep
manure in screened pit or vault If