The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-08-27

and walkon the food you eat, car
rying on their feet the tiny germs
which live in filth just as you live in
a 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 one of these
diseases. So the fly that seems so
harmless may do you much more
harm than bee or hornet.
Your 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 to 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 can
dy, fruit or other food which is left
in front of stores or anywhere else
! where flies may feed and walk on 1t.
Flies lay their eggs chiefly in stable
manure, and if this is left without
screens or other covers to keep the
flies away, great numbers 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 its rules But be-
fore you report other people for being
careless and dirty and so making it
possible for flies to become nuis-
ance, be sure that your own house is
clean, and that no garbage cans or
boxes are left uncovered 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.
Rules for Dealing With the Fly MUS
Keep the flies away from the sick,
Especially those i'll with contagious
diseases. Kill every fly that strays
into the sick room. His body is COW
cred with disease germs.
Do not allow decaying material Of
any sort to accumulate on or near
your premises.
All refuse which tends in any way
to fermentation, such as bedding,
straw, paper waste and vegetable
matter sould be disposed of or COW
cred with lime or kerosene oil.
Screen all food
Keep all receptacles for garbage
carefully covered and the cans clean
ed 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 meal; burn or
bury all table refuse.
Screen all food exposed for sale.
Screen all windows and doors, es-
Epecially the kitchen and dining room
Don't forget, If you see flies, their
breeding place is in nearby filth. 1t
may be behind the door, under the
table or in the cuspidor.
If there is no dirt and filth there
will be no flies.
II there is nuisance In the neigh
borhood write at once to the Health
Department.
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