The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-22
ENTIRE COUNTRY rs
AROUSED TO DANGER
OF THE TYPHOID FIJI
Health Authorities Everywhere Urging People to Stamp Out
Breeding Places and Thus EMemnate PeSt-ScreenS
Essential to Clean Food,

Zach succeeding mail brings to The
Herald office exchanges from all parts
OF the country containing columns Of
matter concerning the warfare that is
being waged against the insect that
was formerly called the house fly, but
which is now officially known as the
typhoid fly. it having been so Iesig-
mated by the United States govern
ment.
The articles in these newspapers are.
without exception, indicative of the fact
that the health authorities in every
quarter are determined in their pur-
pose TO exterminate the pest; or, if not
To exterminate it entirely, TO destroy
so many Of the myriad germ-leden in
sects that an effectual check will be
put on the spread of typhoid, cholera,
dysentery and other diseases.
In many localities the screening Of
dwelling houses and places where food
products are offered for sale is made
compulsory.
Aside from destroying the larvae and
the eggs. the most effective, and prac-
tically the only means of combating the
flies. is BY the use of screens. Screens
are an absolute necessity in the wag-
ing Of the battle against the fly.
It must be borne i'm mind that the
mere putting up Of screen doors IS not
all-sufficient. They must be kept closed.
SWarms of flies enter houses through
the tiniest crack or the smallest tear
in the mesh. and there need be no doubt
about the fly's ability to find the crack
or the rent first.
Better than screens or any other
method Of keeping out the flies or
killing them after they once get in IS
the destruction Of their breeding places.
Certainly. if the fly eggs are not
Matched there viii be little need of
screens or fly traps. It is the prime
essential, therefore, that the filth and
dirt wherein flies lay their eggs be
cleaned away and kept cleaned away.
There are no flies i'm a neatly kept, tidy
back yard. for the reason that there
Is no place for the flies to lay their
eggs to be Matched i'm the course of a
few DAYS into what Dr. /. o. Howard,
entOm0logist of the department of ag
ricUlture, declares to be the most dan
ger0us insect ON earth
1t has been shown that approximate
ly 96 per cent of the flies are Matched
In manure piles and the other per
cent in garbage boxes and places where
refuse is permitted TO accumulate.
II is apparent. therefore, that first
thought should be given TO the stable.
Among the most active health or
CARNATIONS in the fight against flies
is the Chicago health board. This body
has caused to be printed thousands of
illustrated circulars which will be scat
tered broadcast throughout the city
The circular. which is in the form of
a plaCard. is surmounted with border
containing illustrations of the various
perils to health and life, many of them
appalling.
Within the border is a list of "Don'ts."
Among others occur these:
Don't allow flies i'm 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
food
With regard to the menace that lies
i'm the presence Of flies, the circular
says.
Files are the most dangerous in
sects known to man. Screen your win
dows and doors. Do it early before fly
time and keep screens up until snow
flies. 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 babys
bottle and the baby's food.
Keep flies away from the sick, es-
pecially those III with typhoid fever.
diphtheTia and tuberculosis. Screen the
patients bed Kill every fly that en-
tiers the sickroOm. Catch the flies as
fast as they appear. Use liquid pois-
ous. sticky fly papers and traps. To
quickly clear rooms Of flies burn py-
rethrum powder or blow powdered
black flag into the air of the room