Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-07
EyERYBODY'S BUsINEss--FLy.

| " ANf NhHhft ltNilA WVAN'~utf0 NhAif
more continue Indifferent. Health au-
thorities warn the people, but do not
have sufficient time or authority for
effective action. Fighting the ny is
still an individual and spasmodic pro-
cedure That which isevery body's busl-
ness, in "A new and startling sense, re-
mains. as IN less important matters,
nobody's business.
The Mississippi state Board Of Health
adopts the most novel method of CONF
batting the ny II issues a cartoon en-
titled. Three Dangerous Toushs"
The three are the morphine bottle,
the househy and the malarial mos
quito. The fly Is the largest and occu-
pies the central position.
determination OF the househy Is, OF
course. impossible. at present; but
vast dimlnution Of its numbers Is both
feasible and important
The Chicago Department OF Health Is
sues brief and well summarized list
OF rules for protection against flies
screen all food and keep flies away
from It.
Keep the streets clean.
| Keep stable mauure-breeding place
| for nies--in "a vault or pit or screened
enclosure. and sprinkle its surface with
| chloride Of lime.
| Quickly cover up food after a meal
| and bury or burn table refuse.
| Keep damp cloths near meat dish
es, milk jugs and other food reoepta-
| Giles
| Burn pyrethrum powder in the house.
| II will kill most Of the flies and those
II does not will fall stunned, when they
| may be swept up and burned. STICKY
| hy papers are second-rate palliative.
"Remember that the exposure of any
| kind OF refuse near a dwelling furnish
es a breeding place for files, and II food
Is exposed flies will deposit germs upon
it,"
From what was recently stated In
| these columns, II should be clear that
| all summer long flies are carrying NTH
and disease from garbage about hotels,
restaurants. and homes, to all exposed
food. Files" remarks a publication
| of the Tennessee State Board OF Health,
| are fond OF feeding on tuberculous
| sputum;" in this way, tuberculosis
| germs are carried 10 human food 10
| be swallowed by every one. And as II
this fact we're not sufficient to awaken
the people to the necessity OF hghting
the ny, DR. Jackson, in a report on
1.-THE Transmission OF Disease BY
Flies says:
Regarded IN the light OF recent
knowledge. the ny Is more dangerous
| than the tiger or the cobra. Worse
than that, he is, at least In our climate
much more TO be feared than the mos
quito and may easily be classed as the
most dangerous animal on earth
| ct has been for some time thorough
ly well demonstrated that he Is one Of
| the chief agencies in the spread OF
Asiatic cholera We now know him TO
| he the source Of high percentage OF
| the cases OF typhoid fever and the chief
| disSeninator OF diarrhoed diseases,
from which about 1000 children die an
nually in New York
The sanitary authorities OF England
| and other foreign countries are cir
culating information as to how 10 de-
stroy flies. hy-nghting committee
has been formed In Washington to in
struct the people how 20 fight the pests.
The United States Department OF AG-
| riculture issues booklet, with illustra-
| lions. showing farmers how to arrange
| their stables 20 that flies may not breed
| In them The most important thing
| in stable management II to take care
that the droppings are swept daily into
| a covered receptacle, where they arc
| not exposed 70 the sunlight.
Some OF the best hints are contained
I'm the directions OF the Washington ny
| fighting committee, as follows.
Heat a shovel or any similar article
| and drop thereon twenty drops or car
bolic acid. The vaPor Kills the mes
! "A cheap and perfectly reliable ny
r.oison. one which is not dangerous 10
| human life, IL bichromate OF potash IN
| solution Dissolve one dram IN TWO
ounces Of water and add little sugar
| Put some OF this solution IN swallow
| dishes and distribute them ABOUT 'ne
house. ,,,t,
| poisons are among the things to use IN
| ti1iing lies but the latest, cheapest ana
| hest is a solution OF formaln OF tot-
| maldehyde in water. A spoonful OF thls
| uouId put into "a quarter OF pint OF
water and exposed In the room VIII DC
enough TO kill all the hies
,sTo quickly clear the room where
4 ,here are many flies, burn pyrethrum
| ry1yder in the room. This stupehes
| the flies and they may then be swept
| up and burned
| "If there are flies in the dining room
| ~ your hotel. restaurant or boarding
| house. complain 20 the proprietor that
| the premises are not clean"
The greatest desideratum at present
in this city and elsewhere in this state
is the prompt removal Of stable manure
Co It's proper place on the fields or into
niles where its screening from flies
| should be made compulsory by law.
Horse manure should never be allowed
10 accumulate Every few days II should
No removed and thinly spread on open
fields or put into sheds screened from
dies 1t will pay farmers well 10 do
this for the mere sake OF conserving
their soil fertilizers. which now quite