The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-20
FROM FLIES AND FILTH
TO FOOD AND FEVER

The committee on contagious and
infectious diseases of the Georgia
Medical Association earnestly urge
you to carefully read the following;
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 in
sects known to man.
Flies are the filthiest of all YER
min. 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
germs. 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 GUS
pidor, from decaying animal or vege-
table 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
~,
Flies may infect you with tuber-
culosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever.
diphtheria and other infectious dis
ease. They have the habit of feast
ing on tuberculosis sputum and other
discharges of those sick with these
diseases, and then go direct to your
food, to your drink, to the lips of
your sleeping child, or perhaps to g.
small open wound on your hands or
face. When germs are deposited in
milk they multiply very fast; there
fore, 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.
Place either of these fly poisons in
shallow dishes throughout the house.
(a) Two teaspoonfuls of formalde-
hyde to a pint of water, or
CD One dram of bichromate of
potash dissolved in two ounces of
water, sweetened with plenty of SUI
gar.
To quickly clear rooms of flies
Il
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.
Screen all food, especially milk.
Do not eat food that has been in con-
tact with flies.
Screen the babys bed and keep
flies away from the. baby's bottle,
the baby's food and the baby's
comforter"
Keep flies away from the sick, es-
pecia1ly those i'll with typhoid fever
scarlet fever, dipththeria and tuber-
culosis. Screen the patients bed.
Kill every fly that enters the sick
room. Immediately disinfect and
dispose of all discharges.
Eliminate Breeding Places of Flies.
Sprinkle chloride of lime or kerr
osene over contents of privy vaults
and garbage boxes. Keep garbage
receptacles tightly covered, clean the
cans every day, the boxes every week.
Keep the ground around garbage
boxes clean.
Sprinkle chloride of lime over ma
nure piles, old paper, old straw and
other refuse of like nature. Keep
manure in screened pit or vault if
possible. Manure should be re-
moved at least every week.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Keep sewerage system in good or
der, repair all leaks Immediately.
Clean cuspidors every day. Keen
5 per cent. solution of carbolic acid
in them all the time.
Committee-Dr. ]. G, Dean, chair