The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-07-30


tion of the claws and pads. The
fly's pads are covered with thousands
OF minute short hairs sticky at the
end. There is no suction--merely ad-
hesion. All his grown-up life. the
fly has to manage with sticky feet.
These are constantly becoming clog
ged with adhering substances, and
this contamination the fly must as
Siduously remove if his feet are 10
act properly in supporting him on
slippery places. If this contamina-
tion is too sticky to rub off. the fly
laps it off. and it then passes off
through the stomach.
The fly lays her eggs in the man.
ure pile or some other filthy place.
All the germs-all the microbes
casten themselves on the spongy feet.
The fly brings them into the house
and wipes them off. The fly that you
soc walking over your food is COW
cred with filth and germs. If there
Is any dirt in your house, or about
your premises, or those Of your neigh
bors, he has just come from it.
Watch him, as he stands on the su-
gar. industriously wiping his feet. He
Is getting rid Of disease germs, rub
bing them on the sugar that you are
going to eat, leaving the poison for
you to swallow.
This does more to spread typhoid
fever. cholera infantum and other in
testinal diseases than any other cause.
Disease attacks human beings only
when they are brought in contact
with 1t. For instance, you cannot
get typhoid fever unless you swal-
low the germs of typhoid, and you so
not swallow these germs unless they
get cp the food you eat or in the
liquids you drink, or on the glasses
or cups from which you drink. In
testinal diseases are more frequent
whenever and wherever flies are
most abundant, and they, aud not
the summer hoat. are the active
agents of the spread of such diseases.
There Is special danger when flies
drop into such fluid as milk. This
forms an ideal culture material for
the bacillus. A few germs washed
from the body Of one fly, may develop
INTO millions within a few hours.
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't buy fodstuffs were flies are toll
Grated. Don't allow your fruits and
CONNECTIONS to be exposed to the
swarms of flies. Don't let flies crawl
over the baby's mouth and swarm
upon the nipple Of it's nursing bot
tie. Dispose Of waste materials In
such a way that the house-fly cannot
propagate. for flies bred in horse
manure, decaying vegetables. dead
animals, and all kinds of filth. Look
after the garbage can, see that 1t is
cleaned. sprinkled with lime or kero-
sene oil, and closely covered. Screen
all windows and doors and insist that
your grocer. butcher. baker and ev-
cry one from whom you buy food
a large percentage Of flies breed in
the stable. There is more health in
a well-screened house than in many
a doctors visit.
Keep flies away from the kitchen.
Keep flies out of the dining
and away from the sick. especially
from those i'll with contagious dis
eases. To clear rooms of flies, car
bolic acid may be used as follows
Heat shovel or any similar article
and drop thereon twenty drops of
carbolic acid. The vapor kills the
flies. A cheap and perfectly reliable
fly poison. one which Is not danger
Gus TO human life. Is bichromate of
potash In solution. Dissolve one
dram, which can be bought at any
drugstore, in two ounces Of water,
and add a little sugar Put some Of
this solution In shallow dishes and
distribute them about the house. A
spoonful OF formalin or formalde-
hyde in quarter of a pint of water
and exposed in the room will be
enough 10 kill all the flies. To quick
ly clear the room burn pyrethrum
powder. This stupefles the flies,
when they may be swept up and
burned. If there are flies in the din
ing-room Of your hotel, restaurant,
or boarding house, complain 70 the
proprietor that the premises are not
clean. b. NJ. CLINEDINST.
The Christian Herald.
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