Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-06-29
FIGHT THE FLIES
AND SO SAVE LIFE
SIMPLE CLEANLINESS A FATAL
CONDITION TO THE DANGER
Gus PEST.
THAT'S ALTOGETHER THE BEST
REMEDY, BUT HERE ARE
OTHERS.

American civic Associations Circu'aF
II is at this time of the year Ind.
tho house-fy begins to take on HE
for the ensuing spring and summer
eggs laid last fall will soon begin 10
hatch. At first he is only NIUE
worm, wriggling his tiny gruD-llKe
form in some incubating pile OF nlth'
He is usually found in the manure
lille. the Clubhouse, or the mound Oh
rubbish or garbage in the back YARD.
In this condition he is easily Killed.
and il should be the duty of every
person to kill him now. The house
fly could not exist if everything were
kept perfectly clean and sanitary.
Exterminate the fy-worms. do away
with its breeding places, and there
will be no flies. If we are to fight the
flies this summer we should use every
agency possible, and the best way TO
fight them is to prevent their breed
ing
The common housefy is coming to
be known as the typhoid fly" and
when the term becomes universal
greater care will be exercised in pro-
tecting the house from his presence.
Flies kill a greater number of hui
man beings than all the beasts of
prey, with all of the poisonous ser
penis added They spread disease
which Stays thousands, while big,
powerful beasts kill single victims.
AS soon as the fly comes out of his
shell he is full grown and starts out
in the world to make living, and if
your home is not clean he knows it
by the door They can discern an
odor of filth for miles
AS much as they like filth odors
they dislike other odors. Where a
bad door will attract them the clean
odor will repulse them A pleasant
smelling substance fragrance of
flowers, geraniums, mignonette, Law
ender, or any perfumery-wi drive
them away
He is a frequenter of offal. The
fly lays her eggs In the manure pile
or other Objectionable filth. All the
germs-all the imaginable abomin-
able microbes-fa sten themselves on
the spongy feet of the fly. He brings
them into the house and wipes them
off his feet. The fly you see walking
over the food you are about to eat IS
covered with filth and germs. If there
iS Rirrfi tbn oh
premises, or those of your neighbors,
he has just come from it, 1t is his
home. Watch him as he stands on the
lump of sugar industriously wiping
bis feet. He is wiping off the disease
germs, rubbing them on the sugar
that you are going to eat, leaving the
roison for you to swallow.
He wipes his feet on the food that
you eat, on the faces and on the lips
of your sleeping children. This does
more to spread typhoid fever and
cholera lnfantum and other intestinal
diseases than any other cause.
Disease attacks human beings
only when they are brought in con
tact with it. For instance, YOU can
not get typhoid fever unless Won
swallow the germs of typhoid, ana
you do not swallow these germs IN
less they get on the food you eat or
in the liquids you drink, or on the
glasses or cups from which you drink
Not only does he scatter the seeds
OF disease from his body over your
food, but before your fruit and vege-
tables are placed before you thew
have been subjected to his filthy hab-
It's, either in the kitchen or in the
stores, where he flies from the horse
dirt in the middle of the street TO the
tubercular sputum on the sidewalk
and then back to the foodstuffs dis.
played for sale.
Many diseases which are attributed
to milk and water originate through
flies. A polluted brook, river. or lake
furnishes germs from sewers, and
flies in millions settle on the refuse
that washes along the waters edge.
Intestinal diseases are more fire.
quent whenever and wherever flies
are most abundant, and they and not
the summer heat are the active
agents in its spread.
There is special danger when 6ies
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 miinons within a few hours, and
the person who drinks such milk will
receive large doses of bacilli. which
may later cause serious sickness.
Therefore, keep the flies away from
the milk.
Don'ts.
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food,
especially milk.
Don't buy foodstuff where flies are
tolerated.