The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-08-12
HEALTH OFFICER SPEAKS TOl
YOU

Hotice which appeared In both loo;
papers last week, notifying the peopl
OF this city to clean their premise
and also those who have stables an
cows or sheds, that they keep ther
clean, and manure must be remove
or placed in tight receptacles, so tina
flies can not reach it, as such accum
ulat1on breeds flies and flies bree,
disease.
Until scientists got busy on tn
house fly a few years ago, we looked
at him as just a simple nuisance
Now we look on him as a menace t.
life and health.
one noted scientist is authority 70,
the statement that the house fly each
year costs the United States alone
$35O,OO0,00O in real money and no..
100000 years of life, or 100000
lives of the present average span
In addition to that the people spend
annually $10,OOO,OOO for screens.
In New York out of 1000 deaths
OF cooling babies last year 5000 are
said to be the work of the common
house fly.
In experiments conducted by the
New York health authorities a scien-
list found on the body of a single
ny l,222,57O bacteria, enough to kill
a few thousand human beings.
In another experiment fly was
caught in a sterilized net and drop-
ped into a bottle of sterilized water.
The bottle was shaken and the germs
washed off the insects body, as would
De the case of the fly dropping into
the baby's milk. The previous pure
water was then examined and It was
found that the 1y's bath contained no
less than 100000 disease germs.
Is 1t any wonder then, that the
cry OF swat the fly is going up
rom all over the country, And the
iy can be swatted, and that to goot
Eject. Health authorities in the east
md elsewhere, say that in a few years
ne ny can be etxerminated. BY a
United effort he can be made a thing
4 the past. The fly breeds and ex-
SITS on filth. Cleanliness must be
racticed.
Here are few receipts for getting
Id of flies, and they are worth more
han merely remembering. Thew
re worth practicing.
The best method of killing flies is
utilize the fumes of carbolic acid
he acid should be dropped on heat
shovel, or other smooth surface,
ne vapor from twenty or thirty g
rops will kill all flies in moderate e
re room. But don't leave the acid t
'ound where children can get it.
A reliable fly poison, not danger
is to human life is bichromate of
'tash in solution. Dissolve one
'ahm in two ounces of water and
Id a little sugar. Set this solution
} the rest.
Besides these there are hundreds
methods of Kidding ones premises
flies which are in common use
ID of common usage.
But above all, cleanliness is the
ief essential, and all who do not
ed the warning will be subject to II
osecution, under the laws of the
y and also under the laws of the
ate of Idaho.
have taken considerable time in cl
to the good people of this OF
y, teaching them what is the law ii
d what the sanitary standard is to
W and how it will be maintained in Gu
, future. I'd
Briefly it is this; no open manure
es to furnish breeding places for 81
IS: contents of privies, garbage and
ective fly attracting material of all
Ids be kept in a manner inexcessi-
to flies, and the odor therefrom
'pressed with lime and other deod- oh
nts and disinfectants or the same Ar
ybe burned or buried effectively. I'm
It is less trouble for people to at
'p their premises in clean and mr.
litary condition, than to permit ri.
filth to accumulate, at least in wv
city they will find it so in the W.;
lre.
appreciate the many nice compli-
ats the people have given me in
August cleanup" A united
TT of the people might make this
more sanitary, the streets more
active and the town more beauti-
w. E. PATRIE, ~.
Health Officer. 80,