The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-08-05


People have always had an AYERS
ion to pigs, flies and snakes, but vii
tolerate flies around them a millio
times more than they would snake,
notwithstanding the fly carries filt
and poison with him and goe
straight to the food supplies an
tracks 1t all over the food as a boy
muddy feet track q clean floor. 4
snake in the house would mind hi
own business most OF the time. Blu
the fly that has been creeping anon,
all the rotten things in the yards an,
alleys and all over the deposits in tn
privy vaults until his body and leg
are smear of filth and poison, is al
lowed the freedom of the house an,
walks over the articles of food, get
Into the milk and cream, on the but
ter, leaving trail of slime where
ever he goes, but because it is il
tiny particles people have been SLOW
TO discover and to realize the certain
ty OF results from it.
The pig IL a thousand times cleane,
than the fly, he may have mud on hin
and yet not carry much if any in
receive matter, and yet on account o,
1t being larger and visible he is tax.
en- as standard of measure for filth
AS dirty as pig" being 9
common household expression.
But the pig deserves to be exon.
Grated, and Gas filthy as fly" should
be the single standard of the meas.
ure of uncleanliness.
The city physician is having hard
time to get people to make their out
houses entirely fly proof, to cover
the matter in them with lime, to
Keep the stables in sanitary condi-
ton, to keep the old papers cleaned
up and burned that are Matching flies
about the premises, to keep people
from throwing slops out where thew
lie and sour and rot and reek with
flies. To keep people from throwing
empty. cans out with just little of
the tomato or whatever was contain
ed in them, so it may sour and rot
and harbor the flies as they come and
go. The cans should be rinsed out
before throwing them into the gar.
bage box.
People have always complained of
getting sick so easily from eating
fresh fruits purchased in the mar
fets, and yet they keep on buying
ruits of dealers who keep them in
boxes and baskets exposed to dirt.
lust and flies and where people with
Ilrty hands may approach and handle
{. The new pure food law REQUIRES
to be screened, covered or protect
d, both from the dirt and flies. and
rom the human pest who may have
irty hands and long thumb nails
eeking with filth which he sinks
nto the peach or apple to test it's
lpeness, and then leaves it for some
Innocent customer to buy and eat.
arrying with it something from the
irty thumb.
Three important things have been
one recently in egislation-laws
ave been passed to keep rum awayl
ON the public. to remove gambling
evices which do more harm than
BOD, and to keep food pure and clean
hen offered for sale, but of the three
ndertakings, the latter is the more
1portant, because it affects in some
ay every individual who buys any,
ing In the market.
The purchaser of meats in the mar
It cannot know whether or not the
llmal was diseased before theI
aughter; whether or not the meat
rs exposed to flies at the slaughter
use; whether or not the flies about
~n have first visited a privy vault
d then walked over the slice of "
yak which he is about to buy. The
ne conditions may apply in a modi-
4 way to each box or basket of .
sh or dried fruit in the market 8
is only few years since It was a
nmon thing to see dried apples and =
ed peaches in, the market that had :,
N dried In the sun with nothing %
keep the flies off of them, and a
" would be copiously bedecked .
n fly specks. People bought that "
1t and ate it, but it would not be
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