The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-05-20
SPEAKING OF THE HOUSE FLY

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 vermin.
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 cuspidor, from
decaying animal or vegetable 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., if you
eat food that has come in contact with
flies.
Flies may infect with tuberculosis,
| typhoid fever, scarlet fever diph-
! iberia, and other infectious diseases.
They have the habit of feasting on
tuberculosis sputum and other dis
charges of those sick with those dis
eases, and then go direct'to your food
to your drink, to the lips of your
sleeping child, or perhaps to small
open wound on your hands or face.
| When germs are deposited in milk
they multiply very fast; therefore
milk should never be exposed to flies.
What to do Get Rid of Flies
Screen your windows and doors.
Do it early before fly time and keep
screens up until snow flies.
Screen all food, especially milk. Do
not eat food that has been in con-
tact with flies.
Screen the baby's bed and keep flies
away from the baby's bottle, the
baby's food and the baby's comfort
err"
Keep flies away from the sick, es-
perially those i'll with typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, diphtheria and tubercu-
losis. Screen the patients bed. Kill
every fly that enters the sick room
Immediately disinfect and dispose of
all discharges.
Catch the flies as fast as they ap-
pear. Use liquid poisons, sticky fly
papers and traps.
Place either of these fly poisons in
shallow dishes throughout the house:
(a) Two teaspoonfuls of formalde-
hyde to pint of water, or
CD One dram of bichromate of pot
ash dissolved in two ounces of water,
sweetened with plenty of sugar.
To quickly clear rooms of flies,
burn pyrethrum powder or blow black
flag into the air of the room with a
powder blower. This causes flies to
fall to the floor in stunned condi-
ton. They must then be gathered up
and destroyed.
Eliminate Breeding Places of Flies
Sprinkle chloride of lime or kero-
sene over contents of privy vaults and
garbage boxes. Keep garbage receipt
acles 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 ma
nure in screened pit or vault if pos
sible. Manure should be removed at
least every week.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Keep sewerage system in good order,
repair all leaks Immediately.
Clean cuspidors every day. Keep 5
per cent solution of carbolic acid in
them all the time. Get rid of sawdust
boxes used as cuspidors-destroy
them-they're unsanitary.
Don't allow dirt to. accumulate in
corners, behind doors, back of radia-
tors. under stoves, etc.
Allow no decaying matter of any
sort to accumulate on or near your
premises.
Flies in the home indicate a care
less housekeeper. Remember: No dirt
no flies.
If there is nuisance in the neigh
borhod, notify James H. Wallis,
state pure food commissioner and
sanitary inspector, Boise, Idaho.