Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-08

germs Of a good many other com
plants. BY occupation q parasite on
man, living at his expense and de-
pending upon him to great extent
for protection. this abominable insect
returns the obligation by affecting
upon its benefactor suffering and
death in a great variety of forms.
So conspicuous is the house fly as an
agent for the distribution OF typhoid
fever that the government bureau OF
entomology suggests the appropriate
ness of calling it the typhoid fly.
Ard the cost of the dirty, buzzing pest
we tolerate unnecessarily we may esti
mate from the fact that the fly is held
responsible for not less than % per
cent Of all typhoid cases, and that DR.
George NJ. Kober of Washington, a
recognized authority, says that. allow
ing for time lost by sickness, expense
for medical treatment, ETC., typhoid
costs the people of the United States
$3.50, 100000 annually.
All these things being true, the State
Register marvels that there is not
more united action to minimize the
danger There should be more warn
ings, more precautions and more safe
guards established. Health authori
ties should exact more cleanliness
about stables and other f1y-breeding
places.
We give prominence to some Of the
wise yet simple rules given out by DR.
Neff, head of the Philadelphia city
department of health:
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
ITO get rid of flies, screen your
windows and doors. Do it early before
fly time and keep screens up until
snow falls.
Screen all food, especially milk. Dc
not eat food that has been in contact
with flies.
Screen the babys bed and keep flies
away from the baby's bottle, the baby s
food and the babys comforter
Keep flies away from the sick, es-
peciaIly 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 appear. Use liquid poisons,
sticky fly paper and traps.
ITO clear rooms of flies, burn pyra-
thrum powder or blow powdered black
flag into the air of the room with a
powder blower. This causes flies to
fall to the floor in stunned condition.
They must then be gathered up and
destroyed.
Sprinkle chloride of lime or kero-
sene over contents of vaults and gar
bage boxes. Keep garbage receptacles
tightly covered; clean the cans every
day, the boxes every week. Keep the
ground around garbage boxes clean.
Sprinkle chloride of lime over old
paper, old straw and other refuse of
like nature.
Pour kerosene into the drains. Keep
sewage systems in good order; repair
all leaks Immediately.
"Clean cuspidors every day. Keep a
5 per cent solution of carbolic acid in
them all the time. Get rid of saw dust
used as cuspidQrs; destroy them; they
are insanitary.
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
Files in the home indicate a care.
less housekeeper. Remember-no dirt,
no flies. If there is a nuisance in the
neighborhood, notify the bureau of
health"