Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-15
THE HOUSE FLY.

The Monitor wishes to join that list
of papers that are preaching this short
but valuable sermon: "Swat the fly !"
The Florida State BoardS9sof Health
says on some of its literature: Files
in the home indicate a careless house
keeper mo dirt no flies, land goes on
10 say:
Flies are the most dangerous insects
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 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 ma
nure pile, from the cuspidor, from de-
caying 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 you with tubercu-
fosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, and other infectious dis
eases. They have the habit of feast
ing on tuberculosis sputum and other
discharges of those sick with these dis
eases, and then go direct to your food,
90 your drink, to the lips of your
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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.
To get rid Of flies:
Screen your windows and doors. Dc
1T early before fly time and keeI
screens up until snow falls.
Screen all food especially. Do not
eat food that has been in contact with
flies
Screen the baby's bed and keep file:
away from the baby's bottle, the
baby's food and the baby's comfort
err"
Keep flies away from the sick, espe
cially those i'll with typhoid fever, diph
liberia and tuberculosis. Screen the
patients bed. Kill every fly that en-
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5nfect and dispose of all discharges.
Catch the flies as fast as they ap
pear. Use liquid poisons, sticky fly pa
DerB and traps.
Place either of these fly poisons il
shallow dishes throughout the house
GAY Two teaspoonfuls of Tornado
hyde to pint of water, or
CO. One dram of bichromate of pot
ash dissolved in two ounces of waite
sweetened with plenty of sugar.
10 quickly clear rooms of flies, bur
pyrethrum powder or blow powdere
black flag into the air of the room wit
"A powder blower. This causes flies t
fall to the floor in stunned condition
They must then be gathered up an
destroyed.
The real remedy however, is found
eliminating the breeding places of file
To do this:
Sprinkle chloride of lime or keroser
over contents of privy vaults and ga
baqe boxes. Keep garbage receipt
cIes tightly covered, clean the ca
every day, the boxes every wee
Keep the ground around garbage box
clean.
Sprinkle chloride of lime over m
r1ure piles, old paper, old straw a.
other refuse of like nature. Keep m
nure in screened pit or vault if pos
bIe. Manure should be removed
least every week. Pour kerosene in
the drains. Keep sewerage system
good order, repair all leaks immediat
Hy.
Clean cuspidors every day. KeeI
per cent solution of carbolic acid