The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-04-29
WAR ON THE HOUSE FLY
Insect Known to be Spreader of Di-
sease and Filth and Is to Be

Insect Known to be Spreader or d.
sease and Filth and Is to Be
Exterminated
The V. l. S. of Idaho Falls has
joined with the other women's or
CARNATIONS of the country at large
in the fight on the house fly and the
house fly is to see it's finish. 1t has
been proven that the house fly, the
most filthy of all insects is spreader
of disease. Health departments of
large cities have declared war on
the pest as has the city of New Or
the spreader of yellow fever and 9th
err diseases.
A prominent publication in a rec
ent issue says in discussing this sub
ject:
Relentless was is to be waged on
the house fly this year. The women's
clubs through out the United States
are joining with the health depart
ments of the cities to rid the country
of the pests. An educational cam
paign is being prepared and every
possible means will be utilized in
helping the work along. The health
department, of Chicago has issued a
large poster headed Speaking of
Flies" which tells how disease and
filth are carried by these insects. The
poster reads in part:
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food,
especially milk.
Don't buy fodstuffs where flies are
tolerated.
Don't eat where flies have access
to the food.
Flies are the most dangerous in
sect known to man. Flies are the
filthiest of all vermin. They are born
in filth, live in filth and carry filth
along with them. Flies are known
to be the carriers of death-dealing
disease germs. They leave some of
these germs wherever they alight.
How to Get Rid of Flies
Under heading "What to Do to
Get Rid of the Flies" the circular
says:
Screen your windows and doors.
Do it early before fly time and keep
screens up until snow falls. Screen
the baby's bed and keep flies away
from the baby's bottle, the baby's
food and the baby's comforter.
Keep flies away from the sick especi-
ally those i'll with typhoid fever,
scarlet fever diptheria, and tubercu-
losis. Screen the patients bed. Kill
every fly that enters the sick room.
Immediately disinfect and dispose of
all the discharges.
Use liquid poisons, sticky fly pa
pers and traps.
Place either of these fly poisons
in shallow dishes throughout the
house:
(a) Two teaspoons of formalde-
hyde to a pint of water.
CD One dram of bichromate of
potash dissoveld in two ounces of
water sweetened with plenty of sug-
ar.
To quickly clear rooms of flies,
burn pyrethrum powder or blow
powdered black flag into the
air of the room with a powder blow
er. This causes the flies to fall to
the floor in a stunned condition They
must be gathered up and destroyed.
To eliminate the breeding place of
flies is equally important, and the
contest committee lays especial stress
on this point. Among other interest
ing matter, the circular reads.
Sprinkle chloride of lime or kero-
sene over contents of vaults or gar
bage boxes. Keep garbage recptacles
tightly covered and clean them every
day.
Sprinkle chloride of lime over
piles and other refuse. Keep
manure screened if possible. 1t
should be removed at least once a
week.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Clean cuspidors every day. Keep a
5 per cent solution of carbolic acid in
them. Don't allow dirt to accumulate
in the corners behind doors, bark of
radiators, under stoves, etc. Allow no
decaying matter of any sort to accum-
ulate on or near your premises.
The slogan of the committee is, |
NO dirt, no tlies.' In another portion
Of the appeal to housewives the fol-
lowing instructions appear:
Please ask your grocer and your
butcher to keep the food you buy
clean and free from flies! Flies are
he dirtiest and filthiest of vermin.
They are born in filth and carry filth
around with them. They deposit filth
lpon the food you eat and in the milk
your baby drinks, or on the baby's
Ups. .,a.
They come to your kitchen to the
lining table, fresh from the garbage
pail, from the cuspidor, from the
lick room or from decaying animal or
vegetable matter.
They may infect you with germs of
tuberculosis, diptheria, scarlet fever,
IS we'll as typhoid fever.
Any housewife who tolerates these
lirty disease bearing pests in the
ome is guilty of slovenly house,
Restaurants infested with these
ilthy vermin should be avoided as
dangerous to health and life-and
ny meat market, grocery. milk depot
r fruit store in which flies are Der-
litted to come in contact with food
tufts must be regarded as unsanitary
nd unsafe places to trade.