The Elbert County tribune., 1910-08-26

and germs. II there is any dirt in your house
or about your premises, those of your neigh
pors, he has just come from 1t. Watch him
he stands on the sugar industriously wiping his
ieet He is getting rid Of disease germs. rub
Ding them on the sugar that you going to
eat. leaving the poison for you to swallow.
This does more to spread typhoid fever and
cholera infantum and other intestinal diseases
than any other cause.
Disease attacks human beings only when
they are brought in contact with 1t. For in
stance, you cannot get typhoid fever unless you
swallow the germs of typhoid, and you do not
swallow these germs unless they get the
food you eat, or In the liquids you drink, or on
the glasses or cups from which you drink
Intestinal diseases are more frequent when
ever and wherever files are most abundant and
they, and not the summer heat, the active
agents of its spread.
There is special danger when flies drop into
such fluid milk. This forms an IDEAL cu
ture material for the bacillus. few germs
washed from the body of one fly may develop
into millions within a few hours, and the per-
son who drinks such milk will receive large
doses of bacilli. which may later cause serious
sickness.
Here are some valuable fly "donts" for the
housewife:
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't allow your fruits and CONNECTIONS to be
exposed to the swarms of flies.
Don't let flies crawl over the baby's mouth and
swarm upon the nipple Of its nursing bottle.
Strike at the root Of tho evil. Dispose of waste
materials in such way that the house-fy cannot
propagate. for flies breed in horse manure. de-
caying vegetables dead animals, and all kinds of
filth. SO look after the garbage that they
cleaned, sprinkled with lime or kerosene OIL
and closely covered.
Screen all windows and doors and insist that
your grocer, butcher baker and every one from
whom you buy foodstuffs does the same and re-
member that large percentage of files breed in
the stable.
There is more health In a wellscreened house
than in many DOCTORS visit.
After you have cleaned up your own premises
inspect the neighborhood for iy-breeding places
Call the attention OF the owner to them and II
of health.
Keep flies away from the kitchen Keep flies
out of the dining and away from the sick
especially from those i'll with contagious dis
eases.
To clear rooms of flies, carbolic acid may be
used as follows: Heat a shovel or any similar
article and drop thereon 20 drops of carbolic
acid. The yapor kills the flies
cheap and perfectly reliable fly poison, one
which is not dangerous to human life is bichro-
mate Of potash in solution. Dissolve one DRAM
which can be bought at any drug store in two
ounces Of water and add a little sugar Put
of this solution in shallow dishes and dis
tribute them about the house
Sticky fly paper, traps and liquid poisons are
among the things to use In killing files but the
latest, cheapest, and best is a solution of forma-
lin or formaldehyde In water A spoonful of this
liquid put into quarter of pint of wsSer and
exposed In the room will be enough to kill all
the flies.
To quickly clear the room where there are
many flies, burn pyrethrsm powder in the room.