Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-08-31

and germs II there is any dirt in your house
or about your premises, or those of your neigh
bors he has Just come from It. Watch him
he stands or the sugar industriously wipng his
feet. He is getting rid o. disease germs. rub
bing 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 it. 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 on 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 flies 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 cul.
ture material for the bacillus. few germs
washed from the body of one fly may develop
into millions within 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 ny "donts" for the
housewife:
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't allow your fruits aud CONNECTIONS to be
exposed to the swarms OF flies
Don't let flies crawl over the babys mouth and
swarm upon the nipple OF its nursing bottle
Strike at the root of the evil. Dispose OF waste
materials In such a way that the house-hy cannot
propagate for flies breed in horse manure. de-
caying vegetables, dead animals, and all kinds Of
hth so look after the garbage cans, see that they
are cleaned sprinkled with lime or kerosene oil.
and closely covered.
Screen all windows and doors end Insist that
your grocer, butcher, baker and every one from
whom you buy foodstu1s does the same, and re-
member that large percentage Of nies breed In
the stable.
There is more health in weI-screened house
than in many a Doctors visit
After you have cleaned up your own premises.
inspect the nelghborhood for hy-br1 eding places.
Can the attention Of the owner 70 them and II
he does not remove them. complain to the board
of health
Keep flies away from the kitchen Keep files
out Of the dining room and away from the sick
especially from those Ill with contagious dis
eases
TO clear rooms OF flies. carbollc 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 fy poison one
which Is not dangerous 20 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
some OF this solution in shallow dishes and dis
tribute them about the house
Sticky fly paper traps and LIQUID polsons ara
among the things to use IN killing flies, 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 water and
exposed In the room will be enough to kill all
the flies.
To quickly clear the room where there are
many Mes burn pyrethrum powder in the room.