Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-05-24
HOW To GET RID
or DISEASE BREEDING FLIES
Exanline Their Habits and Learn Of
the Dangers.

the Dangers.
Don't allow dies In your house.
Don't permit them near your food
especially milk.
Don't buy fOodstuffs where dies
are tolerated.
Don't eat where fies have access
to the food.
Flies are the most dangerous In
sects known TO man.
Flies are the filthiest OF all YER
min. They are born in nth, live on
NTH and carry Nth around with them.
They are maggots before they are
lilaa.
Flies are known to be carriers of
millions OF death-dealing disease
germs. They leave some OF these
germs wherever they aIight.
Files may infect tho food you eat.
They come to your kitchen or TO your
dining table. fresh from the privy
vault, from the garbage box, from
the manure pile, from the cuspldor.
from decaying 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 prlvy vaults. etc,
etc, II you eat food that has come In
contact with dies.
Flies may infect you with tubercu-
losis. typhoid fever, scarlet fever, dip
htheria. and other infections dis
eases, They have the habit of feast
ing on tuberculosis sputum and other
discharges OF those sick with these
diseases. and then 80 direct to your
food, to your drink, to the lips Of
your sleeping child. or perhaps to a
small open wound on your hands or
face. When germs are deposited In
milk they multiply very fast; there
fore milk should never be exposed to
dies.
Screen your windows and doors.
DO It early before fly time and keep
screens up until snow falls.
Screen all food. especially milk.
Do not eat food that has been In con-
tact with files,
Screen the baby's bed and keep
dies away from the baby's bottle. the
baby's food and the baby's comforts
or"
Keep iiies away from the sick. es-
peelally those III with typhoid fever.
scarlet fever. dlphtheria and tuber-
culosis, Screen the patients bed.
XIII every Ny that enters the sick
room. Immediately dIslnfect and dis
pose Of all discharges.
Catch the flies as fast as they APP
pear. Use liquid polsons, sticky fy
paper and traps.
Place either OF these ay poisons In
shallow dishes throughout the
house;
tai Two teaspoonfuls OF Tornado
hyde 10 a pint OF water. or
tbl One dram OF blchromate OF pot
ash dissolved In two ounces OF water.
sweeten with plenty of sugar.
To quickly clear rooms OF flies.
burn pyrethum powder or blow
powdered black flag into the air OF
the room With powder blower. This
causes flies to fall to the door In a
stunned condition, They must then
be gathered mp and destroyed
Sprinkle chloride OF lime or kerr
osene over. contents OF prlvy vaults
and garbage boxes. Keep garbage re-
eeptaeles covered. clean the cans ev-
cry day. the boxes every week. Keep
the ground around garbage boxes
clean.
Sprinkle chloride OF lime over
manure piles. old paper. old straw,
and other refuse OF like manner. Keep
manure In screened pit or vault II
possible. Manure should be removed
at least every week.
Pour kerosene into tho drains.
Keep sewerage system In good order.
repair all leaks immediately,
Clean euspidors every day. Keep
per cent solution Of carbolie acid in
them all the time. Get rid OF saw
dust boxes used as cuspldors--destroy
thsm-they're unsanitary.
Don't allow dirt to accumulate In
corners. behind doors. hack OF ra-
distors, under stoves. etc.
Allow no decaying matter Of any
sort to accumulate on or near your
premises.
Files IN the home indicate care
less housekeeper. Remember; No
dirt--no ilies.
II there b a nuisance Ia the neigh
borhood. notify James II. Wallis. state
pure food commissioners and sanitary
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