The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-09-29

and germs. n 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 as
he stands on the sugar industriously wiplng hfs
feet He is getting rid OF 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 the
food you eat. or in the liquids you drink or on
the glasses or cups from which you drink.
Intestinal diseases more frequent when
ever and wherever flies are most abundant and
they. and not the summer heat, are 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 hy "dont's" for the
housewife
Don't allow files In your house.
Don't allow your fruits and CONNECTIONS to be
exposed 10 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 way that the house-hy cannot
propagate. for flies breed In horse manure. de-
caying vegetables. dead animals. and all kinds OF
filth. look after the garbage cans, that they
are cleaned. sprinkled with lime kerosene OIL
and closely covered.
Screen all windows and doors and insist that
your grocer. butcher. baker and every one from
whom you buy foodstuns does the same, and re-
member that large percentage OF fies breed in
the stable
There is more health IN well-screened house
than in many doctors visit
After you have cleaned up your own premises
inspect the neighborhood for hy-breedng places
Call the attention OF the owner TO them and IL
he does not remove them. complain TO the board
OF health.
Keep dies away from the kitchen Keep flies
out OF the dipng room and away from the sick
especially from those I'll with contagious dis
eases.
To clear rooms OF dies. carbolic acid may bs
used as follows: Heat shovel or any similar
article and drop thereon 20 drops OF carbolio
acid. The yapor kills the flies.
cheap and perfectly reliable Nv 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 little sugar Put
some OF this solution in shallow dishes and dis
tribute them about the house
Sticky ny paper. traps and liquid polsons are
among the things TO use In killing nies but the
latest cheapest and best 10 solution OF forms
lin or formaldehyde In water. spoonful of thi.
liquid put into quarter OF a pint OF water and
exposed In the room will be enough to kill eli
the nies
To quickly clear the room where there sr,
many dies. burn pyrethrum powder In the room