The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-09-29
County School Letter

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A new cistern has added much
| to the comfort and convenience of
pupils and teacher of Cass school,
No. 10 Cool drinking water and
soft water for washing hands and
faces, desks and the blackboard are
q great convenience.
Miss Gladys Marks is attending
the Tyndall High School. The
Misses Rose, Anna and Katherine
Cassidy are attending the Spring
field Normal.
New coats of paint, exterior and
interior, have done much to i'm
prove the appearance of Suess
school, No. IS.
Miss Elsie Sawyer has taken
charge of Hughes school, No, 81.
Miss Sawyer is a teacher of con
siderable successful experience and
the board of that district are for
tunate in securing her services.
Many of the schools are starting
in with a. exceptionally full and
regular attendance In several
cases nearly every pupil in the
district enrolled the first day and
there have been very few absences
since school began.
In q certain school house a por-
ton of blackboard has been placed
in a conspicuous position and de-
signated as a place for 'Rules of
the School," The teacher in
charge of this school now has
written but one word Work" up
on this board. We know of no
more appropriate or comprehens.
i've set of rules.
The past warm days have been
very unpleasant in school houses,
especially, where fly poison or
"tanglefoot" have not been used
continuously. The expense and
trouble of doing this is really very
slight and would add very muchto
the comfort and safety of health of
pupils and teacher. Too great
care against the dangers of the
housefy car not be taken. Flies
light on, walk over and feed upon
all manner of unclean and diseased
matter, and then spread disease
germs ana unclean particles over
dishes, food, books, etc. They may
come to us direct from feeding up.
on the sputum of a consumptive
or the wastes of a typhoid fever
patient. They may fly directly
from some one who has sore eyes
and leave the germs upon our own
hands and faces. There is nothing
more dangerous and unclean than
the house fly. During the past few
years careful Investigations have
disclosed some very startling facts
regarding the dangers of the house
fly. 1t has ben proved beyond any
doubt that the legs and bodies of
flies r teeming with disease germs
and that the "specks" contain
many dangerous live disease germs.
In the neighborhood Of a typhoid
fever patient a fly was allowed to
walk across a plate of gelatin. The
gelatin was then put away in a
moist warm place for a few days.
Upon a careful examination with a
microscope it was found that the
curse which the fly had taken
across the gelatin could be very
readily traced by the clusters of
we'll developed typhoid fever germs
at each place where its feet had
touched the gelatin. In one "speck"
left by a fly which had been cap.
tured upon the face of a smallpox
patient Ills germs of that disease
were found. In many other cases
live germs Of tuberculosis, typhoid
fever. scarlet fever and other dan
gerous diseases have been found.
On flies captured in the market
house Of Nashville, Tennessee from
1000 to 10000 germs were found on
each, ga out Of 100 Of these flies
were found to be carrying dyson ,
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