News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-05-03

! or reIuSe. Keep your stable 0OorS
clean and wash them occasionally with
hot soapsuds solution Zone ounce COM
mon soda to twelve quarts soft soap
and water). Manure heaps or vaults
should be disinfected with powdered
chloride Of lime.
Flies find splendid breeding ground
In stable. Sewage vaults should be
cleaned frequently and disinfected and
protected from flies by chloride of
lime or milk of lime, a filthy pigpen
is also fine breeding place for flies.
Pigpens should he 50 built that they
may be flushed out and cleaned. The
manure is Il valuable fertilizer and may
be stored, but should be covered with
dry earth, chloride of lime or crude oil.
The task Of keeping flies out of the
house is difficult one. Screens and a
| fly beaten, fly paper, ETC., only mitigate
the evil The rational method is to
prevent breeding.
The mosquito does not carry the
germ of malaria on his feet, as the
housefy carries the typhoid bacillus.
but in his salivary gland.
The mosquito is known as the "in-
termediate host" Of the malarial para
site. In other words, the parasite is
received into the digestive tract of the
mosquito and Hospitality entertained
and developed until it passes into the
salivary gland, from which 1t is in
jected into the next human that the
mosquito bites.
The mosquito must go and is going.
The hospitality he has extended to the
plasmodium Of malaria has downed
him. But the "anopheles" mosquito is
the genial host and the one which we
must especially seek to destroy. The
common mosquito, "culex," which flies
in the daytime, is harmless so far as
we know. Anopheles may be known
by its attitude on a fat surface-hind
legs and body are elevated at an angle.
while culex keeps the body parallel
with the surface. Anopheles has spot
ted wings, culex not. Anopheles bites
in the early evening, culex at any time.
How to Avoid Malaria.
Avoid the anopheles mosquito and
you will avoid malaria. Bad air has
positively nothing to do with malaria.
Particularly avoid being bitten by
mosquitoes in the early evening.
Screen your house and also screen
your bed with netting if you live in a
malarial locality. Best of all. do not
let mosquitoes breed around your
home. A small pail of standing water
will produce thousands. l have seen
countless swarms Of mosquitoes on a
golf course where the sole breeding
places We're a few water boxes for
washing golf balls.
Allow no standing water around
your place. Screen your water barrel
or cistern. Pour coal oil along the
margin of swamps or slow running
streams. Drain all stagnant water.
Deprive the mosquito of a place to
breed and the fever and ague" will
not get you
Pneum onia, Grip, Etc.
Every one fears scarlet fever. mea-
sizes, whooping cough and diphtheria.
for they are well known to be commu-
nicable or contagious 1t is not so
generally known that pneumonia is an
infectious general disease with local
manifestation in the lungs. The pneu-
monia germ, rejoicing in several beau
tiful names, of which "Diplococcus
pneumonia" is the most commonly
used, is rather short lived and easily
killed by sunlight and fresh air. In
the modern treatment of pneumonia
these agencies are utilized, and the pa
tient is treated so far as possible in
the open air. Every precaution should
be taken to destroy the sputum of
pneumonia patients. Strong I've is
good disinfectant for this purpose. but
burning is better. People in attend
ance on pneumonia patients should
protect themselves from infection.
Home Disinfectants.
Heat.-Boiling is the most effective
way of steriizing clothing. handker-
chiefs or other articles that can be
treated III IHlS way. USELESS luleCteu
articles should be burned.
Soapsuds.-One ounce Of common
soda to twelve quarts of hot soapsuds
soft soap and water) is an excellent
cleanser for floor, refrigerators, etc.
Chloride of Lime.-Powdered chic
ride of lime is strong disinfectant
and deodorizer 1t should have a pun
gent, penetrating odor and an extreme
ly irritating effect on the eyes and air
passages, otherwise it is inert and use
less.
Milk of Lime.-One quart Of dry.
freshly Stacked lime to four or five
quarts of water; useful for the same
purpose as chloride of lime in disin-
fecting stables, drains. sewage vaults,
sinks, all places where putrefaction,
foul odors or infection may exist.
Carbolic Acid Solution.-Six ounces
to one gallon Of water. This is dan
gerous to have around the house and
must be used with care. Useful for
wiping floor, washing utensils and
pouring down drain when infection is