The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-06-22
KILL THE. FLY.

A Single naTmleSS-lOOklHS HOUSE liy
may carry from $50 to 6,s0O,OO0 bac'
terra. These germs may be, often
are, the germs of typhoid fever, in
part. Thet fly net OILY bears away
on it's legs tiny particles from a ty-
phoid patients discharges-On which
it gladly feeds, VIII never possible
but it also carries virulent typhoid
baciai i'm Its digestive organs.
These germs It'll takes to the food
'of other persons, leaving them IN
quantities. On ev ny TINY spot on
your famGly's food that has been
touched by fly with .ch has fed ION
typhoid discharges, a colony of bac-
terra begins to grow with huge rapid
ity. If you are mot in the right ply
stcal, cox dit On-smd are you in hot
summer days ?-yOu have an excellent
chance to- catch typhoid fever from
this cont minated food Then, when
you are sick, others, p Ihaps your
own people, may be stricken with ty-
phoid borne bH flies from you ito
these others.
One s]Ggle footprint OF house fly
was found by Cobb to have left $780,
900 fungus spores; 1,25O,0OO is the av
trage number of bacteria per fly
found by Esten and Mason i'm expert
ments with 414 flies which had fed
at cow STABLES, garbage barrels, pig
pens. etc. Inaiw,IGA
How do we know what the fly does
By careful experiments of great sci
entists. DR.. Lelsnd o. Howard, chief
OF the United States government bu-
reau OF entomology in his ":The
House FEY-Disease Carrier,''a COM
plete m-mual on the fly and how ito
fiah4 1t, published by Frederick A.
Stokes company, this spring, gives
scores OF expertmd. It's which show
that disease germs by the million hav
BEEN found ON flies by both lalbora-
tory scientists and army surgeons.
I'm our national encampments In
1883. onefifth of the soldiers devel-
oped typhoid. While water was part
ly to blame, the doctors have deter
mkhId that the fly was the chief
agent for this terrible spread of dis
ease.
The Bee could quote a .hhgndred
examples. Here are a few, mostly
from army surgeons OF high rank anC
great scientific training Drs Tooth
ande Calverly OF the British army
found in 1.-THE BIO war that i'm tontS
fUM Of sick men the flies left suffer
erS from SUI stroke alone but settled
pftilessly ON the faces OF typhoid pa
tients-and then swarmed over food.
1t was then noted that when the cold
weather killed the IL. the typhoid
stopped
FwUm Ihdic, Lieutenant Colonel F.
w. G. Jones shows that flies are the
chief carriers OF typhoid, and that aQl
of us carelessdy cat food which we
have allowed to be touched by the
hE. i bearing flies, are moth .ns less
thin eaters OF filth.
Asid trom army camps, in the or
binary peaceful cities proofs OF the
flys' disease be ring have been fount
Though here, where there are no ar
my surgeons in charge of every man
it, is, harder to investigate.
AS for thu wholesome country, doc
bas have shown that practically al
OF the terribly prevalent typhoid is
bOTlle, not 40 much by b ID water bu
by lilies, visiting the Cuthouses o.
various sorts-which are usually, il
the country and small towns, LETT ex
pk.sedido the flies.
Once the country flies thus gsthe
germs they can 'leavG them in mill
or butter, for transportat. on to crow
ed cities. They gather thickly abou
most d3iF'ies, markets, ETC., And ty
phO.d germs Will live in milk TO
awenty days ready to iLfect us
the very milk that gees to our child
ren-while in butter the germs vii
live for 14O days.
In the laboratory many scientist
have by car full experiments prove
that flies do GETTY germs every tim
they touch them. I'm humber %
cases cited by DR.. l.. O.. Howard i
his book scientists have had file
walk Ovar and feed on scMttio1S CO.
tanning typhoid bacili When thes
flies were transferred to clesm col
tainers they always were fcmnd t
carry the germs to the new vessel
Typhoid causes more deaths in on
year than ". uow fever does in fifty
and lilies cause IS per cara of t,
phoid in many rural and some cit
districts.
What is to be dCne? Three thing
First-Screen all houses, especial
kitchens; all restaurants, all grocer
stores; every pl-ce where flies ca
getat food Remember that ycu a