The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
Relentless War on the Household
Pest Opens Soon.
DR.. Crumbine Fixes the Date as
April %.
GIVES THEDIRECTIONS
Will Let People Know What to
Do.
Have Houses Properly Screened
and Kill, Kill, Kill.

The open season for the common
house fly will begin about Anril %.
and from then on there should be lit
tie OF no peace for the measly little
household past. DIR. S. ], Crumbine.
of1clal leader of the anti-fly hounds
is cleaning and loading his guns ready
70 90 Vallant service in the extermina-
ton of the little black, many-eyed.
many legged chap that delights in
"aolng IN dirt and filth and never
washes his feet before going into the
mouse. Things will begin to hum or
rather swat about the last of this
month and then until the frost drives
the blood out of the insects and they
crawl behind the windowcasing for the
winter every fly will be in danger of
losing ms HE and there is no game
law TO limit the number one NAV kill
in any one day.
me April bulletin of the board of
health will be devoted entirely to flies
and there will be 20 or "a pages of
good reading showing some seven hun
dred reasons why the fly has no ex-
cuse for living except to bring sick
ness and pain and death to many good
and loyal citizens of Sunny Kansas
Dr. Crumbine is gathering the ma
terlal for that bulletin now and he
is also gathering material for the
L.
The bulletin will be sent to the Kan
sas schools and used as textbooks in
many. The leaflets will be sent out in
bundles to health officers and also
every letter that leaves the state
board of health will contain one of the
little leaflet that tells in short SEN
fences how dangerous the common
housefly really is and what ought to
happen to every single one of the buzz
zing pests.
Every citizen is urged to have his
house screened and to kill every single
fly that manages to slip in while the
door Is open or that comes in through
holes in the screen. A fly can go al
most any place and it seems, some
times that they crawl into house I'M
der the window screens and the screen
casing fits so tight a knife blade can
not be pushed under it.
About the time the bulletin goes out
the clean I'D order of the state board
to the county boards to burn or carry
away all trash piles. The women of
some of the towns are beating the
board to this as they have organized
clean up campaigns of their own and
they are giving prizes to the small boys
to gather up all cans and refuse in
the alleys and back yards.
A big poster is being printed to be
sent out all over the state to be post
ed in poStoffices, all public buildings, on
poles, fences and signboards and any,
where else the country health officers
can find to put them. These posters
show how the fly travels from manure
piles, cess pools, trash piles, garbage
cans and anywhere else where filth is
collected, into the house without never
a touch to his dirty feet. Then he
travels over any food and especially
any sweet stuff he can find and into
the baby's milk and over the face of
tuberculosis and typhoid fever patients
and then back over the food again. BY
the time he has made this trip the
death and sickness breeding germs have
all been wiped off and generally into
the food and the flies goes out to get
another load of microbes to distribute.
DR.. Crumbine is believed to be the
originator of the Swat the fly sIo-
gam he has used for three or four years.
1t has been adopted by the boards of
health in many states.