Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-01
THE FEY A MENACE
To PUBLIC HEALTH
Rayenous Appetite and Its Re-
suit So Far as Man Is
Concerned.
XII.

XII.
AS soon as the fly issues from the
pupal sheath-the tiny cocoon ir
which 1t has transformed from its mag.
got stage-it begins to feed. While
Transforming 1t has subsisted on Its
own fat cells, and it Is r~avenously
hungry. With a remarkable sense OF
smell. IT can Immediately catch the
odor of food great distances away. and
seeks the kitchen, the dining-room
persistently. Readers of the Evening
STAR who are SO unfortunate as tc
eat In ill-kept restaurants this summer
need little Information regarding that,
and they will appreciate the story
told by DR.. Leland o.. Howard of the
man who entered a dimly- Lighted rail
way restaurant and asked for "a piece
of that h~uckleberry spie"-only to be
told that 1t was supposed to be Gus
tard pie! $ 81
A Lover of Bad Smells.
But the fly's idea of well-scented food
undoubtedly differs from ours. 1t leads
the fly to the slop- bucket, the garbage
pail, and all sorts of uncomfortable
filth, where it can pick up disease
germs to carry them to the kitchen
aforesaid.
The fly eats only by day, sleeping by
night. 1t Is not especially fond OF
bright sunlight, nor of great darkness.
but prefers a porch or room out of the
suns direct rays.
The lys digestive organs are so Sim
pie that food passes through them
without difficulty. 1t does not stop
with three meals a day, but feeds con-
tinually. It is not only an alert germ
carrier, but also never wearying.
A number of Frenchmen have been
experimenting with the color prefer
ences Of files, with a view to seeing
what color would best keep. them away
during fly season. Galli-Valerio found
that the fly preferred colors in the fol-
lowing order: Clear green, rose, clear
yellow, azure, clear red. dark gray and
white. The colors which flies liked
least were blue, pale violet, dark
brown and lemon yellow.
Fly spectz.
As the fy's digestive process is 50
simple. It can keep on laying fly specks
In great numbers, and these, If they are
laid on the food we eat, by a fly which
has eaten OF matter containing disease
germs, can and will bear these danger
GUS germs into our systems.
Major N. Faichnie says that he found
flies each making fifty specks In TWEEN
ty-four hours. DIR. Cobb, the great
photographer Of flies, found In these
governmental deposits of fiies-whose
danger we slight by the name of Fly
specks"-numerous dangerous bacilli.
DR.. Cobb says that he has never pub
lished his own estimate of the number
of fly specks made by a fly land
counted with a counte of his in
vention) for fear of being accused of
sen~sationalism. He say that window
panes with 1000 to 10000 fly specks per
square foot are not uncommon; and
then ten to fifty per square foot are
common in what are considered excel
lent kept homes.
AS for wall paper, veranda posts and
other objects not cleaned 50 often, DR.
Cobb says the number there is beyond
computation, running into the millions.
A fly will eat nearly half It's own
weight of food at a single meal and
quickly deposit 1t, In specks, In places
most dangerous to man.
one OF tine SUBSTANCES WHICH tuS hy
takes I'D and deposits In specks most
readily is sputum-our pest source of
the germs of consumption.
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