Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-08-23
DAs0ER FROM FLlEs.

state Board Of Health lssass warn-
ing Circular.
Don't allow fliss in your house.
Don't permit them near your food
especially milk.
Don't buy food stuils where flies are toll
Grated.
Don't eat where fiiss have access to the
food.
Flies are the most dangerous insects
known to man.
Flies are the flthiest Of ell vsrmin. They
are born in fifth, live on nth and carry
fifth around them. They are magnets be-
fore they are flies.
Flies are known to Be carriers Of mill
lions OF death dealing disease germs.
They leave some OF these germs wherever
they alight.
Flies may infect the food you eat. They
come to your kitchen or to your dining
table, fresh from the privy vault, from the
garbage box, from the manure pile, from
tho cuspidor, from decaying animal or
vegetable matter, or from the contagious
sick room, with this sort Of nth en- their
feet and in their bodies, and they deposit
ii ON your food, and you swallow Nth
from privy vaults, ETC., ETC., II you eat
food that has come in contact with fiiss.
Fiies may infect you with Tuberculosis
typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphthsria,
and other infectious diseases. They have
the habit OF fessting on tuberculous
sputum and other discharges OF those sick
With these diseases, and then @ direct to
-FOUR food, TO your drink to tbs lips Of
your sleeping child, or psrhaps to . small
open wound on your hands o. fAcs. When
germs ar. depositsd In milk thsy multiply
very last; Therefore milk should never BE-
exposed 10 nies.
TO GIT RID OF 1IIna.
Screen your windows and doom. Do IL
early, before fy time, and keep screens up
until snow halls.
Screen all food, especially milk. Do not
f1iss.
screen the baby's bed and keep dies
away from the baby's bottle, the baby's
food and the baby's 'scomfoFter."
Keep dies away from the sick, especially
those i'll Of typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and Tuberculosis. Screen the
patients bed. kil every ny that enters
the sick room. Immediately disinfect and
dispose Of all discharges.
Catch the flies a. fast - they appear.
Use liquid poisons, sticky fly papers and
traps.
Place either Of these Hy poisons In shall
low dishes throughout the house: ~
Two tesspoonfuls OF formaldehyde to .
pint OF water, or (b) One dram OF BIZ
chromste OF potash dissolved In two
ounces OF water, sweetened with plenty Of
sugar.
To quickly clear rooms Of dies, burn
pyrethrum powder or blow powdered
BLACK Gag into the air OF the room with
powder blower. This causes flies to fall
to the floor in . stunned condition. They
must then be gathered up and destroyed.
ELIMINATE BREEDING PLACES.
Sprinkle chloride Of lime or kerosene
over contents Of privy vaults and garbage
boxes. Keep garbage receptscles tightly
covered, clean the cans every day, tie
boxes every week. Keep the ground
around garbage boxes clean.
Sprinkle chloride Of lime over manure
piles, old paper, old straw and other refuse
Of like nature. Keep manure in screened
pit or vault il possible. Manure should
Be removed at least every week.
Pour kerosene into the drains. Keep
sewerage system in good osdsr, repair all
leaks immedistely.
Clean cuspidors every day. Keep 5per
cent. solusion Of carbolic scio IN them all
the time. Get rid Of sawdust boxes used
- cuspidoes-dsstroy them-thsy arc un-
sanitary.
Don't allow dirt to accumulate in cor
ners, behind doom, back of saidistors'
under stoves, etc.
Allow NO dscaying matter OF any sort to
accunulate On or near your premises.
Flies in ths hone indicate . careless
housekseper. Remember, NO dirt-Ao flies.