Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-26
THE MOST DANGEROUS
ANIMAL IN THE WORLD


dirty alleys, foul water and open vaults
with the result that there were only
eight deaths from typhoid. During
the three years that the records have
been available at North Yakima there
have been sixty-six deaths from ty-
phoid and enteritis, none of which oc-
Cured in December and January.
The whole state of Washington is
making a most determined fight upon
the fly. It has three inspectors who
do nothing but travel with the public
health exhibit, giving stereopticon lee
lures. This exhibit was first shown
during the Alaska -Yukon-Pacific ex-
position, where. by actual count, a
quarter of a million people visited 1t.
During the past season the exhibit
visited fifty communities, including ev-
ery town in the state of four thousand
or more inhabitants, and it has been
shown before more than 1000 per-
sons-every one Of whom went away
an enemy of the housefy. In the
towns visited the public school chill
dren above the sixth grade have at
tended the exhibition under the super
vision Of their teachers, and have
them write essays what they saw and
learned about the fly. In the summer
of 1909 and 1910 the inspectors visit
ed one hundred and forty-one cities
and towns. and sixty logging camps
were inspected and instructions given
for improving sanitary conditions. One
town Of only three thousand inhabi-
tants, upon the recommendation or an
inspector, voted one thousand dollars
for cleaning up the streets and alleys.
The money was so we'll expended that
il is considered a model city.
Each summer Asheville, N. c., wages
a vigorous war against flies by getting
big red posters telling the people how
to fight the fly. In terse sentences are
given many "don'ts" that help the cit-
zens in their battle. San Antonio,
Texas, has six fy-eating birds called
Chichiquilotes that tighten the labor OF
the city sanitary officers.
In New York city flies are RESPONSE
BILE for twenty deaths a day the year
round, while DR.. George M. Kober OF
Washington, District of Columbia, Is
authority for the statement that in
sickness, medical expense and time
lost, due to typhoid fever, flies cost the
United States three hundred and fifty
million dollars a year.
At the suggestion of Joseph Y. Por-
ter, state health officer of Florida, the
state health board has passed an or
dinance prohibiting the keeping of
horses or mules within five hundred
feet of any dwelling unless precautions
are taken to prevent the breeding and
liberating of flies Similar rules have
recently been passed by the state
boards Of health of Georgia, Wisconsin
and Indiana.
All over the country active cam
paigns are being waged against the
winged pest Of the household. DR.. L,
o. Howard, chief of the bureau Of
entomology, is commander in chief on
the fly annihilation army, and the gov
ernment is now preparing q special
farmers bulletin which will give VAL
liable fiy-killing receipts and show in
colors the various diseases spread by
the fly. The American Civic associa-
ton, the American Consumers league,
many aati-tuberculosis associations,
and the Woman's Municipal league of
Boston are also in the van Of the fly
fighters. Working in the same cause
are health leagues, charity organiza-
tions and the pamphlets on the vices
of this common pest.
The fly on the bald head should be
barred from the comic papers; 1t is no
longer a joke, for every fly is an ad-
vance agent for the undertaken, and a
willing worker at that.
A big step toward the extirpation of
the house fly was taken when moving
pictures became popular. The fy's
life-cycle is now put on in twelve min
utes. On the screen the fly lays eggs
in putrid meat; the eggs hatch before
the audience, the baby flies burrow in
filth, emerge wingless, then grow
wings and fly across the moving screen
as large as chickens.
Another act in the drama is entitled,
How flies carry contagion," and
makes the most thoughtless lean for
ward A fly crawls over a bit of de-
caying fish, then over a lump OF su-
gar, next into a cuspidor, then 1t wheels
it's way to the nipple Of baby's feed
ing bottle or into a dish on the table,
Thus to thousands of people at once In
scores of halls all over the country Is
shown how the fly maneuvers in his
campaign against humanity.
1t simply means that 1t is shaking
off some thousands of germs. An ex-
pertinent was made to find out why ii
washed it's hands; a fly no different
from it's fellows was caught In ster-
llized net and dropped into bottle OF
sterilized water. Then the water was
SHAKEN, giving the fly kind of Tur-
kish bath and rub down. Then the pre-
viously pure water was examined, and
it was found that the creature had left
more than five million germs in its
bath water,
On farms all manure should be re-
moved or treated with chloride of lime
or crude oil.
Pyrethum powder burnt in a house
stupefies flies until they may be swept
up and destroyed. A little of this
burnt i'm the morning in the rooms
which are then aired, will make the
house exempt from flies all day
Twenty drops of carbolic acid put on
hot shovel or any pieces of iron
creates a vapor that kills flies, making
simple and effective remedy. The
common mignonette plant grown in
jars and placed i'm room makes home
life unpleasant to the house fly, while
nature has given us another simple
remedy i'm the common white clover
found in almost every yard. Gather
handful in the morning and place il
i'm vase and watch the flies hunt the