The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-31

spectators ana hearers IN
the Health League closed it's cam
paign against the house fly at a meet
ing held last night at the corner of
Garden and Palafox streets, and 1t Is
believed that much good has been ac-
compIished during the campaign and
that the health of the community dur
ing the approa ching summer will show
the results of the efforts put forth to
arouse the public to the Importance of
DISCRIMINATING this pest.
The principal address last night was
made by DIR. S. R Mallory Kennedy,
of this city. of the United States Pub
lie Health and Marine Hospital Ser
vice. DIR. Kennedy said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: Primarily
1t Is the doctors business to save lives
and IL we can save lives without giving
bad tasting medicine, or by some cut
ting operation. If we can save lives by
preventing our patients from contract
ing disease, then II Is easier for both
the doctor and the patient. The Sal
walton Army man stands on the street
corner as I do now and tells you that
he has a message for you-he wants to
save your soul. Now for that good
man, I have nothing but admiration
and respect. Unfortunately. / know
very little about your souls and am
content to leave that part of the work
to those who have made study Of
saving souls, but do know something
about your bodies and I come to you
tonight. the last night of our protract-
ed fly meeting with this message: Kill
flies and save lives
You have stood here tonight and
watched one OF the most instructive
moving pictures that have ever seen
and It Is not necessary for me to tell
you that flies are filthy. They are
born In filth, they feed on filth, and
a. -
legs and bodies, they feed and walk on
the food that has been prepared for
human beings to eat. How many
times have we seen Mr.. Fly wipe his
feet on our sugar, tangle his legs in
our butter and wind UP by taking a
bath in our milk7
Aside from nth. flies carry the
germs Of disease. principally typhoid
fever germs and the germs of con-
sumption. Now these germs are so
small that you cannot see them with
out the aid OF a very powerful magni-
flying glass called a microscope, yet
the fly that is eating from the same
plate with you may be carrying mil
lion OF such germs. You are afraid OF
lions and tigers and rattlesnakes, but
did you ever stop to consider that files
kill more people than all the snakes
and Wild beasts in this world? Many
OF these snakes and beasts never get
a chance to kill human being, but a
single fly can come into your home
carrying typhoid germs and kill you
and your whole family. Now. this
should be reason enough to make you
want to get rid of the fly, and now
propose to tell you how to do it
Most house flies in cities are Matched
from eggs that have been laid in horse
manure. Some breed In other forms of
Nth. such as garbage cans, heaps OF
refuse In back yards, etc. The fly lays
40, or more, eggs at one time. If
these eggs are not disturbed they be-
come maggots in about IL hours. In
FIVE to eight days more the maggots
enter the pupa state as caterpillars
and after five OF seven days more come
out of the mar ure in the form of flies.
ready in q fow days to become the
fathers and mothers of large families.
They breed so rapidly that in one sum-
mer the children and grandchildren OF
one pair of flies may amount to thou
sands Of millions. And now, get this
point-the germs that these flies carry
multiply much faster than the flies.
Now, to prevent them from breed
Ing:
/. Screen stables, If possible
q Remove the manure at least twice
b week.
Q. Keep the manure while in the
4. Every time the stables are clean
ed and the manure placed in the bin
sprinkle 1t with slaked lime.
When flies begin to breed in stored
manure they may be killed by spray
ing with kerosene oil or paris green.
A solution Of iron sulphate. one
pound to the gallon, applied at the
rate OF one gallon day will kill all
maggots In a stable where one horse is
kept. AS 1t costs a dollar per hundred
pounds, the cost of keeping flies from
breeding in a one horse stable is about
one cent per day.
When possible II Is well TO abolish
old-fashioned out houses, but where
this cannot be done good amount Of
lime should be used--applied daily.
Chloride of lime is better than slaked
lime but slaked lime is better than
none at all.
Garbage cans should be kept covered
Screen the doors and windows OF your
house, especially the kitchen. dining
room and pantry. If YOU cannot afford
20 DO this, at least screen the food
itself. especially the milk Screen sick
patients and apply chloride of lime or
some disinfectant to their excreta-
II IN spite OF all you can do to pre-
vent 1t fiies get into your house, they
can be killed or trapped.
Fly Poisons.
Ono teespoonful of bichromate Of
potash dissolved in two ounces of
sweet water. place about the house in
nnnall dishes.
Use carboaio acid and burn insect
powders.
Clean up your own homes and ~ voo
still have files II is because your neigh
bors are harhoring filth. If they won't
clean up, ask the board of health to
force them to do so.
See that the food screening ordi-
nance is enforced. 1t is more import
ant TO You than who viii he the naxt
president or United States senator
When merchants screen their places ~
business against files, patronize tier,
recommend their goods to Others eli
give them honorable mention j., az
newspapers.
There are many other things that I
could tai you, but if you viii do 1,,s.
a few of these things that l have 81
ready told you of in order to rid a.
community of the fly. we will feel th..
we have accomplished something.