The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-06-03
Typhoid Fly r. Deaths Messenger
(From Health Bulletin Issued by Mis-
sissippi State Board of Health.)
THE TYPHOID FLY.

tFrOm Health bulicIin isSieu NY MIS-
sissippi State Board of Health)
THE TYPHOID FLY.
Typhoid fever consumption. cnolera
infantum and other germ diseases
may be carried to your home if you
or your neighbor are careless.
Flies are an evidence of filth, and
where there is filth the toll of death
is sure and heavy
THE REMEDY: Clean up and Screen
up!
The important work of humanity in
the future will not be the war between
the nations of the earth, but the fight
which must be waged against the
small, and in many instances, unseen
enemies of mankind. Men must get
rid of their small enemies-the rats
which spread bubonic plague, the mos
quito which spreads malaria, and the
Filth Fly" that carries the deadly
germ of Typhoid. The conquest of
the future will, therefore, not be one
of nations, but of filth and disease.
The FiIthiest and Nest Dangerous Of
All Creatures.
The common house fly is the filth
lest of all living creatures. He is for
this reason the greatest enemy OF
man. His filthy habits, hairy body,
spongy feet, small size and modes OF
travel adapt him as no other animal
for spreading all imaginable, horrible
microbes of disease, and still the fly
has access to the home, dining room
and kitchen. He is allowed to wipe
his feet on the food that is eaten, to
sip milk from the glass out of which
you drink, and what is even worse
this pestiferous, dirty and dangerous
creature is permitted to crawl ovel
the lips and face of the innocent babe
or the nipple of it's nursing bottle, fire
uuently leaving death in his trail |!
there any wonder that fy-time is ty
phoid time? And that the death rat
of infants is highest during the II!
season? Because of Indifference ant
carelessness the wonder is that Their
is not more sickness and the death tol
heavier.
Breeds in Filth.
How can the fly be clean? One ft
male may deposit one hundred an
, twenty little white, seed-like eggs i
stable manure, putrid meat, fermen
ing garbage, decaying heaps of pape
!. or rags, and also in places that nee
!. not be mentioned, and here the egg
!. hatch into tiny wriggling worms cal
!. ed "maggots." hese feed and grow
!. and in time burrow deep into the nit
changing into pupae from whic
a emerge the full grown insects. TT
=. fly lives filthy existence from the b
? ginning to the end of his life; I
o breeds in filth, lives in filth, and ca
q ries disease laden filth on his bod
V Inc presence Vi ntto 10 III q NSiiS'NN
s. able measure an index to the unsar
e. tary conditions about the home al
d around the town.
e Flies Breed With Great Rapidly
IS In view of the myriads of flies, Il
n rapidity of their development, and Il
-s sanitary problems concerned in Il
determination of this insect, the ave
age man may think the Anti-hy Cr
SADIE a useless undertaking, and hen
lie the question: Whats the use
,e Even if the destruction of the fly we
N a difficult problem, knowing its da
v ger, and the annual death toll caus
e. by its presence, the general failure
of the part of the public to reduce
numbers can only be termed crlmlr
e. neglect. but since it Is a relative