Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-31
SWAT THE ELY.
Health Officer Lewis Distributing Sev, eral Thousand Circulars in the City.

 eral Thousand Circulars in the City.
 This week the distribution of Swat the Fly posters and handbills has been carried out under the direction of Dr. N. B. Lewis, the city health officer. A supply of some 400 large posters for display in stores and other public places has been secured and 5000 smaller handbiIls which are to be put into the hands of the people, now that the fly season is approaching. Around the printed matter on the pos ter is picture story so plain that he who runs may read and take warning
 The Warning
 The following is the warning given in the poster:
 Swat the f1yl
 Don't allow flies in your house.
 Don't permit them near your food especially milk.
 Don't buy foodstuffs where flies are tolerated
 Don't eat where flies have access to the food.
 Flies are the most dangerous insects known to man.
 Flies are the flthiest of all vermin. They are born in filth. live on filth and carry filth around with them. They are maggots before they are flies.
 Flies are known to be carriers of millions 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 priNy vault, from the garbage box, from the manure pile from the cuspidor, from decaying animal or vegetable matter, or from the contagious sick room with this sort of filth on their feet and in their bodies, and they deposit 1t on your food, and YOU DO swallow filth from priVy vaults, etc. etc, 1T you eat food that has come in contact with flies.
 Flies may infect you with tubercu- losis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and other infectious dis eases. They have the habit of feasting on tuberculosis sputum and other dls- charges of those sick with infectious diseases, and then going direct to your food, to your drink. to the lips of your sleeping child, or perhaps to a small open wound on your hands or face. Germs deposited in milk multiply very fast; therefore, milk should never be
 What to Do to Get Rid of Flies.
 Screen your windows, doors and porches. If you have screens With holes in the wire cloth, repair same with new cloth.
 Screen all food. especially milk. Do not eat food that has been in contact with flies.
 screen the baby's bed and keep flies away from the baby's bottle the baby $ food and the baby's comforter"
 Keep flies away from the sick, espe- ciaIly those ill with typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria and tubercu- losis Screen the patients bed. Kill every fly that enters the sick room. Immediately disinfect and dispose of all discharges.
 Catch the flies as fast as they ap- pear Use liquid poisons sticky fly papers, fly swatters and traps.
 A good fly poison can be made by using one pint of milk, one pint of water. one tablespoonful formaldehyde and one tablespoonful sugar Place m shallow vessels small squares of bread thoroughly saturated with this mix ture. KEEP TT OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN AND ANIMALS. Put a vessel or two of this mixture on the back porch. to destroy the flles before they get into the house. No other foods should be near. then the flies will take the poison, killing them quickly and by the thousands.
 To quickly clear rooms of flies. burn pyrethrum powder. Sprinkle the pow der on live coals carried on a metal shovel The fumes cause flies to fall in a stunned condition. They must then be swept up and destroyed. Best results are obtained by darkening the room allowing only ray of light to enter at edge of window shade.
 Eliminate Breeding Places.
 Flies breed in filth Allow no filth or decaying matter of any kind to accumulate on or neal your premises. Sprinkle kerosene over contents of privy vaults. Keep garbage recepta- cles tightly covered: clean the cans every day. the boxes at least every week. Keep ground around garbage boxes clean.
 Keep manure in screened pit or tightly covered vault MANU RE SHOULD BE REMOVED EVERY WEEK, AT LEAST.
 Pour kerosene into the drains. Keep sewerage system in good order; repair all leaks immediately. Burn all refuse such as old bedding, paper, straw, etc.
 Clean cuspidors every day. Keep , per cent solution of carbolic acid in them all the time. Get rid of saw dust boxes used as cuspidors-they are insanitary.
 Permit no dirt to accumulate in cor ners. behind doors, back of radiators, under stoves. etc.
 FLIES IN THE HOME INDICATE A CARELESS HOUSEKEEPER. RE- MEMBER: NO DIRT-NO FLIES.
 If there is a nuisance in the neigh borhood notify the
 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,
 Norwich Connecticut.