The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-04-18

for the coming year. Let every mem
Der of tie clGh lie thinking of this and
submit any program or plan of work
they may desire.
The following is a synopsis of the
lecture given by DIR. Carpenter at the
court house Friday evening under the
auspices of the womans club.
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 filthiest 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 privy vault
from the garbage box, from the ma
nure pile. from the cuspidor, from de-
caying animal or vegetable matter,
from the contagious sick , DOM with
this sort Of filth on their feet and in
their bodies, and they deposit it on
your food. and you do swallow filth
from privy vaults. etc, il you eat food
that has come in contact with flies.
Flies may infect you with tuberculos-
is. typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diph-
liberia, and other infectious diseases.
They have the habit of feasting on
tuberculosis sputum and other dis
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 small
open wound on your hands or face
When germs are deposited in milk
they multiply very fast; therefore milk
should never Be exposed to flies
WHAT TO DO TO GET RID OF
FLIES.
Screen your windows and doors. Do
it early before fly time and keep
screens up until snow falls.
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's
food and the baby's comforter.
Keep flies away from the sick, es-
pecially those i'll with typhoid fever.
scarlet fever, diphtheria and tuber-
culosis. Screen the patients bed.
Kill every fly that enters the sick room
Immediately disinfect and dispose of
all discharges.
Catch the flies as they appear. Use
liquid poisons, sticky fly papers and
traps.
Place this fly poison in saucers
throughout the house: Two teaspoon
fuls of formaldehyde in pint of water
sweetened with sugar.
To quickly clear rooms of flies, burn
pyrethum powder. Sprinkle the pow
der on live Goals carried on a metal
shovel. The fumes causes 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 en-
ter at edge of window shade. Flies, in
attempting to escape the fumes, will
seek ray of light at windows. This
simplifies their collection.
Eliminate the breeding places of
flies.
Flies breed in filth
Allow no filth or decaying matter of
any kind to accumulate on or near your
premises.
Sprinkle kerosene over garbage and
contents of privy vaults. Keep gar
bage receptacles tightly covered; clean
the cans every day, the boxes at least
once a week. Keep the ground around
garbage boxes clean.
Keep manure in screened pit or
tightly covered in vault. Manure
should be removed every week, at least
Burn all refuse-such as old bedding,
paper, straw, etc.
Pour kerosene into the drains. Keep
sewerage system in good order; repair
all leaks Immediately.
Clean cuspidors every day. Keep S
per cent solution of carbolic acid in
them all the time. Get rid of sawdust
boxes used as cuspidors-they'rs in
sanitary.
Permit no dirt to accumulate in cor
ners, behind doors. back of radiators,
under stoves, etc
Flies in the home indicates a careless
housekeeper remember: no dirt no
flies.
If there is a nuisance in the neigh
borhood notify the department of
health of your city.
Mr.. H. w. Gossard of the Gossard
Corset Co., has made a donation a.
mounting to $500 to the Woman's Club
this sum to be used by the committee
in Furnishing the club room. This firm
was already well known to the women
of Lancaster and now they ar even