The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-10
WATCH THE FLY

Juust now. when Brunswick is pay
/ ing special attention to her public
health, we should keep in mind that
common nuisance and ubiquitous
plague, the house nyi Il is well
known that this pest produces t.
phoid. cholera, dysentary. infantile
ailments, etc
True enough, ever since the gov
eminent report about he typhoid fe-
yer among American soldiers in the
Spanish war the house ay was fairly
well known TO be responsible for the
spread Ct that infestion. 1t was not,
however, until the researches Of the
ensuing year had accumulated that
tho hy's guilt was established beyond
the caYil Ct a doubt
The proboscis. or what you might
call the tongue. Of the houseay. is a
NEST pernicious organ. Because the
common fly cannot chew or bite or
suck or pierce the skin; food must
be served up to the by in liquid form.
In other words, a fly is always on a
soft lauid or fever diet
AS a ay aIights upon food it sticks
olt its tongue, or proboscis, by
means Of q pair Of air sacs or vaca-
um claners, which blow out the pro
boscis as you blow into glove to
expand the fingers. Another pump
OF the 1y's mouth sucks In the liquid
food mixed with the insects saliva.
The fod passes through The ailmen-
tary easal and the undesirable parts
arc SHOT forth as aecks OF dust and
dirt from the under surface of the
Ays Dolby
Il has been adundantly confirmed
by experiments that the fly not only
stores up food for days and weeks al
a time in is crop, but it also regurgi-
tates fresh as well as old food very
often. "a fly will thus regurgitate
food ont through It's mouth and pro-
bgscls mixed with saliva, in order to
dissolve and liquify food that is too
sclid for it TO take Indeed, flies are
so lllthy in their habits that they re-
gugitate and reswaiioW the same
feed many times. These regurgita-
zion spots may be seen on white sur
faces Of window panes, and are cas-
lily distinguished from spots OF waste
matter discharged by the fly, because
they are much lighter III color than
the latter.
You may thus readily picture to
what takes place when a fly
gorged with a liquehed diet Of ty-
phoid material tuberculosis spntum
or microbe1teh milk, hops gayly
here and There ON your berries, but
ter sugar bowl and kitchen utensils,
The apparently clean and harmless
ay that idly glideSSelto your kitchen
from the passing garbage cart in or
der to have a bit ~ your bread, your
sugar, Your meat, or your butter, re
gu8itates a few times here and there
wherever il aliehts Briefly, II a fly
wishes to sip some nourishment
from your table it must fegurgitate
several times at least upon the food
it Graves. Some OF its ejecteNSallpa
and food may be the remnants of fct-
I'd repasts obtained some days pre-
yiously from the llthies places.
Moreover. the sticky gluey cush-
ions upon Il ilys feet are literally
We and swarming with bacteria
other disease-sD Speeding NTH The
GO act q aRdy walking upside
IS due to tihs mucilaginous ma.
u lal present upHn the insects feet
The foetpada of lily are SO glutinons
That they take III part Of Anytime
with which they come in contact
Hyery known disease germ and con-
tagion has been recovered from the
-sstlf of q llN.a foot