The chronicle=news., 1913-04-14

Tubcrcuosis tall Eind-b I"..a.
Cholera lEfnuium G.3oh
Cri.bro-spinai meningitis 10,
Dip,h.ria i.S.o
Scarlet fever i.":s
uronrhiii, Laos
Small poS :!
In addition to ihcs. following Ill =.
eases. Of which ihrf. are scarr-l.
ever any deaths In New York city:
Iubonic plague. p.llaxra. Asi'tir
cholera. leprosy. anthrax. ronjunsI-
wits. oph,..almia and infaniil- par
alysis. The last Is not classified NJ
such by the city board OF health. hut
the state board Of health reported
10 such deaths In 1871
The housc ily costs the United
States $500 1900 a year. In 9th
er words he depriccs the American
people annually of 10000. 900
years OF human life. or t.O0o.0"o
lives OF the present AVERAGE length q"
Edward Hatch. Jr.. chairman OF
the fly-fighiing committee al The
American Civic association.
The fly You don't Kill In April
may bc represented by ..20.-
"00. 900 flies ny September 10.
The authority FOR this statement
is DR.. l.. q. Howard. chief Of the
United States bureau OF entomology.
That Is the heavy toll that every
New Yorker will pay II he stays his
"swatting' hand during the warm
spring days that are already here.
That. multiplied by n hundred mil
lion or two. is the size of the insect
horde that will swarm up and down
, Manhattan island every warm day
from now till autumn
Many OF thcs flies will he killed
before they are hatchcd, OF course.
for II they were not no other rrc1.-
ufe could live.
Every open garbage can. every bit
Of exposed food. every staGnant bit
Of water means another nursery ami
| refuge for the pest. And each inai-
vidual fly is the breeding place for
| nearly as many germs as there are
flies in the average nursery.
This year. more than ever before.
| the guardians OF the city's hcal,h
campaign. Commissioner of Health
Lederle's chief helpers are to be boy
scouts. those busy little warriors
agains; various kinds of sotial dan.
gers. Hundreds OF the lads are now
being instructed in the Use oi
'swattcrs. fly traps and various
! anti-fly poi-ons. From New .Icrsc,
comes u mndcl fly trap designed h,
n hoy scout and withou,
charEc-in meat markets. grocer,
stores. fruit shops aud other place
where files are naturally attracted
The trap consists Of a simple conc q
wire SuaZe tackled to circula
wooden base the whole mounted a
supports that raise 1t abou, three
inches above the surface on which /
is placed. The lower part of til
cone is covered with black cloth
and the flies, attracted by the pois
oncd bait that has been placed in
side the cone, enter from below ant
crawl upward toward the light
Any boy can construct this simpl,
trap himself. Within u few hour
the wire cone wiitt be black will
captured flies. provided it Is placed
anywhere near one OF the ny breed
ing grounds that abound wherever
human beings live close to one an
other without taking elaborate pre-
cautions against the pest. As TO
'swatters", three laths nailed into :
triangle. covered with wire sauz
and pieccd out with u lath handle
make an effective one. The manu-
facture Of these devices furnishes n,
] absorbing backyard occupation TO
any hoy whether he belongs to tn
boy scout organization or not Thci
use now and then by every mcmbc
of the family would create citi
! zcn's health brigade that w0ul
mean a substantial saving in human
live every year. SO serious a mcnac
has the ecrm-carrying fly become ii
several cities that civic organiza
tions have given their whole tim
] to its determination. The little m,I
nicipality of Weir. Kansas. inaugur
| ated an annual scientifirali
planned crusade last year: the Wo
mans Civic league of Baltimore p,i
OOO 600 flies heYond the nOwer L