The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-06-19
Typhoid FeDer
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REASONS WHY PEST SHOULD! BE
REGARDED AS DANGEROUS.

The summer about to pass is the
tenth adversary Of conclusive con
viction and tangible proof ira; tfr,
common nuisance and ubiquitous alag.
ne, the pestiferous housely, produces
many dangerous maladies, such as ~.
phoid. cholera, dysentery. infantfIe all.
ments and the like.
True enough ever since the govern.
ment report about the typhoid feve.
among American soldiers In the Span.
ish war. the housefy was fairly we'll
known to be responsible for the spread
OF that infection. 1t was not however.
until the researches OF the ensuing
year had accumulated that the fy'a
gnilt was established beyond the cavil
of a doubt.
The proboscis. or what you might
call the tongue Of the housefy, Is n
most pensions organ. Because the
common fly cannot chew or bite or
suck or pierce the skin, food must
be served up to the fly in liquid form
In other words, Il fly is always on a
soft. liquid or fever" diet.
AS fly alights upon food it sticks
out It's tongue or proboscis by means
OF pair OF air sacks or vacuum clean
crs. which blow into n glove to ex.
pand the fingers. Another pump OF
the ny's mouth sucks in the liqaia food
mixed with the Insects saliva. The
food. passes through the alimentary
canal ana the undesirable parts are
shot forth as ilecks of dust and moist.
ened dirt from the under surface O:
the tly'S body.
1t has been abundantly confirmed
by experiments that the fly only stores
up food for days and weeks at time
in its crop. but it also regurgitates
fresh rs well as old food very often.
A ny viii thus regugitate food out
through its mouth and prohobscis mix.
ed with saliva, in order to dissolve
ana liqnify food that is too solid for
it to take. Indeed, flies are so filthy
In their habits that they regurgitate
and reswallow the same food many
times. These regurgations spots NAV
be seen on white surfaces or window
panes, and are easily distinguished
from spots of waste matter discharg.
ed by the fly, because they are much
lighter In color than the latter.
You may thus readily picture 10
yourself what takes place when a ay
gorged with liquitied diet of typhoid
material. tuberculosis sputum or mi.
croberlch milk, hops gayly here and
there on your berries, butter, sugar,
bowl and kitchen utensils. The an,
parently clean and harmless fly that
idly slides into your kitchen from III =
passing garbage cart in order to have
bit OF, your bread. your sugar, your
meat Or your butter. regurgitates a
rev tones hee and there wherever II
aiights. Briefly, If fly wishes to
sip some nourishment from your table
1t must regurgitate several times ut
least upon food it Graves. Some OF its
elected saliva and food may be the
remnants of fetid repasts obtained
some days previously from the filth.
lest place.
Moreover. the sticky, gluey cas;f.
IONS upon fy's feet are literally
alive and swarming with bacteria and
other disease spreading filth. The
graceful art OF n fly walking upside
down Is due TO this muslaginous MA.
teriaI present upon insects feet The
rontnads of a fly are so glutinous that
they take up part OF anything with
which they come in contact. Every
known disease germ and contagion
has been recovered from the scale of
fly's foot.