Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1913-04-10
WHY NOT A
FLY CRUSADE
DISEASE CARRIERS SHOULD BE
ATTACKED EARLY-A STRONG
LINE OF BATTLE

A few more warm days and the
common fly will be with US. For
moment he will hang poised in the air
and then, when you are not looking,
drop meter-like into your coffe, your
choisest prepared dinner or any place
else where he can rid himself Of few
thousand germs. He will continue
this all summer and gradually get
more adept at the performance as
grim Winter again approaches. Why
not house fly campaign for Williston
now? "
The common house fly is born and
bred in filth. Stable manure and all
kinds Of dirt and foul matter are hot
beds for the fly. It requires from ten
to fourteen days for the fly to pro-
duce generation. A good way Of
expressing the vital human relation
of flies would be by the use of the
three "f's"-Filth-Fl
During the Spanish-American war
a great plague of fever broke out in
the different camps of our army. 1t
was noticeable to all that flies were
numerous, both at mess the tents and
on the refuse of the camps. Flour
was sprinkled on the refuse of the
camp, and during mess, the same flour
lad. n flies crawled over the soldiers
food. Some germ cultures were
placed IN the ground and the flies al
lowed to walk over them and from
these Cultures hosts Of typhoid germs
were developed. It was thus proved
beyond question that the flies we:e
the carriers of the disease.
The most practical way to prevent
the spread of fly disease is to destroy
all filth, screen our houses and kill the
flies directly whenever possible.
Special bulletins are prepared on
this subject by the Fly-Fighting Com
mittee of the American Civic Associa-
ton, of Washington, D. c. Among
the things the committee most desires
to impress upon the minds of the
American people are
Don'ts
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food,
especially milk.
Don't buy food stuff where flies are
tolerated.
Don't have feeding places where
flies can load themselves with germs
from typhoid or dysenteric patients.
Don't allow your fruits and confec-
tions - be exposed to swarms or flies.
Don't let the flies crawl over the
baby's mouth or upon the contact Of
the nursing bottle.
How To Kill Flies
To quickly clean the room where
there arc flies, BURN PYRETHRUM
POWDER in tho room. This Supplies
the flies and they may be swept up
and burned.
To clear room of flies CARBOL1C
ACID I, ay be used as follows: Heat
shovel, or any similar article, and
drop thereon 20 drops of CARBOL1C
ACID, and the vapor will kill the flies.
A cheap and perfectly reliable FLY
POISON, one which is not danger
Gus to human life, is B1CHROMATE
OF POTASH in solution. DISSOLVE
ONE DRAM, which can be bought at
any drug store, in TWO OUNCES OF
WATER, and add a little SUGAR.
Put some of this solution in shallow
dishes md distribute them throughout
the house.
The summary offered in the bull
letin is as follows Clean up your
premises inside and out and then, as
much as you can, see that others do
the same.
Strike at the root of the evil. The
house fly breeds in horse manure, kit
chen offal and the like. Dispose of
these materials in such way that the
house fly cannot propagate. Screen
all your windows and doors and insist
that your grocer, butcher, baker and
every one from whom you buy food
stuffs does the same.
There's more health in well
screened house and clean premises
+h,n IN ,,oonv doctnr's visit