The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-06-24
TYPHOID BLAMED ON FLY.
Glue on Insects Feet Are Simply Load
ed With Bacteria.
kansas City Start

| lAdA0d0 CiCy quail
The summer about to dawn is the
tenth anniversary of our conclusive
conviction and tangible proof that the
common nuisance and ubiquitous
plague, the pestiferous housefly, pro-
duces many dangerous maladies, such
as typhoid, cholera, dysentery, infan-
| tile ailments and the like.
True enough, ever since the govern
ment report about the typhoid fever
among American soldier in the Span
j ish war, the housefly 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 flys
guilt was established beyond the caYil
of doubt.
The probosis, or what you might
call the tongue, of the housef1y, is a
most perniciOus organ. Because the
common fly cannot chew or bite or
suck or pierce theskin, food must be
served to the fly in liquid form. In
other words, fly is always on a soft,
liquid or fever diet.
AS a fly alights upon food it sticks
out its tongue or probOscis by means
of pair of air sacs or vacuum clean
ers, which blow out the proboscis just
as you blow in a glove to expand the
fingers. Another pump of the fly's
mouth sucks in the liquid food mixed
with the insects saliva The food
passes throgh the alimentary canal
and the undesirable parts are shot
forth as flecks of dust and moitened
dirt from the under surface of the fly's
body
1t has been abundantly confirmed by
experiments that the fly not only
stores up food for days and weeks at
time in its crop, but it also regurgi-
| tates fresh as we'll as old food very
often. A fly will thus regurgitate food
out through it's mouth and probosis
mixed with saliva, in order to dissolve
and liquify 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 reorganization spots may be seen
on white surfaces of window panes,
and are easily distinguished from
spots of waste matter discharged by
the fly, because they are much lighter
| in color than the latter.
You may thus readily picture to
yourself what takes place when a fly
gorged with a liquified diet of typhoid
material, tuberculosis sputum or mi
crobe-rich milk, hops galy here and
| there on your berries, butter, sugar
bowl and kitchen utensils. The ap-
parently clean and harmless fly that
idly glides into your kitchen from the
passing garbage cart in order to have
a bit of your breed your sugar, your
meat or your butter, regugitates a
few times here and there wherever
it alights. Briefly, if fly wishes to
sip some nourishment from your table
it must regurgitate several times at
least upon the food it Graves. Some
of it's elected saliva and food may be
the remnants of fetid repasts obtained
some days previously from the fflthiest
places.
| Moreover, the sticky, gluey, cush-
ions upon fly's feet are literally alive
and swarming with bacteria and other
disease spreading filth. The graceful
act of the fly walking upside down is
due to this mucilaginous material
present upon the insects feet. The
footpads of 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 sole of a
| fly'S foot.