Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-05-16

have been traced in many cases directly into sick
rooms as we'll as to markets and fruit stalls
where foodstuffs displayed, without being
screened. By such means as this flies were
traced during outbreak of typhoid fever IN
Plattsburgh N Y The local authorities thought
that drinking water, milk, or some like sup
ply infected but an investigator from New
York went to the Saranac river, into which the
sewage of Plattsburgh was carried, and from
there he traced flies as they went into a moving
picture show attended by large audience, and
he traced the flies as they went from the NOV
les" back to the river.
Countless instances of the spread of various
diseases have been recorded all over the country,
and as result instead of being regarded merely
as harmless, though annoying little pest the
house fly is today considered one or the dead
lest enemies man has to contend with. Far
more dangerous than war, for the fly is every
where every summer excepting in enlightened
communities like Cleveland, Ohio, which is rap
idly becoming pretty nearly fyless city.
Last year experiments were undertaken in a
number of places to exterminate flies. Newspa-
pers of Worcester Mass, offered money prizes
for the largest quantity of flies caught, and the
results were astonishing One enterprls1ng lad or
twelve years won the first prize of $500 when ne
delivered ninety-five quarts of flies. But 1t was
found out later that in order to succeed he had
actually gone into the business of breeding MES
in heaps of fish offal. Altogether the city or
Worcester caught and killed forty bushels OF
flies in few weeks. For obvious reasons those
interested in fly determination are not oHerlng
prizes in the same way this year for dead hles'
In good many communities prizes are oHereo
for fyless blocks Of houses or for farms or Darns
that have no flies on or In them.
ORGANIZATIONS like the Womans Munlclpal
League of Boston are paying for steroptlcon lec'
lures delivered before all sorts of AUDIENCES
and are getting Boy Scouts, District Nursing as
sociations school children, and others at work
On IF tha scientists
interested is G.. F. Hodge, professor OF biology
at Clark university who has accomplished, re-
markable results by screening houses TO keep
flies on the outside, by killing winter hles "nen
they awake in early spring and crawl out Oh
cracks picture holdings, and other dark places
whore thew spend the cold weather and by catch
ing in traps of his own design millions OF young
flies before they can get to kitchen, olnlhs-Iooni
or restaurant. -
One of the most effective steps taken In the
campaign of education is due to Mr.. Hatch VINO
sent a man to London, at his own expense anu
there had made microscopic photographs or hles
and their dangerous activities from which NOV
ing picture film was constructed. The him. SHOWN
all over the country is believed TO nave uone
more than any other one thing to bring millions
of people to realize how great is the danger from
flies and how necessary to remove It,
One of the most ingenious methods Tor teach-
ing children facts regarding flies is seen IN
small pamphlet prepared by Jean Dawson Oh Tue
Cleveland Normal school, who has ADOPTED lhe
question and answer plan of instruction A1ter
explaining. in this way. why flies are dangerous
how they spread disease where they spend the
winter and what they do in spring, the little DOCK
tells about their breeding, their food and how
they carry dirt well as disease.
The closing questions and answers are as fol-
lows:
90 Can family escape the dangers from Ines
nv screening them out of the house?
No. not if they food over which flies have
swarmed or fallen into.
21. Do flies carry sickness and death to many
people In the United States?
There are nearly five hundred thousand cases
of tvphoid fever yearly in the United States, and
nearly 10000 deaths. Much Of this distributed
nv flies. Forty-nine thousand infants die an
nually of enterits summer complaint the
germs of which are probably all carried to the
milk by flies. Flies are now known TO De the
rnost deadly enemy Of man. They kill more peo-