Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13
Due to Fact That Washing
tonians Wage Incessant
Warfare.
BILLIONS MORE BORN
DURING MILD WINTER
Western Physician Predicts There
Will Be More Disease Than
in Fourteen Years.

That there will be more typhoid.
more cholera infantum. more dysentery.
and more milk-born maladies of infancy
this year than have been known since
the Spanish American war. due to the
fact that it is estimated that there were
billion times more flies this spring
than in the Julys and Augusts OF the
last fourteen years. on account Of the
open winter is the prediction of DIR.
L. K. Hirshberg, recently published in
the Minneapolis Tribune.
While 1t is known fact that mild win
tiers usually are followed by big fly pop
ulations in the early spring. Washing
ton health officials say that there are
fewer of the insects in the National Cap
ital this summer than has ever been
known before, and 1t is their belief that
the health records of the city are des-
tined to record a big improvement.
Incessant Warfare Urged.
The satisfactory showing with respect
to the reduced size of the disease-spread-
Ing horde is attributed to the fact that
Washingtonians have been waging an in
cessant warfare on the fly-one that. If
maintained. eventually will practically
as the capital is concerned, it is claimed.
restaurants and eating places are
molested by fewer flies. due to the pre-
cautions taken by the proprietors of these
places TO abolish the insects. Stables are
not serving as fly hatcheries to the ex-
tent they formerly did, on account of the
fact that larvae-destroying solutions are
being used on a much more extensive
scale Screens. traps, fly paper and
poisons have been employed to advantage
In driving the pests out of Washington
homes.
commencing with the cleanup cam
paign In April, when thousands OF breed
ing places of the insects were DESTROYED
the war on the fly has since been prose
cuted with Vigor. and the results being
OBTAINED are now so pronounced as 70 be
apparent to every Citizen
To perpetuate the good that so far has
been accomplished, Washingtonians can
not afford to stop a minute in their eff
forts to exterminate the germ spreaders,
says DR.. Murray. who is supervising the
anti-fy campaign this year, and other
officials of the local health department.
The work must be kept up, they declare
until the end of the season. or the time
when cold weather drives the survivors
of this years fly tribe into winter quar-
tiers.
Activities of One Fly.
The effect of the activities of a single
hy may be better appreciated when one
takes into account the fact that demon
strations have shown that the insects,
when allowed to feed on milk or sugar on
which germs are placed. will deposit these
microbes ten times every hour. besides
placing them in and on everything on
which they alight. One fly will have a
progeny of 12,U00OOO, or nearly half a
ton in weight.
Washington householders are urged by
DIR. Murray to take every precaution to
see that flies do not come in contact with
food supplies. Trade only with those
dealers who screen the food which they
offer for sale. is the advice of this Off
cial. Suggestions for fly eradication from
homes, restaurants, bakeries. groceries,
stables and other places may be obtained
from DR.. Murray by all who apply for in
formation.