The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1913-05-23

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effort to have it all destroyed. In yell
low fever and malaria, the mosquito
is the disease carrier, and in many
places they have been successfully ex-
terminated.
In the case of typhoid fever, dysen-
tery,> tuberculosis, the summer house
fly is one of the principal disease car
riers and we are going to try to ex-
terminate him How can we accom-
plish this? Why in exactly the same
way in which DIR. Gorgas rid Havana
of mosquitoes. by destroying its breed
ing places, and how long it will take
to accomplish this depends entirely
upon the cooperation of the Public.
You may remember that it takes
ten or twelve days for the fly to de-
velop That is, from the time the
eggs are laid until the fly emerges.
Remove all the manure and garbage
and refuse from our yards at least
once a week end the maggots will not
have time to develop. If this IS
taken some distance away and spread
out it soon dries up, fermentation
stops, and them aggots never mature.
But you must also remember that
about the fifth day, when the maggot
is getting ready to go into the rest
ing or pupal stage it burrows into
the loose ground beneath the manure
or refuse pits and is left to breed in
the sand after the manure or refuse is
removed To prevent this, remove
the manure or refuse twice a week, or
better still, put it every day into
tin, wooden or cement receptacle
For one-horse barn, an ordinary
cask or barrel is sufficient. For
| larger barn a wooden or cement bin
should be built Both barrel and bin
should be kept covered either by a
wooden cover or with wire screening,
and in this way the flies will be pre-
vented from laying their eggs on 1t.
Keep all garbage in covered cans and
empty them frequently. Remove all
fermneting substances from our yards,
streets and alleys and keep them
clean.
If we have no sewer system and are
dependent On privies. let us see that
they are screened (both house and
Vault from the flies.
DR.. Stiles, in investigating the hook
worm disease in the South, found that
a large proportion of the flies there
were bred in the open privy vaults
These are very simple measures,
and ones which common cleanliness
should have dictated to us many
wears ago. but if persisted in by all
for short time, the house fly pest
will be a thing of the past. In the
meantime, what measures are we 20
adopt to lessen the pest? Perhaps
the best suggestion is that made by
Professor Hodge of Clark University,
Worcester, who advises trapping tho
first fly which appears in the spring
before she reaches sexual maturity
and lays her eggs. In other words,
catch the great-grandmother before
she begins to lay her eggs.
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garbage barrels with fish heads and
such like and over the wire screening
on top of them to build fly trap and
catch the flies He suggests building
similar traps on our kitchen doors
that when the flies are attracted there
by the smell of cooking they may be
caught and destroyed. In the mean
time, too. all houses should be screen
ed. of course Incidentally this same
screening costs the United States SlO,-
10000 a year and would be entirely
unnecessary if all breeding places
were removed
OF fly pcisons. perhaps the best is
forn1alin Place little in shallow
dish and add five to six times the
quantity of water and sweeten with a
little sugar The flies will drink 1t
and die near the dish. The mixture
is not poisonous to man or the do
meSClC animal
An excellent plan is to place one or
more dishes Of the formalin mixtures
in a room 1t night; remove or cover
all other liquid in the room. In the
early morning the flies will begin to
hunt for something to drink; nothing
else being available, they will drink
this mixture and be poisoned.
To rid a room quickly of flies, drop
a little carbolie acid in red hot
shovel or burn some pyrethrum pow
der in Their DOM. Both these meas
ures neceSsitate the occupants leaving
the room for some time.
Time will not permit me to speak
of the need of sanitary privles
throughout the country. Stiles found
with 1926 farm houses in six different
states inhabited by white people, 1861
(55 per cent? have no privies of any
kind: of 2,499 houses inhabited by
white people. 35 $40 per cent, have
Z absolutely more, and of 232 inhabited
by negroes, rs $40 per cent, have
none. And what of those that do
exist? They are nothing more than
: breeding places for flies. In Arizona
and New Mexico this is an especially
Crying evil in our small unincorporat-
ed towns. The vault is seldom or
never protected and the flies swarm
in and out at their own sweet will.
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