The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-04-04
The W0mans Club
edited By The Womans Club

Vic VIM ASSao N~NH
his fellowman, and who will leav'
nothing undone or unsaid to better tn
condition of the great masses of igno
rant and careless people. DIR. Locke
said of the fly; ''Pride usually keeps
the front yard clean, common sense
should keep the back yard so. In
many of the towns l visit the chief rea
son for complaint from sanitary
standpoint in the residence districts ex.
listed between the back door and the
alley fence. Uncovered garbage re-
ceptacles, or garbage dumped on the
ground to be scattered by stray dogs,
afforded banquets for mYriads of flies
bred in piles of stable refuse heaped in
alleys and at the rear of livery stables.
Open closets and others infrequently
cleaned, l found to be so common that
| feel will be neglecting grave duty
if do not devote time to call attention
to the dangers they present. Their
existence is obnoxious enough to any
neighborhood, but the stencil emanat-
ing from them is the least of their
evils. Recent discoveries in science
which all newspaper readers are fami-
liar with show them to be the source
of diseases that take enormous tolls in
lives each year. The manure pile be-
hind our barn and the livery stable in
the next block have been proven be-
yond the possibility of a doubt to be
the chief breeding place of flies. 1t
takes a week from the time the eggs
are deposited for the fly to mature and
set forth on its mission of dispensing
disease and death in its wake. We
can forestall it's dread visits by the
simple process of thoroughly removing
the piles every four or five days. / am
glad to say that many of the towns |
visited have adopted this method.
Every town should see that this is
done at the diaries that furnish its
milk supply.
The fly as a typhoid breeder is so
familiar to scientists that they have
renamed the common house fly the
typhoid fly" Exhaustive studies of
its habits, propagation and career have
been made. The German government,
recognizing the danger attending its
unhampered course, has provided penal
ties so severe as to seem harsh for
anyone neglecting to remove all sources
that may be used as fly breeding places.
Ninety per cent of the typhoid flies are
bred in horse manure 1t is criminal
for US to longer neglect our manure
piles. The stable fly, familiar to all of
us as the nuisance that bites when the
air is superheated with moisture, ac-
cording to the United States Public
Health Service reports, is a common
carrier and prolific source of infantile
paralysis. This fact alone should
awaken US to the Importance of con-
trolling wagon yards, livery stables and
our own barnyards, and privy vaults"
He spoke at length of the unscreened
kitchen that was not twenty-five feet
from the open vault, and the flies fit
ting back and forth from one to the
other. He did not blame the flies. In
spreading of tuberculosis he said in
part;
1.-The tuberculosis campaign waged by
doctors, by newspapers and civic or
CARNATIONS, have awakened people to
the necessity and Importance of fresh
air in homes and schools, but from the
number of shades drawn down for days
and weeks at stretch / am inclined to
believe that people are not aware of
the beneflcent influence of sunlight in
the home. 1t is as important to give
your home sun-bath as it is to give
your body bath. Sun, air and water
are the three greatest gifts to man.
We place too many distractions to
their free use and enjoyment.
. DIR. Locke told of the hookworm and
the havoc that it brings, many mistak-
ing its SYMPTOMS for consumption and
other diseases. Of it he said:
1.-The hookworm is an intestinal para
site-a worm about one-third of an
inch long when it is grown. When of
size, it enters the body
most often through the skin of the feet
because the feet come in contact. with
it in pulluted soil. The female worms
in the body give forth an incredible
of eggs which hatch when de-
posted on the soil, and while yet in
visible to the eye enter the feet.
Thence they make long journey
through the body till they reach the
small intestines to which they cling
and give forth a poison, which pro-
duces the disease, and lay more eggs
and thus repeat the endless round of
their parasitical life. AS many as
4, 500 worms have been expelled from a
single person; they have been known
to live in person for ten years; and
they are so prolific that large part of
the inhabited soil of the earth between
Sc degrees north latitude and 80 de-
grees south is polluted with Them"
The pitiful thing about hcokworm is
that so few know that the cure is al
most as simple as the pullution. DIR.
Locke did not say SO but we know