Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-16

he greatest antiAy crusade that
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4 lA@Wr&lI the world has known is now get
III nj ting under way in a multitude of
IL I'll American cities and smaller COM
IL M munities, reaching from Seattle
IA # and San Francisco to Boston.
IL # During recent years physicians,
IL b psychologists, sanitary engineers
1 and others concerned with Ques
- tons of public health have made
eeaseless effort to arouse the American people
concerning disease and death travelling in the
tracks Of the common househy, or typhoid fly"
as the United States government does not hesi-
tate to call 1t in its official printed documents.
Little by little the country has become
quainted with the danger and now entire COM
munities-hamlets, villages, cities aike-are I'M
dertaking systematic and complete determination
Of the insect. The fly has been recognized a
carrier of disease for many generations, and
some authorities, like Jean Dawson. the Cleve.
land biologist feel satisfied chat It was DO recog-
ntsed even m Bible tnies Nut Saeves IA es1 49, !.
Practically an entire Great nation svaaeneeE TO
.sle absolute necessity Of hghting the ny to the
%eath of driving it out of existence.
Moreover, it was left for New York patholo'
gist, DR.. Ferdinand NJ. Jeffreys of the Polytechnic
Medical school and hospital, to formulate reply
to the old question, "Of what use is the Ay?"
According to DR.. Jeffreys it has very important
use in acting a danger signal which cannot
be disregarded with impunity
wherever you find the fly" he says you also
ind filth And where you find filth. you find dis.
ease"
Not merely typhoid, but other highly danger
GUS intestinal diseases now known to be
spread by flies and germs of tuberculosis, cho
era infantum, spinal meningitis, infante paraly
sis, are likewise carried far and wide by the
little pests, State boards of health county COM
missions, municipal health departments, private
organizations of men and women in all stations
of life printing and distributing pamphlets
on the subject, having lectures delivered before
audiences of children we'll OF adults, ex-
planning various methods of poisoning, trapping,
and "swatting' flies In many cities prizes of
money have been offered for the largest number
of flies killed in a given period. In other cities
and towns prizes offered for the best essays
written by school children to the dangers Of
flies and how to get rid of them.
North Dakota has issued two important health
department bulletins. spread broadcast through
out the state, one entitled Fly Habits" and the
other "A Fly Catechism," in which are answered
in simple language questions concerning flies
which the youngest child may understand
The United States government through its
Farmers Bulletin No. 412, makes out complete
case against what it terms the typhoid or house
fly"
virginias state board of health has issued at
least three bulletins and circulars devoted wholly
or in part to the subject.
In addition to quarterly publications. one well
illustrated, Iowa issues shorter folders telling
Just how to deal with the fly nuisance.
The Chicago board of health. through its school
of sanitary instruction, publishes and distributes
articles and cartoons the subject, as well a
concise list of Hints to Householders."
The Ohio state board of health has also been
busy in the matter and has reprinted large num-
bers of Dr. c. o. Probsts practical paper, THE
Fly as Disease Carrier"
Michgans state board has come out with an
important quarterly document on THE Anti-Fly
Crusade"
Pennsylvania devotes an entire issue of its
large Health Bulletin to an essay easily under
stood, which is called The Common Fly: How
1t Develops, Why 1t Must BE Destroyed and
How to Destroy It."
South Carolina. Texas, and almost all the other
states in the Union have been doing their utmost
to educate the public concerning the dangers Of
permitting flies to exist. But with the exception
of a single fourpage circular the state of New
York has done nothing in the matter that has
been pressed vigorously by the country gen
orally. This circular is brief document entitled
THE Filthy Fly" and is issued by the Publicit,
and Education Department of the State Board o
Health
1t is said that by means of a red powder scat
tered over piles of ghyaage and other filth hie