The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-20
SOME ADVICE
TO TEACHERS
OF PENSACOLA
APueLIcITY COMMITTEE OF THE
CLEAN. UP CAMPAIGN ISSUES
FIRST STATEMENT.

At the last meeting of the commit
tee appointed by Mayor Greenhut to
clean city, publicity committee com
posed OF Frank l.. Mayes, DR.. Mallory
Kennedy and L. G. Leech was appoint
cd. and this committee was instructed
| to furnish, through the columns OF the
press. such data as might be useful
TO the teachers in the public schools
I Of our city In instructing the children
| in order that they might better UNDER
estand the objects OF this campaign.
| The committee after careful consid-
Eeration, believes that the following
lfacts should be told the children, in
order that they may understand the
treason for the work they will be asked
| to do as their share in this public
Wealth movement.
First, They should know that flies
Pare disease carriers.
| That they live and breed in all kinds
eof filth.
| That once they become contaminated
with disease germs, they are carriers
/ of disease, and can infect food and
drink by coming in contact with same.
| That they multiply rapidly, each fe-
male being capable of laying $50 eggs.
That they should be kept out of
dwellings.
That they breed in horse manure cow
dung, decaying vegetables, garbage of
ball descriptions, dead animals and hu-
man excreta.
| Their presence is a direct evidence
Hof careless housekeeping, and the ex-
istence of filth in some form about
Fthe premises.
Flies crawl over fruit, when exposed
for sale unguarded by screens, and
AS people do not as a rule, wash fruit
before eating il, this is one of the
ways typhoid is carried, if there hap
kpens to be a typhoid patient nearby,
Whose excreta is carelessly handled.
| Flies will feed on the sputum (spiD
fNof consumptiyes, and the specks of
such flies, will contain live tubercle
bacilii (the germ of consumption
showing that the live germ will pass
Through the digestive tract Of the fly.
They will also carry this germ on
Their legs, and then crawl over food
land infect II.
/ The great secret of how to get rid
eof flies. in cleanliness, and by screening
| all openings of the home, especially
sthe kitchen and diningroom.
Impress upon the children the ne
lcessfty OF looking after the garbage
or that the garbage in them is covered
with lime or kerosene.
Do the same thing with manure
heaps, and remove all manure every
two or three days, and cover 1t with
Look carefully after the cuspidora.
Keep the flies from the sick. Screen
all food.
Teach the children that a certain
breed of mosquito causes malaria
(chills and fever) and by no other
means is the infection spread.
Persons contract the disease by be-
ing bitten by mosquito that has
previously bitten a malaria patient.
IL is therefore important that per-
sons sick with malaria. should have
mosquito nets over their beds, and that
their rooms should be screened.
It Ia most important that well per-
sons should adopt means to prevent
mosquito breeding.
Mosquitoes live in the vicinity in
which they breed. They do not often
fly q long distance. They breed in
water, usually in artificial collections
sof fresh water.
The young mosquitoes or wigglers,
live in water, but they must come fire.
'Quently to the surface to breathe.
COAL OIL on the surface of the
water prevents the wigglers from
and they soon die.
Destroy tho breeding places and you
will destroy the mosquitoes.
How to Do This.
Empty the water from pitchers and
vessels in unused rooms-and from all
tubs. buckets. cans, flower pots, vases,
once every As hours.
Fin or drain all pools, bitches, I'M
filled postholes, etc
Change regularly every day all
water nesded in chicken yards, kennels, |
etc.