The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-18
HEALTH BOARD
ISSUES BULLETIN
Suggestions Made by the Hand
County Board of Health
THE Fly

IN oA>StiifS
places of the fly are eliminated.
Flies and filth are almost synonym
Gus. If there were no filth there
would be no flies. The practical
thing to do is to clean up the filth.
In proportion as we eliminate filth
the fly will be eradicated. A num-
Der of flies may be eXterminated by
a swat" but we need more than
this. The better way to do. is to
starve the fly.
When flies feed upon filth, It fol.
lows they would starve. If there is
no filth for them to feed upon
From the filth in the alley or an open
garbage can, a fly may carry a dis
ease germ to o sleeping baby, or any
other person. Sickness and death
may follow. We wonder where this
disease may come from, for the child
has not been away from the home or
seen a sick person for weeks. The
fly may have carried the germ.
The fly in one day will eat four
times it's own weight and deposit a
speck in every five minutes. Should
this speck when eaten by the fly
happen to be a diphtherla germ, it
remains the same without any chem
lcal change when deposited on the
babies face The fly is bred in filth,
feeds upon filth. and is a carrier of
filth. One pair of flies if given filth
in which to breed will produce more
than n million flies in one season
Not only in exposed garbage do the
flies breed, and from it convey dis
ease. They swarm about outhouses,
open sewers and drains. which have
received countless disease germs
which have passed through the
bodies of sick people.
MOI all the disease germs carried
pass through the body of the fly, for
it picks up and carries on its head
and legs the germ of cholera infan-
tum. tuberculosis, typhoid fever.
diphtheria and many other infectious
diseases. These germs are not large
enough to be see by the naked eye,
but are large enough to be as deadly
as the bite Of a rattle snake. The
fly that creeps oyer the face of a
tubercular patient in a hospital or
home, may deposit a deadly bacillus
on the lips of a healthy person, max
ing another victim of the white
plague.
Do you know a fly is seldom found
forty rods from the filth in which it
was Matched?
Now Ahat is the solution of this
fly problem? A campaign TO clean
up and Grad cate. Have all garbage
put in proper cans and regularly re-
moved. Dispose of all outside closets
possible, and use instead sanitary
ones and ones connected to the sew
er. The remaining ones use freely
chloride Of lime and have them pro-
perly screened.
See that no decayed vegetables or
fruits are dumped into the alley or
side streets by the stores Or private
families, and that all filth be re-
moved. Let each good citizen &C.
port to some one in authority when
this garbage and filth needs atten-
ton. See that stables are properly
cleaned and manures hauled away:
chicken coops and hog pens made
sanitary.
When there is found a carcas. see
that it is buried and covered with at
least three feet of earth. or report
the same. When the Indians come
to our city invite them to some spot
far away from us. to establish their
camp.
By looking after these things
much of the menac to our good
health during the coming summer
will be removed Will not our Com
mercial Club and Woman's Clubs
organize, to create sentiment for
more sanitary conditions here, to
extermlnate flies. and eradicate
weeds. S. r. w.