Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-28
STAR POSTER OF VALUE
IN CRUSADE ON FLIES
Requests for Copies Received From
Cities Contemplating War
on the Pests.
Total of IS, 900 Already Distributed.
Preventive and Suppressive
Measures Explained.

Recognizing in The Stars ant-1y
poster. Prevent the Fly" most eff
fective means of education against this
insect, health societies and civic or
CARNATIONS in Washington and other
cities have applied for copies of the
poster this year.
Seventy-five thousand of them we're
distributed last year, and an additional
supply of twenty-five thousand has been
obtained and will be given out upon
request this spring.
Request for five hundred copies has
been received from women's organiza-
tons In Westernport, Md. which have
allied for an extensive war on flies
Several recent cases of typhoid fever in
Westernport have had the effect of
impressing the citizens of that com
munity with the Importance of immedi-
Of the greatest Of all disease-spreadins
agencies.
Requests From Other Points.
Similar requests have been received
from the health departments of Pitts
burgh, Pa; White Plains, n. Y, and the
AntiTuberculosis Society Of Kalamazoo.
Mich. One hundred copies yesterday were
sent to Washington Normal School. No. 2.
The Stars poster. which was prepared
by DR.. Arthur L. Murray of the District
Of Columbia health department, contains
a number of fly don'ts." Among them
are: Don't permit flies in your house,
don't permit flies near your food, don't
permit flies near the sick, don't purchase
foodstuffs where flies are tolerated, and
don't tolerate hy-breeding places in your
neighborhood.
Under the heading Of What to Do to
Get Rid of Flies" the poster contains the
following suggestions Of preventive and
suppressive measures:
Preventive Measures.
Files do not normally travel more
than 200 to 300 feet from their breed
Ing place, therefore the elimination Of
breeding places in your neighborhood
viii greatly mitigate the fly nuisance.
Flies breed by election in stable
the next best medium available which
offers the two factors necessary for the
Matching Of their esss-heat and mois-
ture.
Favorable breeding places: Manure
bins or pits. open garbage pals dead
animals, decaying vegetable matter,
fermenting refuse piles Permit no
breeding places near your premises.
.- Suppressive Measures.
Screen your homes.
Screen all foods, milk especially.
Screen the bed of the baby and those
who are Ill.
Swat or otherwise destroy every fly
that gains entrance into the house. A
good fly poison may be made by using
e pint of milk. L pint of water, tea
spoonfuls of formaldehyde and tea
spoonfuls of sugar Small squares of
bread saturated with this mixture
should be placed in shallow dishes
throughout the house and on the back
porch. Keep out of leach of children
and animals. Sticky fly papers can be
used to advantage. To clear the rooms
OF flies use carbolic acid. heating a
shovel and pouring on twenty drops Of
the poison. The yapor will kill the flies
Fly traps well baited will capture
many flies. Traps should be placed in
stables, in yards and on porches, so as
to capture the flies before they enter
the house.
DR.. Murray's Prediction.
DR.. Murray. who supervised The Stars
first anti-f1y campaign three years ago,