Middletown transcript., 1915-03-13
STARTLING FACTS
Concerning The Filthy, Deadly FIv
Scattering Diseases
THAT WILL KILL THOUSANDS

AAAA WILL MILL THOUSANDS
The most deedly living thing on earth
Is the hy-the harmless fly! That is
the conclusion, not of sensation moneers
put OF cautions, fact-testing scientists
IL Is more dangerous than all the moi
sono's reptiles and man-eating tigars
OF India and the ravening wild beasts
oil Africa put together!
Until lately, the fly was regarded as
harmless nuisance, a disagreeable
ulrty annoyance, but nothing more
Now, though, it has been indicted
ana convicted of being a wholesale
murderer of mankind, and the increas-
ing efforts the world is making to ex-
terminate it, are not merely because it
Is dirty, costly pest-though that
were surely enough-but because il is
the greatest carrier of many deadly dis
eases such as typhoid, scarlet and other
IeVers, dlphtheria, smallpox, tuberculo-
SIS etc which needlessly slay thousands.
Flies, more than all other insects and
ANIMALS put together, carry and distri-
Cute all these deadly diseases. This is
a new fact, the proof that the common
house fly is so dangerous is only a few
years old, even some doctors formerly
believing they were useful as scaven-
gers, and so lessened diseases! Ten
years ago maybe 5, few doctors would
have thus accused the fv.
You unbelieving folk please read
these statistics of the health officers of
New York City: One half the deaths
from typhoid fever are due to the germs
distributed hp flies; three fourths of
the children dying from Summer COM
plants, would never have been sick at
all had their food been kept from flies!
The cruel thing about this curse is
that no matter how clean Mrs. Brown
Is in all her household affairs within
and without, if Mr.. Jones across the
street or in the next block, insists ON
Keeping a filthy fly-breeding nuisance
OF an open manure pile, she and all her
family, even her little babe struggling
to live through its second summer, must
run tue peril or Y ALI
The number of disease germs on a
single fly have been proved to be from
$50 to 100000. The average is about
l,25O, 600 to the fly. A large number
of these enter the system when one
drinks glass of water, or eats food
into or upon which fly has lit.
Flies caught in the rooms of patients
sick with typhoid OIL scarlet fever, tu-
bercuosis etc, when examined under
the microscope, are almost always
found covered with and filled with the,
specific bacteria or germs of those dis
eases.
From the sick-room, from the rotten
filth of the garbage pail. from refuse,
manure, and all kinds of offal, the
death bringing fly walks over the bread
the butter, the meat and the fruit, on
the table, and alights on the lip of the
pitcher, milk or water, leaving every
where some of these horrid disease
germs its furry feet had gathered upl
Don't forget, you mothers with lit
tie babes so hard to bring safely
through their second summer, that it is
the dirty fly, the needless fly that be-
fouls your food and kills your little ones
with bowel complaints. Don't forget
that from the out-houses, and from
every sort of filth, it goes straight to
the baby's bottle, just as it flies from
the noisome sink or puddle to your din
ing table and tastes and wanders over
the food before yourself and family eat
it.
Finally, remember these victims cf
these diseases are NEEDLESS victims.
your little babe that died of Summer
complaint, ought not to have died, for a
very little money and care would have
prevented it all. and rid both homes and
Middletown of this dirty. deadly fyl
Would you ike to drive the fly out of
our town then insist on your Town
Board passing an ordinance making all
manure piles and other filth, FLY TIGHT
and at least l-2 of the plague goes this
year, and all of it in years moreI
Read our editorial on the DIRTY, Dead
ly Fly"