Middletown transcript., 1915-03-13
mIDD1ErOwH. DEL, MAR. Is, 1915
THE DIRTY DEADLY FLY

are unknown: ''Decayed vegetable
or animal matter is not openly ex-
posed to flies, and the streets are
often cleaned each d+y, nor are
there any open drains in the city to
attract and breed flies. l can only
ascribe the absence Of flies to tide
lack of breeding places. "-Er.
If people could only be persuaded to
give to the PREVENTION of disease
but small per cent of the time, labor
and money they spend in its cure, very
many doctors would have to go out OF
business.
BY prevention we do not mean those
costly scientific campaigns against
deadly epidemics in city, State or Ma
ton by regular physicians with all the
elaborate machinery of a Health De-
partment at their command-such com
prehensive health measures as rid Cuba
and the Canal Zone of yellow end ma
larial fevers, stamped out the bubonic
plague in San Francisco, and that
keep Asiatic cholera and other imported
scourges from our ports.
We mean the simple, practical sort OF
prevention that everybody can use in
any town at small cost and trouble, but
that would yield large and far-reaching
results.
Read our ely Talk" in this issue
giving in few words the startling facts
the disgusting facts-and then resolve
that Middletown will begin at once its
campaign against the dirty, the deadly
fly.
This costly, dangerous housefiy pest
can be largely prevented the first year
by very simple measure, viz, putting
all manure and other filth under cover
so as to keep the fly from Matching hel
thousands of eggs therein.
The fly is now proved tobe the great.
est source of disease known. The germ
origin of nearly all the diseases which
scourge mankind from cradle to grave
is no longer questioned and the com
mon house-fiy is recognized as one of the
principal agents that spread abroaC
these invisible microbes that kill mil
lions in such diseases as scarlet and ty
phoid fevers, ,diphtheria, smallpox, tuber
culosis, etc.
One half the typhoid. and three
fourths of the deadly summer com
plants that Herod-like slay little child
rem in New York City, are caused by th'
flies the people themselves breed by th'
millions!
This awful indictment is true of cite
towns and villages everywhere-tru'
of Middletown. Citizens think over ou
Fly Talk" with its amazing revela
tons and resolve that your town shal
be rid of this filthy curse.
Let the Town Council pass and en-
force with penalties, an ordinance re
4uiring all manure and other filth to b,
covered and made fly tight, and the fl!
crop of 1915 will be cut in half; and ii
two or three years with use of a few
more simple measures, the fly will be
come as scarce here as in Prague
Cleveland and other big flieless cities
Decency should prompt such action
surely, self-preservation from diseas,
and death will do so.
At least IS per cent of all flies ar
bred in manure The intense chemlca
action occurring there evolves the lonl
continued heat so favorable to hatch
ing their innumerable eggs.
For few dollars every stable owne
in town, can dig a pit or make a pc
above ground, always dark and flytigh
at every point, that would prevent tn
breeding of 80 to 80 per cent of tn
flies.
To refuse to pass such an ordinanc
is to say that Middletown prefers to
dirty and diseased, rather than pay
few cents to be clean and healthy!
''Swatting the fly is all right, so fs
as it goes-but one swat of the manur
pile is worth ten thousand fly swattingl
In this fly business most emphaticall
an "ounce of prevention is worth--not
pound but atom of cure" And earl
! ,tMarch is the best time to begin tn
fight.
There are no flies in HOnolulu-meat
ard foods of all kind in their IL month
OF summer are left as open as in our ma
kets in Winter. Why? The stpl :,
manure and filth regulations as 81
forced. If our citizens choose, our
can become the most talked about t tw
Ga the state-as the ''fiielesss town {
lldaletownP'