Evening journal., 1915-04-22
Want HOUSEWIVES
IN CLEANUP Campaign
Can Make City Sphinx and
Span in a Jiffy if They
So Desire
BEGIN EARLY
WAR ON FLIES

Wilmington residents can do much
toward making the work effective by
taking an active part in the week
clean up campaign which starts next
Monday. said J. Austin Ellison, OF the
cleanup campaign committee today.
''lf every housekeeper in the city
will do his or her part in collecting
refuse. rubbish. trash. empty tin cans,
garbage and all the accumulations OF
the winter. and see to having the coll
lected refuse. etc. removed, the work
will go a long way toward improving
general health conditions, 10 say moth
ing Of adding attractlveness TO the
CITY generally.
Everybody who reads nowadays
knows that many diseases are incu-
'bsted IN and disseminated from heaps
Hof decaying refuse. piles OF empty tin
cans. etc. and the miscellaneous rub
bish that Is bound TO accumulate dur
ing the winter unless extraordinary
care is exercised TO prevent such oc-
cumulations. only by the removal
and proper disposal of such disease
breeding materials can the conditions
which make for sickness be done
away with
flies' Breeding Places.
For instance. everybody knows, or
should know, that flies breed In ex-
posed piles of stable manure and in
decaying animal and vegetable refuse.
From such disgusting breeding places
the insects enter the homes, restau-
rants. markets and other places in
Wilmington bearing on their feet the
filth from their places of incubation,
as we'll as the germs of disease they
have collected i'm crawling over such
matter Even the most unimaginative
individual. in the light of present day
knowledge cannot fail to revolt at
the idea OF flies propagated in such
places entering his dining room and
wandering at will over the butter, into
the cream jug. across the fresh bread
or finding "A saccharine sepulcher In
the syrup jug.
"Flies spread contagion of many
kinds. notably typhoid fever. Some
species of flies are believed TO be re-
sponsible through their bites, for In
fantile paralysis
Mosquitoes are known to cause
malaria by injecting the hacilli OF the
disease into the blood when they bite
human being Not all species OF
mosquitoes. and not even both sexes
OF the same species, spread malaria;
hut few persons not trained ubserv-
ers. are able TO detect the difference
between the malaria mosquitoes and
those that merely torment by their
biting, blood-sucking proclivities.
Mosquitoes In Stagnant Water.
Mosquitoes must have stagnant
water in which to breed Empty tin
cans hidden In the weeds. as well as
fragments Of broken crockery and
the like. which catch and retain rain
water. afford ideal. IL limited. breed
ing places for the insects from which
they are enabled TO emigrate In clouds
10 every. home within a radius Of
several hundred yards OF the spot
where they breed.
by the removal and proper dis
posal of all decaying refuse of what
ever character the number OF flies
may be materially reduced. because
II the flies find nowhere 10 propagate
there must be fewer flies Mosquitoes
cannot hatch In the stagnant water
accumulated IN empty tin cans and
the like III there arc no empty tin
cans and stagnant water handy The
conclusion is obvious eliminating OF
reducing the number of such places
Of incubation must reduce the fly and
mosquito population of the State and
this in turn. cannot fail 10 reduce the
amount of sickness for which the in
sccts are responsible"