El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-03
SWAT THE ENEMIES WITHIN.
THE FLIES AND MOSQUITOES
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ISN'T often that swat-the-fIy campaign is started
the end Of the summer, but there Is need for
Military surgeons and doctors IN civil life have
discussed together condition here which they consider
needs immediate reCtfying and weeks killing campaign
against flies and mosquitoes IS their suggestion They have
designated the week Of Sept Do
The doctors unit in declaring the unusual number
Of flies and mosquitoes IN the city to FL PasO
because Of their disease spreading prOcves The military
doctors are concerned with the danger Of spreading
disease the soldier camps That is the grave ea
ure Of situation Of which the mlder is the discomfort
Of having the insects buzzing about
Ordinarily Fl Paso has almost flies IN comparison
with other cities and still fewer mosquitoes. Sometimes
hardly mosquito heard from summers end to the
other. We have been proud of almost complete i'm
munity from these pests Advice swat the fly has been
given the beginning Of each summer but really there
little need for it here.
But have both flies and mosquitoes, not 10
mention host of little insects which seemingly have moth
ing but fly light IN the eve Of
mobile driver who IS afraid he is about to collide with
another car Lacking any other explanation TO lit the
case IS fair guess the whole insect visitation the
result of the rains rather than German intrigue and that
especially the mosquitoes came from pools Of water
which collected and stood for days the lower ground
of the city The pools pretty well dried up now but
the mosquitoes and the flies in general circulation
II may be, too that people living in south part Of
the city and parts Of East FL Paso less careful about
exposing ybTesding garbage than they ought be. ANY
damp refuse is picnic ground for flies and flies
hatch ont, grow, lay eggs and produce still flies
marvellous rate. few weeks viii increase the fly popu-
lation many fold as we have for ourselves.
The army does its part IN keeping down the evil All
disposed Of without being exposed to flies, while garbage
burned The fly IS the worst enemy the army has and
the mosquito ranks close second Naturally, when the
army careful fight fly on its own
count It doesn't appreciate influx Of them from
IF you know Of any mosquito breeding places around
your premises, fill them up If you know of any which
the city ought 10 take Of report them that the
garbage tight to seams, kept vel covered and
clean the outside IF flies persist IN cOngregatng
the can little crude carboc acid viii help scatter
them. If you know Of a stable, chicken yard other
Place for couning animals which kept in unsanitary
state call to the attention of the report It to
the city health officer
And during this week make the fly swatter work It
is taken Tor granted that every family has been killing
flies sufficiently to prevent discomfort; that IS to say
when they get the house. but unusual efforts will help
still XIII al that get in the house and then 60
outside and kill those lowering around the OF
COURSE Try to XIII the mosquito before he bites you the
baby You don't know what germs he may plant when be
bites but you may be he isn't model of cleanliness
scarcely than is the filth loving fly If each Of 10000
people viii kill ten flies day for week So
three four million flies viii from troubling.
Russia has developed great faculty for telling the
truth in official reports since deposng the The very
Of the situation is invariably contained the Rus
sian, and not the German, reports.