Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-30
"CLEAN-UP WEEK
CAMPAIGN is ON

Clean-Up Week is upon us, May l
to s. We trust that every family
and every citizen will clean up front
yards, back yards, cellars and mid
ways and make Waterville Spot
less Town" by May Sth. On that
date the Board of Health may send
inspectors to anyones cellar, attic.
stable or yard to see if we have done
our job right in this cleanup cam
paign. The real citizen, of course.
will and others must clean up-and
all done by May Sth. Clean up all
rubbish and stuff and burn or cast
away.
This is for the health of all. the
good of all and must be done. 1t
is of no use for the tidy man to
clean up his yard and manure pile if
his neighbor does not do the SAINT.
If stable manure or any filth or de-
Caying matter is allowed to stand in
open pens or piles or anywhere where
flies can get to 1t, il is a menace to
the health of the whole city. The
house fly lays it's eggs upon horse
manure, human excrement, hog man
ure and to some extent in COW and
chicken manure. In fact, in any
filth whatever, for it breeds in Stops
and fermenting vegetable material
anywhere and everywhere. One fly
will lay about 100 eggs at one time,
when it can find an appropriate place
to deposit its eggs. The eggs usu-
ally hatch in about "a hours and
the maggots grow rapidly. Expert
ments show that the shortest time
from egg to adult fly is eight days,
and 12-day records are very common.
And in very few days the adult
fly of the new generation is ready
to deposit it's own eggs, so there is
abundance of time for the develop
ment of 10 to Il generations every
summer. But flies cannot breed with
out proper breeding grounds. and
that is whore our Clean-tp Week
can put the house fly out of business
to large extent. 1t is. therefore,
up to the citizens of Wateryille to
see that all manure and breeding
matter Is removed. or kept in fly
tight screened pens or covered barrels
'AAA ei'hp itliloNtu VI ltll. II tliIS Is
done 1t will mean the stamping out
of typhoid, dysentery and many 9TH
err diseases, especially those of chill
dren. These diseases are not sent bv
providence, they are bred in our
back yards, our cellars and our man
ure heaps Look after them and there
Will be fewer deaths and fewer doc
tors hills and ho,fnr-
In this as in no other thing mo man
liveth to himself alone" Your filth
may make my child sick, my filth
may carry disease to your family.
Screening our windows is well and
necessary, but to stop the wholesale
breeding of flies is far better. 1t is
not necessary to tell here how flies
carry disease on their hairy legs and
I bodies after they have crawled over
disease laden filth. How they walk
around the tops OF our milk BOTTLES
and over the food we eat, leaving the
germs for us. AS long as flies are
flies, and breed unchecked. we cannot
expect to escape harm. If the breed :
ing places are not cleaned up and
made not there" we shall suffer.
This next week let every live citi-
zen take a hand and really clean IN
all Nth and rubbish air out and
clean out all cellars, let in the sun
and air, the broom and mop and el-
bow grease. 1t will do the lob bet
ter than doctor or nurse can. Pre-
vention of disease is always better
IMAM the cure. Our cleanup week
ana the antifly crusade is a matter
OF public interest and should be sun
ported by the community as a whole.
and engineered by the health Off
GERS. And they will see that if is
done
CITY GOVERNMENT OF WATEP-
VILE,
BOARD OF HEALTH.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
MtlTROPOL1TAN LIFE ms co
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT COMMIT
TEE OF VAUDEVILLE WO-
MANS CLUB.