Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-08
A BETTER BABIES"
CAMPAIGN PART Of
C|TY'S HEALTH WEEK
PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED TO
BEST INFANT S-PARADE WILL
BE HELD THURSDAY AFTER.
NOON.

Better Ottawa babies will be one
Of the important features of heath
promotion week, which will be OBJ
served in Ottawa from May II to IS,
A street parade, a better baby con
test, with three 81 savings account
prizes, and IA weighing and measuring
contest will be the important features
Of the week. Mrs. n. A. Guthrie. who
s the child welfare chairman of the
health promotion week, has practic
ally completed the arrangements for
the child welfare week
The child welfare station will be
opened on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes.
day and Thursday afternoons from
until O'Clock, when the babies OF
he city will be weighed, measured
and given general physical eXamina
ions A careful record will be kept
Of each child. and on Friday afternoon
three physicians will act Of judges to
| examine these records and announce
the three Ottawa babies who can
claim to be the nearest perfect. A
S. prize will be given to the best
months old baby, a S. prize to the
hes. year old baby, and 81 prize tc
he best 2-year-old baby, These prizes
will be awarded according TO general
health standards.
Wednesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock
street parade made up of a number OF
doats filled with Ottawa babies and
! heir mothers will pass through the
! loop and resident districts of the city
| It is likely this parade will be headed
| by 81. PatriCks drum corps.
All mothers in the city are being
urged to enter their babies in the con
test, and to take advantage Of the
| rec contest that will be given durinf
ne first four days of the week, when
the best physicians of the city will
| weigh. measure and examine the
| labies free.
| The three S. prizes will be awarded
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by the Ottawa public health nursing
organization and the child welfare or
| ANIMATION.
Swat the Fly.
One Of the important things whic'
jhould be attended to during the bet
'er health week will be for every man
woman and child to help in the eX
crmination of the rs. Now is tht
ime o get rid Of the big, lazy file
which will be the breeders of millions
which will appear later on. We SHOULD
earn to constantly be on our guart
against the common house fly, which
/ Is always present on careleSsly dis
played foods, carrying on its deadly
occupation of Transporting filth and
disease germs from pace to place
/ In the United States alone 10000
| ieaths annually are due to typhoit
| fever. and the house fly is one Of the
carriers of this dreaded disease. L
! has been estimated that one person
out of each five eventually dies OF
ome disease which is carried by the
! rs.
The fly lays its eggs where the con
| ditions are best fitted for their deYel-
opment. These conditions are ne arty
! deal in stable manure. They also laN
eggs in decaying vegetable and ,tni
nal matter. These eggs hatch into
maggots in from eight to tWentY-four
| hours, and these in turn develop into
tho puma or resting stage. This period
requires five to seven days. Finally
! the papua in five to seven days longer
-ecome fully developed flies. Thus
| YOU will see that a generation of flies
/ is reared in from ten to fifteen days
and there will be ten to thirteen gen
| erations in one season. The number
If eggs laid by an individual fly aver
ages 1870, and four such patches NAV
| be laid by each female. At this rate
of increase the one adult fly which we
neglect to kill in early spring may nc
the cause of the existence OF many
millions of flies by August. This Is
he reason for the slogan, swat th'
fly, and swat him early" 1t has beeh
| SllONI ltldI do many 90 ''''' 'i'''NNtf
or flies in the larva stage, were pres
ent in one pound of manure At th1.
rate there would be 000 in a pil
of .0o0 pounds Think of it! Nearly
half million flies developed from one
| NAL, pile.
There is no more active disease car
rier than the fly. Every fly has about
$4,000 hairs or feelers on its body anG
it is easy to see how it may thus carry
germs. If there is filth pile OF some
sort near your premises and you
sprinkle it with lime or some othel
white powder you will soon find tiie
in your house with this white powder
on their feet, which proves conclu
sively that they come straight from
the refuse piles into your house, and
possibly right on your very table and
your food You cannot by any pos
sible means keep the fly clean unless
you do away with filth. You canno.
hope to kill all the flies, but you can
destroy their breeding places. You
can prevent their access to human
food You may successfully combat
the fly by prompt removal of all
refuse. garbage and rotten substances,