Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-27
BY DIR. A. ID. GREGG,
anCe County Health Officer.

Now is the time to begin the war
on flies, as prevention of breeding is
easier than control of the flies after
the hot weather comes on. Study
these figures few minutes, suppose
we go into the fly raising business be-
ginning with one pair of flies. This
mother fly will lay approximately 12O
eggs every few days for a period ex-
tending over to weeks, 120 by
equals 48O children conservative esti-
mate. In 10 to II days these flies are
laying eggs, counting half of these as
females, and in 80 days you will have
little swarm of 1920 flies as grand
children OF your original pair. In an
other 30 days it's possible to have
more than five million flies from your
2 flies of 60 days ago. Now suppose
you had a start with 10 females in
stead of one, and Oh, we'll, you count
them.
Flies will breed and hatch much
faster in hot weather than in early
spring. so control measures are more
effective to begin now. The eggs will
hatch in to hours into the stage
known as Larvae or little maggotts;
in to days these change to the
pupae stage which is a little brown
oblong shell. After this stage is reach
ed the fly will mature in 4 to five
days even if it's surroundings are
dried, these pupae really crawl to dry
spaces if possible. In to days the
crust breaks and out flies the adult
fly, ready to produce more flies. Hen
derson has not as yet tanished from
it's limits the horse and COW stables,
the tavorite breeding places o. the
common house fly. Flies are a distinct
product o, -.lh, and will breed in var
-o@s kinds Of filthy places
'0T0e ll'nS car, injection ny their
bite, but they are not much impor-
lance to the people of Henderson, as
the non-biting fly or common house
fly. But flies are Just little vultures
and ScavengerS and carry filth am
all manner disease germs on their
feet and probiscus or mouth, and so
deposit these germs on everything, as
food fingers and toys of c-:r children.
They fly from outside filth laden
through open windows or doors even
down chimneys to our dining tables.
Horrible to think of, yet true, of so
many of our homes. For try as we
may when warm weather comes we
have flies, for they will travel p mile
or more for food. Flies have been
known to travel eight miles in a day
therefore our immediate neighbors
are not always responsible for what
flies we have
With these things in mind the Lo-
cal Health Department had some new
Health Ordinances passed which be-
come effective April LIST. The enforce
ment of these will help control the
fly eveil according to how much the
public will cooperate with the Health
Department in obeying these regula-
TONS
Typhoid fever, tuberculosis, dysen-
terry and many intestinal infections
are the diseases in which flies play a
very important part in our land to-
day. The steady reduction in cases of
tary sewerage and most of homes
some sanitary form of sewerage dis
posal is proof that diseases are fly
Torn. Sanitation does not prevent fly
breeding but prevent fly infection by
hun sn excreta.
We will soon have flies with us so
let's prepare our homes now, so as to
exclude these little vultures. Good
thorough screening is our only hope
all outside doors and windows to be
screened even a chimney should have