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Show FLIES MENACE YOUR LIFE I Sanitary Experts Declare They Carry Loathsome and Deadly Diseases The Babies Are Easily Infanted With Germs. 1 1 && AXITA11Y exports today declnrc Hint flics arc W 4ST responsible for the transmission of nt least ten & fflSJL different diseases deadly to human beings. JiffN JMi&& These experts are not only our own American Afe" health authorities but are also numbered 7Kp among physicians and specialists who are working their heads off to prevent the spread of terrible diseases, like cholera and typhus, in devastated Europe. v The lly feeds on human excreta, sputum, eajjS P"8 blood and rotting flesh. Human excreta WW commonly carry germs of typhoid fever, VJ7r CMolcra dysentery, summer complaint, con- &kM- sumption and intestinal diseases. Sputum is coughed up by consumptives. It contains tuberculosis germs. Pus from sores Eoro eyes, anthrax-infected cattle, gangrene, "bad" diseases, etc. is alive with, deadly germs of various kinds. One flyspeck recently examined at the state board of health laboratories contained 5,000 tuberculosis germs. Suppose a fly thus laden with a deadly burden of disease bombs comes into your dining room and alights on the bowl of bread and milk your little boy or girl is eating. That child may develop any one of a number of serious diseases. dis-eases. The baby may die. It may be blinded. It may be crippled for life by tuberculosis of the spine. It may suffer years from some vile form of skin disease. c Your baby, you understand, has not the resisting power of a grown-up. Won't you join the army of fly-fighters? I" I |