Show SANITARY Health Protected by Screening Out the Flies 1 BY J. H. PAUL I The Independent is not so modest as to fail to mention its leadership on the question of Or i January of this it published a prepared L by J. H. and this article appears to have stimulated L every other paper in Utah to go and do Since the appearance our article on that subject more has been published in Utah papers on the subject of the common fly as a carrier of disease than in all the previous history of these same A careful reading of their various articles shows that they do not compare favorably with our first publication on the they have added little or and have omitted that was contained in our We therefore republish the article as the best thing that has yet appeared on this vital Editor To the Editor of the Your invitation to discuss the topic which I consider of paramount importance today in this sounds like a For what is real With most it is the with most it is the to wear predicament in which they imagine with the youth it is dancing or love but with your obedient it is sanitation the scientific cleanliness that insures Numerous forms of disease are bred only in filth and only because of a lack of due Three Kinds of Cleanliness It is said somewhere that there are three ways or degrees of being there is soap and water cleanliness the keeping clean of floors and window for the sake of the second kind is beauty cleanliness the washing of the house furniture the oiling or daubing of these exposed surfaces in various ways to strike the the third and real form of cleanliness is the scientific in by the use of the germs of disease i L L are destroyed or excluded kind last mentioned is the concerns all of the other are mere fads that occupy of people at a stage of development they possess no other than a 9 value or interest in the seiM sense is the question that I open here by presenting phase of it which comes to f as a regular part class work in nature study The First The first and easiest step j is to screen the out of our houses and to them from breeding about stables and tries to be clean but cannot r self of the numerous ij germs called which to the spongy cushions on and to the hairy covering cm Every time a housS crawls over our dining leaves in its trail numerous to small to be seen with aided but potent they find conditions their Typhoid fever would be cally abolished the in towns and of the w ing of the house and ter task would be m cost little and entail buU A recent lecture by before the writer's class in 3 study dealt chiefly with was somewhat as What Flies M All flies wings occasionally are the only two-wl they are the They have sucking mouth 11 and they pass though some of larvae already hatched Some other two of the wings so i it t they appear one of the a pair of knobbed I called halters or powers of hind Flies many species that it is l here to indicate their They are much SS I'S possess little of the s P of butterflies and beetles K the crime flies and hoe attractive most of the popular as sub- are not ML k of No Use to the aw regarded merely as that 2 Et as a be-st of their supposed services Now it is entire groups arc very The Hy is cue k most famous enemies ibe The Louse is i carrier of many of typhoid fever and is car-id from diseased cattle tc beings by the bite of the The which is a or in- is the only means by fever am be f fly of South Africa Tj the germs of the sleeping toss from of the to those of human and also cattle p infected to found k bt y sheep often causes i death of and those and cows cause these nub A purulent peas of the eyes among the km and the mal- ft town as the in been shown to be j i by j house the worst of hu As early as B to its agency J pread of bos-the Civil But b of various diseases which we eat is what Fruit t we shall first notice i u- are of I are fruit is being ally where i forming froin its 1 W their eSBa in be found about dishes con- taming and They are also attracted to foul substances and so may carry The Stable Stable flies resemble house and are mistaken for About one in a hundred of the flies in a house may be stable This fly can or puncture the skin with its saw in order to suck up differing in this aspect from the house which cannot It is larger than the- house fly and lacks any of the yellow eolior worn by the latter on the sides of the It differs also in its way of flying against a window it goes upward with its head against the while the house fly usually creeps up or flies Its bite is annoying to live it comes into houses just before a hence the old begin to bite before a The Common House flies comprise over 98 per cent of those found in They breed like the stable and in the same places in decaying animal and vegetable especially in stable manure and in other forms of They are rapid one female laying from 50 to which hatch into larvae in eight they pass into in five and into adults in five days so that a generation of them is produced in 10 The eggs are laid in horse a quarter of a pound of which has been found to contain of pupae or Since the house fly breeds only in these its control is a simple If all the animal excrement about stables and outhouses is put into a tight box daily and sprinkled with chloride of the breeding of the insects is safely Typhoid Typhoid fever is our greatest western disease It can be controlled arid 90 per cent of it prevented by active measures against the house The fever is never contracted unless a person swallows some of the typhoid which then breed glands in the human intestine called The germs live in the digestive fluid secreted by these glands and destroy the rupturing the smaller blood-vessels and causing If they work into he outer covering the larger blood-vessels are and the patient The germs pass out with the if not is promptly visited by these creatures do not clean their feet sufficiently to remove the numerous germs of ail sorts that cling to but scatter them over everything upon which they When they go to the food supplies upon tables and they leave thereon the germs of nameless it may but certainly of typhoid if they have had access to the sick room or to the refuse from When the germs are swallowed along with some of them may reach and if they they will develop and produce For avoiding typhoid fever the rules Eat no fruits or food that has been exposed to boil the water and accept only certified and sterilized and with wire screen doors keep out all especially from the sick Though a person may take the disease from impure milk or from water contaminated with typhoid yet in the West it is the fly that is responsible for nearly all our typhoid and for about 85 per cent also of the diseases of the digestive tract among children in the Flies Have Of the red spots sometimes seen on the the government is comforting to think that the house fly has these parasites which torment him Such retribution is And there is another comforting house flies die of fungus especially in the flies will be found behind the picture frames or in covered with a fur-like sub which is the manifestation of the fungus disease wi aas killed dead flies will be seen with their bodies swollen and appearing mure or less These have been killed by another fungus Other Common The blue-bottle fly or which is green or and larger than the house lays its eggs in any exposed meat It is easily kept out by |