Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 38 | Household Muscid Given Distinction

HOUSEHOLD MUSCID GIVEN DISTINCT! Is Now Designated as "Typhoid "Ty-phoid Fly" by Experts of the Government. Did you ovor hoar of a "typhoid fly?" Perhaps not, for tho namo is a now ono, but tho species is the same old fly that has been known for 3'ears as tho "houso fty." Scientists of tho United States department of agriculture agricul-ture aro responsible for tho new name. In a special order received 3esterday at tho local federal offices of the department depart-ment of agriculture, it is stated that hereafter all government publications, in referring to flics, will use tho term "typhoid fly," iu order to impress upon up-on tho general public the danger of these pests. Tho order Btatod that a special bulletin, bulle-tin, giving practical methods of preventing pre-venting the breeding of largo numbers of flies and eradicating thorn whon i (hey appear, will bo issued soon by the department, and that tho campaign against flies has already been takon up in tlie south by government men ana will this month be begun in tho moro northern states. In labeling tho houso fly as tho typhoid fly, tho department heads state that flics aro tho most active breeders of that form of fover, Asiatic cholera and, to some extent, of tuberculosis. All omnloyeos of tho department arc urged 0 assist city, county and state officials in tho "swat tho fly" campaign.