Show r t Li HOUSE FLY COSTLY Almost Incredible What Damage Is Being Done by Pest Expert Bays People Lose 170000000 Yean of Life and 20000000000 by Insect Extermination Huge Task New York One hundred and seventy sev-enty million years would bo added tc tho lives of the people of tho United States or 4000000 lives of the present pres-ent average length and 20000000 000 would bo saved If the house fly woro annihilated In these startling figures Dr Daniel D Jackson a member of the Merchants Mer-chants association water pollution committee told tho Now Jersey Sanitary Sani-tary association his estimate of tho damage by the common household fiv Its Is almost Incredible what damage dam-age Is being done by the post Dr Jackson said Figures help to convey con-vey It In a way but no figures can tell the whole tale However when I toll you that If the pestiferous household fly could at one swoop be annihilated two years would bo added to your life my life and that of every man woman and child In tho world That means something And when we go further and find that this means the saving of 4000000 lives of the present average length or a total of 170000 000 years of life that means a great more Dr Jackson Is an authority second to none on the subject For years heI I has Investigated the fly In Its bearing on disease and he Is convinced that In doing away with the pest we will also do away In a very largo degree with typhoid and other contagious fevers fe-vers In Investigating tVs pollution of tho waters of New Yore nurbor Dr Jackson Jack-son found llles tA re most numerous In the neighborhood of sower outlets I and that In tho same neighborhoods typhoid fever and other Intestinal die eases were most prevalent Thousands Thou-sands of llles wero caught and examined exam-ined and upon them millions of disease dis-ease germs wero found In the paper delivered before tho Jersoymen Dr Jackson told of one model tenement block In Manhattan where more than 100 cases of typhoid feVer developed In the recent epidemic epidem-ic I The health authorities were Inclined In-clined to ascribe tho fever to milk but It was shown that other neighborhoods neighbor-hoods geetlng milk from tho samo sourco had little fever Investigation showed that two stables In unsanitary condition were I Immediately behind tho model tenement tene-ment and millions of flies swarmed from tho two places carrying on their legs and wings tho filth from tho stable refuse So It was shown that tho flies had caused the epidemic As to the possibility of exterminating exterminat-ing tho fly family It Is shown by statistics sta-tistics that the task Is a monumental If not Impossible one A few months ago State Entomologist Uruiior of Nebraska Ne-braska said a single house fly could bathe ba-the progenitor of one hundred and ninetyfive quadrillions of flies in ten generations which means in ono years time One hundred and ninety five quadrillions Is about 195000000 bushels of flies |