| Show 1 I General Campaign Against I WILL BENEFIT PUBLIC HEALTH I Carriers of Deadly Germs Th Ti-i flood of oC inquiries that are being re received received re- re at the office of at Dr T. T B B. Beatty secretary of at tho the state stata hoard of or health concerning the state stale wide swat the fb fly contest content seems sufficient evidence on which to base the prediction that all records s for similar cont contests ts held in the United States State will be smash smashed d. d Tho The contest contest con con- test which f Is the first one of or state wide rangy to be held i In the United Stat States 8 is arousing arousing- interest in every section of th the state Naturally contestants have Ij an eye to some fome of or the 1000 which L. L and A. A Simon of ot thu tho Paris Parl Millinery company have donated do do- natel natee for or the tho occasion lon to the exclusion of or everything else Therefore knowledge of the good that will result from tram a a. wholesale slaughter of the death dealing fly ly may be beof beof beor of or Interest to contestants and other reul- reul dents of or the state as well Regarding this subject Frederick J J. J Haskin the noted not nolo noted ed writer says In his book Tho The American Ameri Amen can Government It HIt has lias been estimated that if It the tho flies files and mosquitoes of the country could be banished from the United States at one ono fell fen swoop and If all an the people of the country could be he Induced to observe the principles laid down In ordinances nances It would result in a a. saving ever every year ye of or enough lives to make an arm array army as great as ever over marched to a single battle battlo In n the thc history of ot America One authority goes even further than this and declares that a quarter of a a. million deaths annually annually annu annu- ally In tn the United States are rc to be laid at the door of tho the mosquito and tho the fly alone alono The principal prosecuting attorney attorney ne ney In the case of or the tIme fly and tho the mosquito mos moe- quito toda today IH IR the tho bureau of ot entomology of or the tho department of agriculture A most r remarkable case it tt has baa made out against th tbs tb's s fly 1 Loaded With O Germs The iTh bureau caused members of the then n fly tribe to be captured In various parts of tho the country and they were searched for Incriminating evidence Stor Stored d awn away on tho the fuzzy bodies and legs of the culprits culprits cul- cul found untold millions of germs In n some Bomo In instances a single n fly carried more noro than a l million These were tIles me eau caught ht In carefully sterilized nets so that none lone of tho germs found on them could be laid at the time door of the nets Then each CI fly was placed In tn a n separate stir stir- bottle and an nit accurately measured quantity or of sterilized d water was put Into he tho bottle with It Mr fr FI Fly was Vas allowed to o swim around round until exhausted and a drop of at tho the water at extracted d and the germs on It counted A careful record was vas kept of oC tho the showing showing- made h by each cacti fly Or and th the lowest number was SOD 00 while sonic porno of them showed germs And then there has been an aim untold amount of or other evidence e gathered During Dur- Dur InK ing ng tho the Spanish American war lime was In the latrines 3 and the tiles files that thal swarmed around the mess meRs tents would have ha lime plainly visible on on their feet In n New York filth mth was with r red d Ink and put on the streets Flies Files soon showed up In th the house with red on nn theIr leys The bureau of entomology o as pro ing attorney against the tJ fly prepared severa several sev sev- e era eral pamphlets relative to the C case and is read ready to make mako any r reader ader the sitting judge who will take time take to write for or these briefs in the tho case of oC The People Peoples vs s The FJ Fly It also Is ready to submit evidence evidence evi evi- evi- evi dence deuce to an any reader In tho case of The Time The vs Mosquito |
