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Show Insects and Infection. To prevent Infections reaching the human hu-man body through the medium of insects in-sects means that they shall be extermi-natsd extermi-natsd or else shut away from the body Itself; also from food and .water. Scientific Scien-tific sanitary Investigation has proved that to get rid of flies and mosquitoes, the breeding places of these . insects must be destroyed. Flies breed In stable, sta-ble, manure piles, barnyards, and wherever wher-ever there are masses of filth. Mosquitoes Mosqui-toes breed in marshes and swamps, old rain barrels, eaves-troughs and wherever wher-ever there Is stagnant water impregnated impreg-nated with decaying organic matter, writes Dr. Kate Lindsay In the Housekeeper. House-keeper. The sanitary lesson for the home-maker home-maker to learn is to avoid the marshes and drain them before building and to keep free from all pools of stagnant water, wa-ter, great or small, on the premises, and keep the stables and barnyards fre from fermenting masses of decaying organic or-ganic matter. To keep these Insect pests out of the house. It should, If possible, be so planned that the prevailing winds will not blow from the stables, barnyard, or any.marsnes In the vicinity toward it. and then In summer use' wire screens on every door and window as well as Inclose the porches around the house. Italian physicians experimenting In the Pontine marshes to discover the cause of Roman fever, found the peasants living liv-ing side by side In ordinary canvas and in tight screen-protected tents, contracted con-tracted this disease In the unprotected tents where mosquitoes had free access, and escaped infection In the screen-protected, where they were excluded. A nicely-screened, shaded, cool back porch Is a'sanltary blessing to the overtired over-tired farmer's wife. There she can prepare pre-pare a great part of her food and have a comfortable couch to rest on, free from insect and annoyance. The children chil-dren can play there and thus keep out of the kitchen heat and at the same time avoid noxious Insect Infection. The screens are within reach of every American Amer-ican householder. |