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Show . HOUSE FLY IS FRIENDLY WITH CRAVD1CER Little Pest Is Largely to - Blame for Spread of Tuberculosis. And atill the fight against the . fly continues. Tha city health department says much can be accomplished ia preventing pre-venting disease if purchasers will refuse re-fuse to buy food staff from grocers, butcher or peddler who do not take proper precaution to keep their produce prod-uce ao covered that flies cannot get at it. The health department, in demanding demand-ing eleanlinen on the part of all dairy-mea dairy-mea especially, and fa the manufacture manufac-ture and preparation of foodstuffs generally, gen-erally, has this nd f disease prevention, preven-tion, in mind. Wherever fly alighta en eatable, it ia aafe to say that the inaee leave from ten to 10.000 disease germs. If the condition pr the person eating this food is auch aa to make him auanep tible to disease, he is stricken down with suffering and probably death results. re-sults. Hons die are specially fitted for the carrying of germs, aa their bodies and leg ar plentifully covered with - hrr-and bristle. indeed, w fly-ear-rise germ aa naturally aa a dog carries flees. It would he hard to Dad a receptacle better fitted for the transporting of germ, ao the expert ay, and careful bacteriological examinatiooe have ahowa a high aa 100,000 disease germs oa eae fly 'a body. A fly ao infected with germ scatters them wherever it roes aad leave a trail of disease la its wak - Think of nch fly falling into tha milk pitcher, or alighting on the baby's bottle, or crawling ever year bread and butter. Neither is it enly the germ, carried by their hairy bodies that are a son it of danger, bat fly specks frequently kava th -living germ of disease ia them. The fact that tuberculosis hat become so prevalent aa to be known as the "great white plague" ia undoubtedly due, physicians say, ia a large meas-nre meas-nre to the active agency of flic ia carrying th germs of the disease to the food of well people. The sputum of a roaaumptiv person is simply swarming with the germ of the dread dieesse. Fliee. ponnee onto this, draw it Int their bodies through their sucking mouth part, aad speed off with it sticking to .their hairy lege and bodies. Alighting on food ia market or (tore or kitchen, they leave a trail of thee most deadly germa wherever the 1 tonch. The disease that mora thai any ether ; ia spread by flic is typhoid fever. This ia owing to the fact that tb In- ' factions material by which the disease ia spread ia present in tbe eieremeat of the peraon suffering from tbe dis-caa. dis-caa. In tb history of sanitary eel- . ace, scores of esses ar on record where outbreak of typhoid fever wr directly traceable to fliee. Indeed, it haa been ao conclusively proved that fliee carry and spread typhoid ty-phoid fever germ that it haa been siiKKesiea dj nr. u. u. noarara, or Washington that tb boas fly be known in future a the typhoid fly. With aurh ineoqtrovertfble evidence of the deadlines of the fly as haa beea produced bv eareful study aad iaveeti-gatioa, iaveeti-gatioa, it become th duty f every ntisen to do his share ia stamping out the pest. Locally the flfht is but beginning, be-ginning, though before the end of th fly eason it i believed that every man, womaa and child ia the rity will have' enliated ia the Aght for tbe extermination extermina-tion of the danaereua little nest. |