Show DONT DON'T IGNORE FLY MENACE THIS SEASON Many persons do not realize what a serious menace the fly is to the health of this community It is characteristic of the average man to Ignore this kind of danger until it threatens his own family Oh the fly may be the means of carrying a fatal disease to so some e puny person persall you reason perhaps but theres there's no danger of his bringing it to me me-I'm me Im I'm in pretty good shape I eat three square meals a day and sleep all right That is a aa characteristic attitude of soldiers Rather it used to be beso so Doubtless you remember the awful tollof toll tollof tollof of life Ufe taken among the soldiers encamped encamped encamped en en- camped at Chickamauga during the Spanish American war If It you do not you can easily look It up Those boys I II in blye byte pied died like Ilke flies files Flies caused the death of most of those stricken I with typhoid and dysentery It came about in this way Human excreta carries the bacteria of typhoid fever cholera dysentery summer complaint complaint complaint com com- plaint tuberculosis and and intestinal diseases diseases diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases of other varieties Flies feed on human excreta as you know If you have kept your eyes open The Lesson of 1898 Not a great deal about the value of jamp camp sanitation was known in 1898 The American army medical corps was not organized as it itI itis I J- J JIs is now The moba mob mob- W place at Chickamauga was not clean Garbage I and sewage were not destroyed as they are now In that large bod body of men It was inevitable that some should be bo disease carriers The waste matter which they threw off acted as an Incubator incubator incubator in In- for the bacteria which it U car car- ried Flies and other insects but especially especially especially es es- es- es flies files swarmed around the filth sinks and fed They were a frightful annoyance at meal time and they were the army's most deadly enemy for they distributed dangerous germs among all tho men As a result fever and bowel diseases became almost an epidemic As a nation we were taught a solemn lesson about the menace of f insects Our army medical men learned more in the Philippines In Cuba in Porto Rico and in the Canal Zone about the relation of flies files mosquitoes and lice to the spread of disease than had previously been learned in two or three thousand years Cle Cleaner ner Than Homes Visit any of our army encampments today They are kept cleaner than the average housekeeper keeps her prem prem- Special attention is given to the sanitary disposal of at garbage of sewage sewage sewage sew sew- age and of other waste matter coming from the tho camp hospital Elaborate means of at protection against flies mosquitoes mos mos- os- os I lice Uce and bedbugs are arc taken taken- but flies flies files are considered the most filthy and dangerous from the medical point of view It is safe to say that if it this community community com com- should operate co-operate and act at once so as to clean up the town thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- with special attention given to the breeding places pl ces of at flies files the average of serious Illness here would be reduced 50 per cent for the months of June July August and September Such a clean cleanup clean up campaign is not Im im- im possible It means the spraying of manure piles with a simple kerosene solution every day or so frequent removal re re- moval of at manure piles ned I toilets covered garbage cans and the use of fly swatters and fly paper by everyone I |