Show MAKE WAR ON ONWARD FLIES WARD OFF DISEASE In n order to make this community a better place to live in we must declare war on the house fly at once If we do donot donot donot not slip up on him and strike the first hard smashing blow he Is gol going g to come at us in overwhelming numbers How may we successfully fight the fly By destroying or removing his breeding place the manure pile pUe removing removing removing re re- re- re moving all garbage and making the privy vault proof fly and by keeping our yards and alleys allays clean We must screen our houses and use the swatter and sticky fly paper without let Where Is the fly born In filth generally generally generally gen gen- In horse manure and outhouses sometimes in the flesh of dead and rotting rotting rot rot- rotting ting animals never animals in lq any clean wholesome place The life cycle atthe of at the flys fly's birth runs about ten days from the time the egg is laid until the mature insect Is born A maggot is hatched from the egg The maggot becomes becomes becomes be be- comes a pupa a n. state corresponding to the tadpole state stale in frog life Ufe and the pupa becomes the mature fly that helps to make life Ufe miserable for us In warm weather Flies Files Live In Filth Where does the fly live Where there Is filth and there Is nothing too filthy for the fly to eat He eats clean food also but his special delight seems to be wallowing in filth then buzzing Into the house and wiping his feet and wings on substances you are about to eat Watch him and see for yourself Think of the most sickening disgusting disgusting disgusting dis dis- dis- dis gusting places where you have seen flies Think of them until your palate is light and the pit of your stomach ticklish For If you think hard enough about this dangerous nasty insect pest you will help fight his whole tribe with all your might The flys fly's favorite place of residence Is In the manure pile the vault privy-vault the garbage can and the spittoon But Buthe Buthe Buthe he Is a restless Insect and unless unless un un- less h he e can wander w wan a n d er more or less freely d r rho r ho he Is unhappy So when the fly l tf tires res of the theman q man manure u r e pile the v vault privy r the garbage I lU lUcan can and the spittoon he makes an excursion Into the kitchen dining room and bedrooms of the nearest residence I I He Breeds Disease What does he do in these places of off exploration He wipes his feet on the food toad bathes In the milk or drowns in It ft and annoys the sleepers If lt f there is a n sick person around a consumptive consumptive consumptive tive for instance he alights on the the patients patient's lips or invades his sputum cup and takes lakes on a load of deadly germs This he distributes on the tho food on the baby's lips Ups or on your own if it you are not very careful to shoo him away A busy deaths death's head Is the house fly He killed more American soldiers in inthe inthe inthe the Spanish-American Spanish war than the bullets of the Spaniards and was the direct cause of much of the typhoid fever in the tho United States la last t year Ho He cannot be Ignored safely The only way this town can effectually effectually exterminate flies files is to make an org organized effort Our municipal authorities authorities au au- au- au and health officers should map out a campaign Immediately and enlist the active aid ald of everybody inthe in inthe inthe the community I |