Show KILL THEM OFF most deadly thing on earth is the common house fly every hand should be against him J i i t some people are still in the dark as to the danger from house flies many more continue indifferent health authorities warn the people but do not have sufficient time or authority for 0 action fighting ing 0 the fly is still an individual and spasmodic procedure that which is business in a new and startling sense remains as in less important matters nob odys business the mississippi state board of health adopts the most novel method of combating tile fly it issues MIMS a cartoon entitled three dangerous toughs the three are the morphine bottle the housefly and the tile malarial mosquito the fly is the largest and occupies the central position extermination of the housefly is of course impossible at present but a vast diminution of its numbers is both fc isible and important j the chicago department of health issues a brief and well summarized list of rules for protection against flies screen all food and keep loop flies away from it keep the streets clean keep stable manure breeding place for flies in a vault or pit or screened enclosure and sprinkle its surface with inith chloride of lime quickly cover up food after a meal and bury or burn table refuse keep damp claths cloths near meat dishes milk jugs and other food receptacles burn pyrethrum thrum bruni powder in the house it ii ill kill most of the flies and those it docs does not will fall stunned when they may bo be sin swept ept up and burned sticky stick fly papers arc are a second rate palliative remember that the exposure of any kind of refuse refue near a dw tiling furnishes a breeding place for flies and if food is ekpo expo exposed ed flies ill dl deposit germs upon it from whit was recently stated in these calums it should be clear that all summer long flies are carrying filth and disease from garbage about hotels restaurants and homes to food fliegl flies Flie sl 4 remarks a publication of the tennessee state board of health are fond of feeding on sputum in this way tuberculosis germs are carried to human food to be sw allowed by every one and as if this fact were not sufficient to awaken the people to the necessity of fighting the fir dr jackson in a report on the transmission of disease by flies says regarded in tile the light 1 of A recent fa knowledge the fly is more mor e linger danger 1 y pus gus than the tiger or the cobra worse tb in that lie is at least in i our climate much more to bo be feared than the mosquito and may easily casily bo be classed as tile most dangerous animal on earth it lias has lyen ly ix en for some time thoroughly uell all demonstrated that lie is one of the chief agencies in ill the spread of asiatic cholera we now know him to bo be the source of a high per of the cases of ta typhoid fever and the chief disseminator of diar 5 rhocal dika diseases seq from chich about children die annually in new 4 york the Tho sanitary authorities of england and other foreign countries aie L w circulating information as to lw ho to Wt tk r destroy flies A fly fighting committee has been formed in washington to instruct tho the people how bow to fight tho tile pests posts the united states department of agriculture issues a booklet with illustrations showing farmers how to arrange their stables so that flies may not breed in them the most important thing in stable management is to take care that the droppings are swept daily into a covered receptacle where they are not exposed to the sunlight some of the best hints are contained in the tile d directions of the washington fly fighting committee as fol lows heat a shovel or any similar article and drop thereon twenty wenty drops of carbolic acid the vapor kills the flies 69 A cheap and perfectly reliable fly poison one which is not dangerous to human life is of potash in solution Dis dissolve one dram in two ounces of water and add a little sugar put some of tins this solution in shallow dishes and distribute them about the house sticky fly flypaper paper trips traps and liquid poisons are among the things to use in killing flies but the latest cheapest and best is a solution of or formaldehyde in water agpoon A spoonful of this liquid put into a quarter of a pint of water and exposed in the room will be enough to kill hill all the flies ag to quickly clear the room u where here there are many flies bum burn pyrethrum poa powder der in the room this stupefies fies the flies and th they ey ma int then be swept up and burned if there are flies in the tile dining room of bour our hotel restaurant or boarding house complain to the proprietor that the premises promises are not dean clean I 1 I 1 the greatest desideratum at present in tins this city and elsewhere in this state is the tile prompt remon removal al of stable manure to its proper place on the fields or into piles where its screening froba flies should be made compulsory by law horse manure should never be allowed to accumulate every few days it should bo be removed and thinly spread on open fields or put into sheds screened from flies it will pay farmers well to do this for the mere more sake of con serving their soil fertilizers which now quite generally go to waste it will pay every city to insist thit that this course is pursued with manure and garbage As to open vaults of out houses a few shovels ful of dry finely pulverized dust taken from the street will completely guard against the breeding of flies and will also deodorize any kind of filth and garbage the dust must be dry and it must bo be applied daily A very little iq is sufficient why will not town councils pa sand 8 and enforce tins this simple requirement so easily complied with N ith and so vital to the health and cle in linens lines of our sinal lei cities deseret news s |