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Show FLIES SPREAD TYPHOID FEVER Investigations of Kansas State Board of Health Show Responsibility for Dread Disease. Chart "Dentlis from typhoid," KiUisus inve.stipiUon 1912-13. This illustrates il-lustrates iin investigation curried on . by the Knnsas state board of health. The figures In this chart represent an average of the deaths from this disease dis-ease during the years 1912 and 1913. The highest deatli rate from this terrible terri-ble fdth disease comes, as this experiment experi-ment shows, when flies are most nu- I DEATHS FROM TYPHOID KANSAS TEST 1912-13 FLY SEASON ! JAN FEfr HAS APR MfiYIJUN jUftUG SEP OCt'nOV DEC ' 1 1 M l I .: llMiilMlill KN5. B"D HEALTH merous, in the months (if August ana September, and decreases through October, Oc-tober, November and December, to January. Winter typhoid is often traceable to epidemics resulting from the fly-borne typhoid of the summertime. |