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Show FLIES. The festive house fly has appeared with the earliest ear-liest warm days. Xow. the house fly is u nuisance, as everybody knows. Further than this, the rly is a disseminator of disease, as everybody ought to know. It has been conclusively demonstrated that the house rly is as much a purveyor of typhoid fever and other diseases that have their origin in filth as that the mosquito is a disseminator of yellow fever in-the south, and that malaria is carried from one person to another by another form of mosquito. Before this discovery was made by medical science, the house fly was very generally considered a nuisance, nuis-ance, and efforts were made to keep the pest out of j the house and away from the food supply. With this latest advice on the subject of house flies there j is an added incentive to get rid of the pest, or at j least to exclude the insect from the houses and food I i supplies. j The state, through its dairy and food commis- sion, will look pretty thoroughly into the condition j of dairies and butcher shops, and will no doubt use vigilant care to keep these sources free from the disease disseminating insects, and their efforts should be given the assistance of an intelligent public to combat the pest. Of all the insects which make life uncomfortable, uncomfort-able, the fly is at once the most innocent looking i and most generally considered harmless. The medi- ! cal profession, however, is now attempting to re- I move this popular error, avd it has beeii suggested i that the name be changed from "house flv"' to ! "typhoid fly," a change which would probably do ; more to overcome the popular notion that the inject ; is a "harmless critter" than auy learned essay. Let ' it be known that the breeding places of the fly arc i in filth, and that the pest revels in filth, and no other incentive should be necessary to cause people with the slightest regard for their own and their children's health to take precautionary measures to keep them out of the house. It is time to put up screens and to lay in a supply of fly paper, but more important, it is time to clean up the premises about the homes in order to get rid of the breeding places of the pest. |