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Show i ihe effective method of encouraging I the Hies to kill themselves. J I There are other sanitary regula- ; I tions. though that the health report says ought to be- exercised. Here are some of the ways suggested: suggest-ed: Screen your windows and doors before be-fore fly time. Screen all food and especially mills. Keep flies aw ay from the sick especially espec-ially those 111 with contagious disease. Kill every riy that enters the sick room. Catch '-lie flies with sticky flypapers, fly-papers, traps iind liquid poisons. Eliminate Elim-inate the breeding places of flics this la important. The following y.houlrt be done: Sprinkle chloride of lime or kerosene kero-sene over contents ot garbage boxes( and other refuse. Keep garbage receptacles tightly covered. Clean the cans daily. Clean, the boxes every week. ( Pour kerosene Into the drains; keep' sewage system In good, order; clean,, cuspidors every day; keep a five per' cent solution of carbolic acid in them all the time. Don't allow dirt to accumulate in comers, behind doors, back of radiators radiat-ors or under stoves. Ho not allmv decaying material of any sort lo accumulate on or near your premises. Remember: No dirt, no flies. I THE FOR EIGHT ON FLIES HAS ARRIVED SCIENCE MUST COME TO AID OF PEOPLE. Report of Chicago Health Board Contains Con-tains Formula for Poison Which 18 Effective. I Chicago, May 10. It is tlmo to begin be-gin the tight ou flies. Health Commissioner Com-missioner Evans has sounded the warning in his weekly bulletin on Chicago's Chi-cago's health. Death lurks on the feet and wings of the innocent looking houso fly, ho i-nyt, and science must come to tho aid of the people to fight the diseases that travel from Eic"t rooms to tho cribs of babies on these flies. In the war ou the fly, the report prescribes the best deaths for tho ln-txcts. ln-txcts. It t:Ives the, formula for a poison that will kill the flies and not I endanger human life. I A dram of i.otash dissolved In two 1 ounces vi water and awevlcned, is |