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Show FIGHTING THE FLY. With the season just closing there comes to a temporary conclusion con-clusion the most vigorous, concentrated, determined warfare ever waged against the house fly, more appropriately and correctly known of late as the "typhoid fly." It seems that if anything definite about this pest has been discovered, it is that the fly spreads contagion, and especially the typhoid fever germ. In Albany the authorities came to this conclusion, and in Washington, where there has been an outbreak out-break of typhoid, the doctors in general share this opinion. By systematic work earned on by the medical men and others interested in-terested in the general welfare, the public has been systematically advised of the dangerous character of the fly and has been taught how to fight it. Its life history has been explained, and the necessity shown of destroying its breeding places. . The season is not yet ended, end-ed, but it is not too soon to consider the manner in which the fight against the fly is to be carried on next year. Medical science in these days is concerned even more with the problem of preventing disease than it is with curing it. The brightest minds in the professon are engaged in seeking out and localizing the germs of different diseases, and then in learning how to destroy those germs. It has been found that innoculation is practicable in combating combat-ing other diseases than smallpox, and there is constant advancement. Sometimes, however, the efforts of medical science are baffled by the indifference of the public, and until lately this seemed to be the case with the common fly. Now, however, the public is awake, and it has been making a splendid fight. In a few years, with continued well-directed well-directed effort, the disease-carrying fly may become a positive rarity. i |