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Show WAR ON THE FLY. According to dispatches from many of the eastern cities the anti-fly anti-fly crusade has been commenced and a bounty of four cents a hundred hun-dred is being paid for dead flies that are brought to the Health Board. This anti-fly crusade would be more effective if the health offi. cers of cities would see that tho cities are kept clean. It doesn't do much good to ldll flies, for while a hundred are being collected a thousand are born. Tho thing to do is to get rid of the breeding bed3. Almost invariably these are in stable refuse and garbage. In a spotless town there should bj few, if any, flies and a higher health rate. That flies spread disease admits of no doubt. They have their ways of getting at the sick or the excreta from the sick, and then they carry infection to the food. Unaccountable outbreaks of disease in families are probably due to them. In an even more marked degree than mosquitoes they spread dangerous maladies. When civilization makes the world as clean as it can and the progress of civilized life is shown by increased cleanliness of persons and homes the fly will become, if not a negligible quantity, a lessened lessen-ed scourge. But a great deal remains to be done before a state of cleanliness can be even approximated. |