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Show HOUSEFLY NESTS III FILTH-HELP TO KILL HIM The housefly is a foul and dangerous little pest. The female lays her eggs . In manure, in human excrement or In the flesh of dead and rotting animals, sever anywhere else. The eggs hatch Into maggots and the maggots feed on the filth until they sprout wings and become flies. The flies swarm into sur homes, bringing with them the eerms of many diseases especially typhoid, consumption and dysentery which they deposit on our food. Many of our homes were saddened last year by death resulting from dis-Bases dis-Bases spread by flies. Therefore the housefly is our deadly enemy and we Dught to kill him off as far as possible before warm weather comes. To do this effectually will require the co-op-sration of the whole community. Cleanliness, generally speaking, is the fly's greatest enemy, but if one man 3leans up his place removing all barnyard filth, keeping garbage cans covered, etc. and his neighbors on sither side do not follow suit, the one. man will not be protected from files ind disease. This war on flies is a job for the whole town, and it is a big one. ' it is luggested that our local jritles or lome of our ; citizens call a meeting meet-ing and iiiake plans at once to start the- campaign for fly extermination, uet us enlist the aid of the health of-Jcers, of-Jcers, the physicians, the merchants, :he lawyers, the mechanics, the worn--sn and the boys and girls. It will be necessary to have a num-Jer num-Jer of committees to look after the many angles of the work and see that ; proper preventive measures are taken :o remove the opportunities for flies lo lay eggs and hatch them. Swatting the fly is ineffective you only kill 5ne fly at a swat. But if you begin iarlier by spraying manure piles and .he contents of outhouse vaults with i?rosene or with chloride of lime, so hat fly eggs will not hatch in these masses, you prevent the birth of millions mil-lions of flies. The state board of health will be ?lad to send us all kinds of informa-:ion informa-:ion helpful in carrying on a fly war, If our local doctors have none on hand. After the campaign organization Is tormed, about the first thing to do la to get reliable information and put It In the hands of our people. Who will make the first move to start the campaign? |