Show lei Z 6 HE BE greatest anti fly crusado crusade that the world has known is now get tl als g under tinder way in a multitude of merican cities and smaller communities muni ties reaching from seattle and san francisco to boston during recent years physicians bacteriologists pani sanitary tary engineers and rid others concerned with questions of public health have made ceaseless effort to arouse the american people concerning disease and death traveling in the tf tracks icks of the common housefly or typhoid fly as the united states government does not hesitate to call it in its official printed documents little by little the country has become acquainted quain ted with the danger and now entire communities murk muni it ties es ha hamlets ml ets villages cities alike are undertaking der taking systematic and complete extermination of the insect the fly has been recognized as a carrier of disease for many generations and somo some authorities like jean dawson the cleveland biologist feel satish satisfied led that it was so recognized even in bible times but never before has practically an entire great nation awakened to the absolute necessity of fighting the fly to the death of driving it out of existence Afore moreover over it was left for a new yolk pathologist dr ferdinand M jeffreys of the polyclinic If medical edical school and hospital to formulate a reply to the old question of what use is the fly according to dr jeffreys it has a very important use in acting as a danger signal which cannot be disregarded with impunity wherever you find the fly he says you also find filth and where you find filth you find disease not merely typhoid but other highly dangerous intestinal diseases are now known to bo be spread by flies and germs of tuberculosis cholera In antum spinal meningitis infantile paralysis are likewise carried far and wide by the same little pests state boards of health county corn commissions municipal health departments private organizations of men and omen nomen in all stations of life are printing and distributing pamphlets on the subject having lectures delivered before audiences of children as well as of adults explaining pla ining various methods of poisoning trapping and swatting flies in many cities prizes of 0 money have been offered for the largest number of flies killed in a given period in other cities and towns priar s are offered for the best bessas written by school children as to the dangers ot of HOB files and how to get rid of them north dakota has issued two important health department bulletins spread broadcast throughout the state one entitled ply fly habits and the other A fly catechism in which are arc answered in simple language questions concerning flies which the youngest child may understand the united states government through its farmers bulletin no makes out a complete case against what it terms the typhoid or bouso fly virginias state board of health has issued at least three bulletins and circulars devoted wholly or orin in part to the subject in addition to quarterly publications one vall illustrated iowa issues shorter folders telling just how to deal with the fly nuisance the chicago board of health through its school of sanitary instruction publishes and distributes distribute articles and cartoons on the subject as well as a concise list of hints to householders the ohio state board of health has also been busy in the matter and has reprinted large numbers of dr C 0 ts practical paper the ply fly as a disease carrier state board has come out with an important quarterly document on the anti fly crusade pennsylvania devotes an entire issue of its large health bulletin to an essay easily understood which Is called the common ply fly ilow how it develops why it must bo be destroyed anti and how to destroy it south carolina texas and almost all the other baates in the union have been doing their utmost to educate the public concerning ning the dangers of permitting flies bics to exist but with the exception of a single four page circular tho the state of new york has done nothing tn in the matter that has been pressed so vigorously by the cor country generally this circular Is IB a brief document entitled the feltl filthy y ply fly and Is issued by th publicity and education department of the stat board of health it I 1 is salo said that tha by means of a red powder scattered over piles ot of garbage and other othe filth flew Z L have been traced in many oases cases directly into sick rooms as well as to markets and fault stalls stalla where foodstuffs acre ft ere displayed without being screened by such means as this flies were traced during an outbreak of typhoid fever in plattsburgh Platts burgh N Y the local authorities thought that drinking water or milk or some like supply was as infected but an investigator from new york went to the saranac river into which the sewage of plattsburgh Platts burgh was carried and from there he traced flies as they went into a moving picture show attended by a large audience and he traced the flies as they went from the movies back to the river countless instances of the spread of various diseases have been recorded all over the country and as a result instead of being regarded merely as a harmless though annoying little pest tho the house fly Is today considered one of the deadliest enemies man has to contend with ith far more dangerous than war for the fly Is everywhere every summer excepting in enlightened communities like cleveland ohio which is rapidly becoming pretty nearly a city last year experiments were undertaken in a number ot of places to exterminate flies files newspapers of worcester mass offered money prizes for the largest quantity of flies caught and the results were astonishing one enterprising lad ad of twelve years won the first prize of when lie he delivered ninety five quarts of flies but it was found out later that in order to succeed he had actually gone into the business of breeding flies in heaps of fish offal altogether the city of worcester caught and killed forty bushels of flies in a few weeks for obvious reasons those interested in fly extermination are not offering prizes in the same way this year for dead flies in a good many communities are offered for blocks of houses or for farms or barns that have no DO flies on or in them organizations like the womans comans municipal league of boston are paying for stereopticon ster lectures delivered before all sorts of audiences and are getting boy scouts district nursing associations school children and others at world work in the effort one of the scientists most actively interested is C F hodge professor of biology at dark clark university who has accomplished remarkable results by screening houses to keep flies files on the outside by killing winter flis flies when they awake in early spring and crawl out of cracks picture moldings mol dings and other dark places where they spend the cold weather and by bv catching in traps of his own design million of young flies before they can get to kitchen dining room or restaurant one of the most moat effective steps taken in tho the campaign of education is due to mr hatch who sent a man to london at his own onn CX Dense and there had made microscopic photographs of flies and their dangerous activities from which a moving picture film was constructed the film shown all over the country is believed to have done more than any other one thing to bring millions of people to realize how great is the danger from flies and how necessary to remove it one of the most moat ingenious methods for teaching children facts regarding flies is seen in a small pamphlet prepared pic pared ared by jean dawson of the cleveland normal school who has adopted the question and answer plan pan of instruction after explaining in this war flies pre are dangerous liow how spread disease where chev spend the winter and what chat thoy they in do in spring the little book tells about their breeding their food and how they carry dirt as well as disease the closing questions and answers are as is follows 20 90 can a family escape the dangers from flies by screening them out of the house no not if thoy they use food over which flies havo have fow aimed or fallen into 21 do flies carry sickness and death to many people in the united states there are nearly five hundred thousand cases of typhoid fever yearly in the united states and nearly deaths much aluch of this distributed by flies forty nino t thousand ho sand infants die annually of ente enteritis ritts or suin summer merl complaint the germs of oaf which are all carried to the milk by flies flies are now itow known to be the most moat deadly enemy of man they kill more peo egr 9 az A V K pie than all the lions tigers snakes and even wars 22 have flies always been such an enemy to mankind yes but a great many have died about fo four ur out of five children in cleveland live to be five years old many of these deaths are due to flies carking disease germs to their food 24 how is it possible to protect ourselves more from flies than we already have when we thought flies were merely annoying we could afford lohide ourselves behind screens now that they have been proved to be our deadly enemy we must come out and fight them in tho the open 25 how can this be done in three ways a by killing all the winter flies that havo have been hiding in buildings as fast as they como come out b by cleaning up all manure and filth in which flies may breed c by keeping traps set in covers of garbage cans and on porches where the flies are thickest to catch them before they can enter our h homes oe ag what particular good would come from killing winter flies killing the flies that live over winter means killing the mother flies before they can lay eggs in the alic spring I 1 27 if we did clean up all the manure and filth from the neighborhood would not flies swarm 1 in from other parts A fly seldom travels over yards from its ita breeding place 28 18 1 with what are the traps batted baited if used in the cover of a garbage can the garbage is the bait if used otherwise bread and milk is in an attractive bait 29 will N ill all the flies go into the trap yes ye if there is no other food about 30 has any one ever succeeded in keeping his house free from filles without screens yes a number of people have used the method above indicated and have done away with screen windows and doors 31 will the city of cleveland ever be free from flies yes just as soon as every one does his part in his own house and yard cleveland will be a city of lyless stores markets and homes one of the most interesting experiments made last summer was a highly successful effort to teach children tile the truth about the necessity of exterminating tho the typhoid fly among those furthering this specific plan of education was mr hatch who offered two sets of in each of a number of cities including new york milwaukee kalamazoo salem mass lass wichita kansas city ran kan I 1 INT memphis emPhis and st louis to children in tile tho seventh and eighth grades of public schools he offered a prize of 10 and to pupils in the fifth and six grades ho he offered a first prize of 5 and a second prize of 3 in the aggregate he spent in fit this way some many thousands competing one result is that an army of children have acquainted themselves niall alth the fly and what it does to man this of course was the main object sought secondly the fact that a new yorker was offering his own money in this campaign an and succeeded in arousing the spoilt manifested am among 0 ng children all over the country caused local ne newspapers ws health bodies educational institutions and other individuals in many places to go int anti inti the matter on their own responsibility this year it is not necessary for mr air I latch hatch or adf an one else to offer prizes to the country in general the leaders of public opinion and public spirit in one city after another are offering prizes themselves As a result cfall of all the agitation this year t vea c a hy fly crusade throughout the land such as was waa probably never seen been before befaro world in the history of the |