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PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER, 1910. 



Dr. Joseph S. Neff, Director of the Department of Public 

 Health and Charities of the City of Philadelphia, gives the 

 following directions in regard to house flies, which we quote 

 from a Newspaper article: 



"The advice of the Department, to select most carefully the 

 dealers in food supplies from whom you buy, was followed 

 out in part, for those dealers who kept their bread in paper 

 bags, their poultry and meats free from flies by screen or 

 paper, their berries, fruit and vegetables off the pavement 

 \\ here dogs and other animals could not molest them and where 

 they were free from the germ-laden dust of the streets, notic- 

 ed this year a marked increase in their business. By next 

 Spring it is planned to have at least one hygienic store in each 

 locality, where the public appreciate the importance of clean- 

 liness of their food suply. In this way the careless, slovenly 

 dealers will be forced to eliminate dirt and infection or go out 

 of business." 



This is one method of attacking the house-fly problem and 

 much can doubtless be accomplished in this way. 



Now that people are gradually being educated along these 

 lines, there are a number of them who will not resort to res- 

 taurants where the flies in their bare feet, are walking all 

 over the food and suiciding in the soup and cream jug. 

 Neither is it a pleasant idea to think of eating food, exposed 

 on the street, and covered with dessicated horse-manure, dried 

 sputum and other interesting street products. Of course the 

 prevention of flies would be a more logical way to accom- 

 plish the object, but that desired end can only be brought 

 about gradually, as the people awaken to the necessities of the 

 case. 



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