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which did not control the flies had anywhere from one 
to four cases in each family. He points out that in one 
year typhoid causes more deaths than yellow fever in 
fifty years. 
The Georgia State Medical Association as early as 
April, 1909, appointed an executive committee of five, 
known as the “Fly Committee,” and this committee ap¬ 
pointed a sub-committee consisting of one member from 
each county, whose duty it has been to give public 
lectures on the dangers of the common house fly, espe¬ 
cially in every public school in their respective counties. 
Capt. R. B. Ainsworth, of the Royal Army Medical 
Corps (1909), gives an admirable summary of impor¬ 
tant observations in India, from which he concludes that 
flies are of the greatest importance. He refers to much 
the same general tone of the medical profession as that 
indicated in the quoted editorial in our previous sec¬ 
tion. He writes, “Notwithstanding the fact that much 
has been written of late regarding the life history and 
habits of the common house fly, and many suggestions 
made relative to its possibilities as a disease carrier, it 
is to be feared that the general tone of the medical pro¬ 
fession with regard to the question is apathetic if not 
actually antagonistic. The latter is distinctly in evi¬ 
dence in a rider to the recent reports of the Simla 
Enteric Fever Committee, added by some members 
thereof, though why they should dissent so emphat¬ 
ically in the face of so rapidly accumulating proof is 
hard to understand.” 
After his summary of the whole situation, Captain 
