218 THE HOUSE FLY—DISEASE CARRIER 
Organisation 
In a number of towns and cities in the United States, 
the initiative in the fly crusade has been taken by health 
officers, but in the majority of communities the health 
officials have to be stirred up. In some cases, as in the 
State of Florida, the whole State crusade has been 
begun by the State officials and they have stirred up the 
town officials. In a few communities—but these are 
very few—private practitioners have been the exciting 
cause of anti-fly work. In one State only, so far as 
the writer knows, has the State medical association 
established a fly committee which has taken it upon 
itself to carry information concerning the typhoid fly 
into every portion of the State. 
Elsewhere, and here are the majority of instances in 
which anti-fly work has been begun, the beginnings 
have been made either by a single private individual 
or by some local organization, as a civic league, a wom¬ 
en’s club, or a town improvement society. Women’s 
clubs have done very effective' work in this direction, 
and it may be parenthetically stated that a great latent 
power exists in these organizations, a power which is 
only just beginning to manifest itself. The energy 
shown for years by these organizations, while never 
misdirected, has not until very recently been directed 
towards the work which is the most productive for.the 
good of all, namely, general sanitary measures with a 
focusing upon one point after another. The Women’s 
Municipal League of Boston, as an example, has re- 
