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tact with it. For instance, you cannot get typhoid fever unless you. 

 swallow the germ of typhoid, and you do not swallow these germs unless 

 they get on the food you eat or in the liquids you drink, or on the- 

 glasses or cups from which you drink. 



Not only does he scatter the seeds of disease from his body over 

 your food, bu before your fruit and vegetables are placed before you they 

 have been subjected to his filthy habits, either in the kitchen or in the 

 stores where he flies from the horse dirt in the middle of the street to 

 the tubercular sputum on the sidewalk, and then back to the food 

 stuffs displayed for sale. 



Many diseases which are attributed to milk and water originate 

 through flies. A polluted brook, river or lake furnishes germs from 

 sewers and flies in millions settle on the refuse that washes along the 

 water's edge. 



Intestinal disease are more frequent whenever and wherever flies 

 are most abundant, and they, and not the summer heat are the active 

 agents in its spread. 



There is special danger when flies drop into such fluid as milk. This 

 forms an ideal culture material for the bacillus. A few germs washed 

 from the body of one fly may develop into millions within a few hours,, 

 and the person who drinks such milk will receive large doses of bacilli, 

 which may later cause serious sickness. 



Therefore, keep the flies away from the milk. 



Dont's. 



Don't allow flies in your house. 



Don't permit them near your food, especially milk. 



Don't buy food stuff where flies are tolerated. 



Don't have feeding places where flies can load themselves with 

 ejection from typhoid or dysenteric patients. 



Don't allow your fruits and confections to be exposed to the swarms 

 of flies. 



Don't let flies crawl over the baby's mouth and swarm upon the 

 nipple ot its nursing bottle. 



Summary. 



Clean up your premises inside and out and then, as much as you 

 can, see that others do the same. 



Strike at the root of the evil. The house-fly breeds in horse manure, 

 kitchen offal, and the like. Dispose of these materials in such a way 

 that the house-fly cannot propagate. 



Screen all windows and doors and insist that your grocer, butcher, 

 baker and every one from whom you buy food stuffs does the same. 



After you have cleaned up your own premises inspect the neighbor- 

 hood for fly-breeding places. Call the attention of the owner to them and 

 if he does not remove them, complain to the Board of Health. 



Flies breed in horse manure, decaying vegetables, dead animals and 

 all kinds of filth. 



