RF;P0RT CF the state entomologist 1908 7,7, 



1876 The House Fly. Am. Xat. 10:476-80 



OhservAtions on the life history and habit?. 



1883 Harrington, W. H. House Flies. Ent. Soc. Ont. Rcp't. i8Sj. 



P- 38-44 



A somewhat extended discussion with quotations from Packard and other authorities. 



1884 E. P. W. Dangers from Flies. Nature, 29:482-83 



Abstract ot a note by Dr B. Grassi in which he calls attention to flies occurring upon 

 various pathogenic materials and conveying germs to receptive membranous surfaces. 

 Ophthalmia is noted as an Egyptian complaint, very probably carried by flies. Grassi's 

 experiments show that flies may ingest and pass unharmed, eggs of a human parasite (Trl- 

 chocephalus) and probably of the tapeworm (Taenia soliu m). 



1884 Riley, C. V. Am. Nat. 18:1267-68 



\ote on Grassi's experiments showing that flies are agents in the diffusion of infectious 

 maladies, epidemics and even parasitic diseases and recording the ingestion and passage of 

 Trichocephalus eggs and also of alcoholic eggs of Taenia solium. 



1887 The Plymouth Typhoid Epidemic. Science, 10:214 



Gives the mortality figures of the outbreak in 1885 and cites an instance " in which the 

 disease seems to have been transmitted through the air." The first case, that of a strang?r, 

 occurred in a hotel, the discharges being thrown without treatment into a water-closet 

 which communicated with a room only 3 feet distant in which the landlord's daughters slept. 

 The drinking water of the place was good and the three cases following the first were in all 

 probability due to germs transmitted by flies. 



1887 Fyles, Thomas W. Insects Troublesome in the Household and 

 How to Deal with Them. Ent. Soc. Ont. 17th Rep't, p. 33-34 



A summarized biologic account. 



1890 Aaron, C. B. In Dragon Flies vs. Mosquitos, p. 37-42, 53-54 



A brief discussion of the life history and habits with observations on the house fly as a 

 carrier of disease. 



1890 Beutenmueller, William. In Dragon Flies vs. Mosquitos, p. 



123-24 



Brief observations on the habits of the house fly and the possibility of controlling the 

 insect. 



1890 Weeks, A. C. In Dragon Flies vs. Mosquitos, p. 81-84 

 Brief notice of habits of the house fly with frequent references to associated species. 



1891 Marlatt, C. L. Insect Life, 4:152-53 



Records unusual mortality among flies in Washington caused by E m p u s a .•Ameri- 

 cana Thax 



1892 Power, Henry. Conjunctivitis Set Up By Flies. Brit. Med. 

 Jour. Nov. 19, p. 1 1 14 



Records the severe inflammation of the conjunctiva accompanied by extensive corneal 

 ulceration within 24 hours after having been stung in the eye by a fly which had ar>parenlly 

 risen from a dung hill. The case was marked by general prostration and feebleness for 

 months after. Another case was recorded, diphtherial in nature, after a fly had gotten into 

 a man's eye. [The first case can hardly be attr.buted to a house fly.] 



1894 Skinner, Henry. Ent. News, 5:18 



Surgeon General Sir William Moore is quoted as reporting an instance where anthrax 

 was spread by flies from the unburied carcass of a dog. It is also noted that the greatest 

 abundance of flies in India is coincident with cholera outbreaks. It is suggested that 

 leprosy is often conveyed by flies. Ophthalmia is thus disseminated. [These notes may 

 not all apply to the house fly] 



