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1905 Mays, Thomas J. The Fly and Tuberculosis. N. Y. Med. Jour. 
& Phila. Med. Jour. 82:437-38 
Unreservedly condemns the article of J. O. Cobb on the dissemination of tuberculosis by 
the house fly, claiming that his data is far from conclusive. 
1905 Ward, Henry B. The Relations of Animals to Disease. 
Science, 45:194-95 
The spread of typhoid germs by flies is accepted and the reported conveyance by this 
insect, of cholera, anthrax, septicemia, pyemia, erysipelas, tuberculosis and bubonic plague 
is noted, some being regarded as well proved and others as open to question. Mention is 
made of Grassi’s experiments in which the eggs of both tapeworms and round worms, 
Taenia solium, Oxyuris and Trichuris were sucked up by flies and recovered unaltered 
from their dejecta. 
19000 Howard, L. O. House Flies U_ S: Dep't Agric. Bur-2 Eat 
Cita a® 
&"A summarized discussion of the house fly and other species associated therewith, with 
particular reference to remedial measures. 
1906 Sandilands, J. E. Epidemic Diarrhoea and the Bacterial Con- 
tent of Food. Jour. Hygiene, 6:77-92 
kc Important conclusions: 
4 H)The great majority of cases of diarrhoea are due to the consumption of food which has 
been infected in the district in which the cases have occurred. 
5 ,The infected matter thus coaveyed to food is generally the excrement of some person 
suffering from diarrhoea. 
6 The life history of house flies and the facility with which they can convey the fecal 
excrement of infected infants to the food of the healthy, suggests that the seasonal incidence 
of diarrhoea coincides with; and results from the seasonal prevalence of flies. 
1907 —————_ Method of Transmission of Contagious Wiseases. 
N:. ¥. State Dep't Health: Mio: Bul) August, p: 11-13 
An abstract of a circular issued by the Public Health Department of France, flies being 
credited with disseminating typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera, etc. 
too7. Buchanan, R:. A, Glasg, M. B:(& Glass, FoF. POS: ihe Gar 
riage of Infection by Flies. Lancet, 173:216-18 
An illustrated account with the following conclusions: The experiments conclusively 
show that flies alighting on any substances containing pathogenic organisms are capable of 
carrying away these organisms in large numbers on their feet and of depositing them in a 
gradually diminishing number on surface after surface with which they come in contact. 
They further serve to demonstrate the necessity for the exercise of stringent measures for 
preventing access of flies to all sources of infection and to protect food of all kinds against 
flies alighting on it. ; 
1907. Dickinson, G. K. The House Fly and its Connection with Dis- 
ease Dissemination. Med. Record, 71:134-39 
An extended summarized statement with bibliography. 
1907. Hewitt, C. Gordon. On the Bionomics of Certain Calyptrate 
Muscidae and their Economic Significance, with Special Reference to 
Flies Inhabiting Houses. Jour. Econ. Biol. 2:79-88 
The house fly is briefly treated on pages 83-86. 
1907. M’Vail, John C. The Prevention of Infectious Diseases, p. 61, 
66-67 
The part flies play in the spread of typhoid or enteric fever is assumed and preventive 
measures described. 
1907. Preston, C. H. Insect Carriers of Infection’ Pubs by, gon- 
temporary Club, Davenport, la. p. 20-21 
The fly is charged with carrying germs of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, dysentery, etc. 
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