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is carried to other members of the household, or to people 

 in the neighbourhood. 



Careful experiment and observation have established 

 the fact that House Flies sow the microbes of nearly all 

 diseases to which man and his domestic animals are subject. 

 Knowing this, we have a powerful weapon against the 

 disease microbe army if we care to use it. We know 

 diseases are produced by microscopically small forms of 

 life, known variably as microbes, bacteria, and germs, and 

 we now know the ways by which they infect men and 

 animals. We know that the House Fly is the principal 

 ally of the disease microbe in its attacks. Knowing this, 

 we should be foolish indeed if we did not at once act upon 

 the knowledge and wage war, yes, a yearly war, against 

 the House Fly. We must be content to fight, and to con- 

 tinue the fighting. Every spring our armour must be 

 buckled on and not laid aside till the cold of winter sets in. 

 The battle will be keen and long, but it must be fought. 



Are you content to tarry by the wayside of life blindly 

 taking preventible chances of infection and premature 

 death ? If so are you, too, content to indifferently stand 

 by and allow innocent children, mothers, and fathers, to be 

 stricken down, and not lift a hand to save them ? Know- 

 ledge brings many obligations. Knowing that we have a 

 terrible enemy in our midst, it is our duty to ourselves, our 

 families, and the community to wage war, unceasing war, 

 till the enemy is annihilated. 



Our folk are falling daily, smitten down by microbes 

 carried to them by the House Fly. Therefore, Arise and 

 Smite slay without mercy. Let your battle cry be, 

 " Death to the Fly." 



