CARRIAGE OF DISEASE 149 



which did not control the flies had anywhere from one 

 to four cases in each family. He points out that in one 

 year typhoid causes more deaths than yellow fever in 

 fifty years. 



The Georgia State Medical Association as early as 

 April, 1909, appointed an executive committee of five, 

 known as the "Fly Committee," and this committee ap- 

 pointed a sub-committee consisting of one member from 

 each county, whose duty it has been to give public 

 lectures on the dangers of the common house fly, espe- 

 cially in every public school in their respective counties. 



Capt. R. B. Ainsworth, of the Royal Army Medical 

 Corps (1909), gives an admirable summary of impor- 

 tant observations in India, from which he concludes that 

 flies are of the greatest importance. He refers to much 

 the same general tone of the medical profession as that 

 indicated in the quoted editorial in our previous sec- 

 tion. He writes, "Notwithstanding the fact that much 

 has been written of late regarding the life history and 

 habits of the common house fly, and many suggestions 

 made relative to its possibilities as a disease carrier, it 

 is to be feared that the general tone of the medical pro- 

 fession with regard to the question is apathetic if not 

 actually antagonistic. The latter is distinctly in evi- 

 dence in a rider to the recent reports of the Simla 

 Enteric Fever Committee, added by some members 

 thereof, though why they should dissent so emphat- 

 ically in the face of so rapidly accumulating proof is 

 hard to understand." 



After his summary of the whole situation, Captain 



