CAMPAIGN AGAINST FLIES 



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Copy for the posters and two of the newspaper articles was 

 then submitted to the physicians on the board of health, who gave 

 their heartiest approbation, though one said the newspaper articles 

 would be most effective ; another, the bills distributed to the 

 houses. Four electroplates of a much enlarged cut of a fly were 

 ordered. These measured about 2*4 x 4 inches, and were used 

 on the posters, the handbills, and at the head of all the articles 

 in the papers to attract attention. 



Two to four articles a week then appeared in the two daily 

 papers, until about ten had been printed. Only one or two would 

 have been printed weekly had the work been begun as early as it 

 should have been. The articles were published in the three local 

 weekly papers, and were sent to the five other weekly papers 

 in the county, some of which published them. 



The following is a sample of these articles : 



NO FLY HAS YET BEEN FOUND 



that will wipe his feet before he 

 crawls on your food. Because 

 this is so, because we know the 

 history of the fly — from the swill 

 pail to your table — only the great- 

 est care may save you from dis- 

 ease and possibly death. 



The extermination of the fly is 

 in the interest of humanity; for - 

 while we call the common fly the 

 typhoid fly, it may, with truth, be 

 called the tuberculosis fly. If in 

 its wanderings it has access to 

 those ill with tuberculosis, or to . 

 the sputem of a consumptive, it 

 will carry the tuberculosis germ 

 to the food we eat or the water - 

 we drink. 



NO FLY IS CLEAN 



Besides carrying typhoid and 

 tuberculosis, it is the cause of a 

 whole host of summer diseases, 

 and many, many children die from 

 eating food over which one or ■ 

 many flies have crawled. Accord- 

 ing to statistics, out of ioo cases 

 of children's deaths, 2>7 are caused 

 by intestinal diseases largely the 

 result of flies. 

 Don't give the baby milk when even one fly has had access to it, or- 

 has crawled over the cup from which baby drinks. Don't let baby eat . 

 anything that a fly has touched. Flies are more deadly than snakes. 

 No Filth. No Fly. 



COMMON HOUSE-FLY OR TYPHOID FLY 



