House-Flies or Typhoid-Flies 73 



Almost all cities and many of the smaller towns 

 have ordinances which if enforced would afford 

 adequate protection from flies, but they are sel- 

 dom if ever rigidly enforced and it yet remains 

 for some enterprising town to be able to advertise 

 itself as a "speckless town" as well as a " spotless 

 town." 



AN EXPERT'S OPINION 



In a recent important bulletin issued by the 

 Bureau of Entomology, Dr. L. O. Howard dis- 

 cusses the economic importance of several of the 

 insects that carry disease. I wish to quote two or 

 three paragraphs from the pages in which he dis- 

 cusses the house-fly or typhoid fly to show the 

 opinion of this excellent authority in regard to this 

 pest. 



i 'Even if the typhoid or house fly were a creature 

 difficult to destroy, the general failure on the part of 

 communities to make any efforts whatever to reduce 

 its numbers could properly be termed criminal neg- 

 lect; but since, as will be shown, it is comparatively 

 an easy matter to do away with the plague of flies, this 

 neglect becomes an evidence of ignorance or of a care- 

 lessness in regard to disease-producing filth which to 

 the informed mind constitutes a serious blot on civi- 

 lized methods of life." 



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