Breeding Place
Sickness and death are traced directly to the fly. The story is disgusting, but it is true. It lies within your power to guard your family and yourself from this known carrier of disease. Will you not protect yourself and help in fighting this menace to health?
First, destroy the breeding places of flies. The fly cannot develop from the egg, which must have undisturbed filth to grow in, in less than eight days; therefore if all filth is cleaned up or destroyed at least once a week, the eggs will not have time to develop and there will be no flies.
Screen windows and doors. Wire screens are the best, but cotton mosquito netting can be used. Keep flies away from the sick, especially those ill with typhoid fever or consumption. Kill every fly that enters the sick-room. Kill the flies as fast as they appear in the spring. The early flies will multiply into millions in a season.
When you see flies gathering on anything in your house or yard remove it. The most flies are always found wherever there is most filth and dirt. A bad odor will attract flies, and a clean odor, such as the fragrance of flowers, will drive them away. Keep everything clean, and starve at least some of them to death.
Don’ts
Don’t tolerate flies.
Don’t allow them in your house.
Don’t allow them on your premises.
Don’t allow garbage, rubbish, or manure to collect on your lot or near it.
Don’t allow dirt in your house. Look in the corners, behind the doors and furniture, under stairs and beds. In brief, keep the house clean.
Don’t allow flies near food, especially milk.
Don’t buy food of any kind where flies are allowed.
Don’t buy milk where flies are on the cans or bottles.
Don’t eat where flies are found.
Don’t forget the screens.
Don’t forget to write to the Bureau of Health if there are any breeding places for flies in your neighborhood.
Don’t Forget—No Dirt—No Flies.
“If you don’t kill me, I may kill you,” said the fly.
QUESTIONS
Why are flies among our worst enemies?
How does fighting flies mean safety first?
Breeding Places