THE HOUSE FLY
A mm HORROR OF LIFE METHMB OF CWTMI (Health Department Bulletin, )f Flies are not only, hatched in filth, hut they prefer to live in and eat it. They get into our houses by accident or when their food is scarce. They may carry germs on their feet and bodies and deposit them on our food. Fly specks have been found to contain live germs of several diseases like typhoid fever, dysentery, etc. It is considered that in summer they may spread infection of epidemic diarrhoea, which is such a serious disease in children.
Each female fly lays about 120 eggs at a time, and prefers manure for her nest, although garbage, wet paper, and decaying grass are satisfactory. Maggots (larvae) hatch out of the eggs in about 24 hours. The maggots are white, somewhat resembling grains of rice, and are generally found just under the surface of the manure. They are very active, and quickly burrow out of sight when disturbed. Before develop-
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Evening Star, Issue 22806, 15 November 1937, Page 13
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167THE HOUSE FLY Evening Star, Issue 22806, 15 November 1937, Page 13
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