WAR AGAINST FLIES

Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22244, 13 January 1944, Page 4

WAR AGAINST FLIES

DANGER TO HEALTH The Department of Health urges' people to regard, flies as disease carriers, and to make every endeavour to destroy them. “The fly is a constant menace to public health,” says a departmental circular. “Its main menace in its brief life is to flit around and scatter germs all over the place. Any one of these germs may be a danger to health. “Just imagine a highly-enlarged picture of a fly in what we might term full battle-dress, ready to deliver his deaj v loads wheerver he may alight for a moment. We would see a big insect with its legs thickly clustered with fou| germs, gathered from all sorts of unthinkable breeding places. Not only do the germs collect on the legs of the fly, they are breeding inside it all the time and are expelled. Typhoid! fever, dysentery, summer sickness, 1 tuberculosis, and even skin infections; are carried by the fly. Eliminate \ its breeding grounds. Keek all re- | fuse, stable manure and decaying | rubbish under cover. Inside the house see that all food is properly! protected. Use fly traps, fly papers, and sprays inside to keep the pests j away. An ounce of formalin added j to a ping of milk or water makes a useful trap. Place the liquid in! shallow receptacles where they will do the most good. When it comes to fighting the fly, stop at nothing.”