The Guilty House-fly.
Young housekeepers should appoint themselves special sanitary inspectors to their own homes, cultivate a Sherlock Holmes’ talent for detecting odours from dustbins or drains, and impress upon the servants the absolute necessity for protecting and screening every sort of food from contamination by flies. The housefly is guilty of the crime of bringing many deadly diseases into homes. Have you noticed the habit flies have of settling on the skins, mouths, and nostrils of sick people? Well, in that way they become loaded up with disease germs. They afterwards settle on your sugarbasin, creep into cream and milk jugs, deposit germs on the butter, and thus communicate typhoid, diphtheria, and divers diseases to entire households. Therefore, wage eternal war with the house-fly, the great enemy to domestic hygiene.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 29 July 1908, Page 65
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131The Guilty House-fly. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 29 July 1908, Page 65
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