The house fly as a disease carrier : and how controlled / by W. E. Britton, State Entymologist.

  • Britton, Wilton Everett, 1868-1939.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: The house fly as a disease carrier : and how controlled / by W. E. Britton, State Entymologist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    SUMMARY The house fly, on account of its habit of breeding in filth and visiting filth, and then crawling over food, is a carrier of the germs of human diseases, especially typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery. Many epidemics have been traced to the agency of flies. The female fly lays about 120 eggs, the maggot and the pupa each live about five days, making about ten days from the egg to the adult stage. The winter is probably passed as an adult. From seven to ten generations occur in Connecti- cut each year. Flies breed in stable manure, privies, brewery waste, gar- bage, or in almost any decaying animal or vegetable matter that is sufficiently moist. Insanitary practices on farms and in villages and cities are chiefly responsible for the numbers of flies, and these endan- ger many lives through the spread of disease. Temporary camps are danger points. Flies should never be tolerated in a sick room, and should be kept away from food and from human excrement. The fly nuisance may be abated and controlled by abolishing the breeding places, treating the manure heaps with hellebore or borax, trapping the maggots, using fly traps and fly poisons, r> -reening houses, stores and restaurants. THIS PAMPHLET Published by tlie State Board of Health for the benefit of the people of Connecticut, will be sent free on request, — Health officers will be supplied with as many copies as they can use. Address, — State Board of Health — Hartford, Conn.