Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1911 — Boston Orders Police to “Swat” Flies [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boston Orders Police to “Swat” Flies

BOSTON. —The Boston police have added to their duties the Job of killing files. It is claimed that they have already demolished or otherwise pat oat of active business some 160.000 or *OO.OOO and that before the end of the season the busy bobbles of the Athens of America will have sent 100.000 of the biting and tickling dipterm to *y heaven. Just what the police are up against may he Inferred (tom the following H llgams: A female house fly which has Mberasted In a dwelling house, or elkewhere, writes Prof. F. L. Washburn, may prod nee In the spring, at g the lowest estimate. 120 eggs. Assuming that one-half of these hatch as female* and allowing that the breeding goes on without check for four months we bare as the descendants of s single hibernating lndlvidul enough flies to make quite a broad belt around the earth at the equator, placing close to Why is this army of files? It in-

vadee, it attacks. It is more fearless and elusive than :jny other , army known to the thing called Ufa Each unit of that army Is a threat of dlaeasa the bussing of it the initial thrumming of (he cataclysm that la to swell into the honor of the crack of doom. . Each unit cornea from places so disgusting that the very thought of it alighting on the nose or on any part of the body Mads a shiver up end down the spine that Is Ukh the rigor mortis. It is a knell of disease and death on a billion wings In every city and town tn the world, dreadful as the ■courge of Egypt