Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — Medical Society Urges People To Swat the Fly. [ARTICLE]

Medical Society Urges People To Swat the Fly.

“Swot the fly’’ campaign for 1917 are well under way. The elimination of this filthy and dangerous insect is imperative. The housefly, in addition to being a demonstrated agent in the spreading of typhoid, has been convicted on conclusive evidence of causing a large number of infections, including cholera, dysentery, the infantile paralysis, diphtheria and contagious opthalmda, according to physicians who are members of the Indiana Medical Society. . ~’ , More than a bi I lion flies have been killed in the various annual campaigns, a statement that seems impressive until one considers the billions that escape and the fact that in congenial climates seven generations of flies may 'be produced in a single summer. One female fly will lay on an average a batch of 120 egga aad 4f «H these eggs from a batch laid in the middle of April shqpld hatch -and produce their kind in hike manner, there would be by autumn from a single female fly a progeny of nearly six thousand billion. As each female fly may lay four batches of eggs, the figures for their unchecked development throughout a summer stagger the imagination. Communities must depend largely upon the medical profession and boards of health for the prevention of disease and the Indiana State Medical Society is urging not only the .swatting of the fly but action to prevent its breeding by the cleaning up of all filthy and unsanitary places where it thrives. r