Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — Flies Cause of Disease. [ARTICLE]

Flies Cause of Disease.

To verify the theory that files and not hot weather are chiefly responsible for the prevalence of intestinal diseases, Dr. Daniel D. Jackson, of the Merchants* association committee on water pollution, has b en trapping flies all summer at a station near Prospect Park, Brooklyn, comparing the record of his captures with that of last year and with the health department mortality figures. The doctor says he found the relation between the number of deaths reported substantially the same as last year. The largest weekly number of deaths from such disorders reported last year coincided exactly with the largest catch of files, being 567 for the week ended, August 2. This summer the highest weekly death record was 448, made for the week ended July 18.