. What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship. l be for afly swatter, some fly paper, or a fly trap. Thechildren of a neighborhood might have a fly killingcontest. It will be a very worth while kind of war. You ought to fight mosquitoes as well as carry disease to cattle in addition to humanbeings, and we need to care for our cows andsheep particularly well now. Stagnant water isthe breeding place of the mosquito. The eggsare laid on the surface of the water and the youngmust live in it for a while. The waste water thatyou thoughtlessly throw out may breed these lit-tle d
. What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship. l be for afly swatter, some fly paper, or a fly trap. Thechildren of a neighborhood might have a fly killingcontest. It will be a very worth while kind of war. You ought to fight mosquitoes as well as carry disease to cattle in addition to humanbeings, and we need to care for our cows andsheep particularly well now. Stagnant water isthe breeding place of the mosquito. The eggsare laid on the surface of the water and the youngmust live in it for a while. The waste water thatyou thoughtlessly throw out may breed these lit-tle danger carriers. Weeds and bushes alongthe edges of marshy land are alive with themand should be cut out. Overhanging grass shouldbe cut from the edges of all ditches, streams,and pools in your neighborhood. There is notvery much that children can do in ridding a com-munity of mosquitoes, but these slight measureswill really count for a good deal if every boyand girl does his or her share. The main pointis not to take a walk, or play near the wet ground. 54 WHAT TO DO FOR UNCLE SAM where there are swarms of mosquitoes. Theirbites may make you very ill indeed. Perhaps you have a wonderful museum of natu-ral history near your school that you can visitsoon and look for the exhibits there that tell youabout public health. This will help you to organ-ize the work of your Junior health board. Lookfor the relief map that shows the drainage sys-tem of your town. You may be able to copythis at home in clay, or sand, which will be anew kind of rainy day occupation. Look, too,for the giant size models of the mosquito andfly in the museum. These will help you and theothers to understand how dangerous they ask your teacher and the librarian in thechildrens room to suggest a reading list aboutkeeping well. Every school and every Board of Health hasrules about those children who have such con-tagious diseases as measles, whooping cough, orscarlet fever. It would be a good plan to findo
Size: 1257px × 1987px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherchicagoaflanaganco
