Review of reviews and world's work . life historyconnected with all or any of the diseasesnamed at the beginning of this article; hut de-pend upon it. he has been wallowing in filthbefore he took his milk hath. The falling ofinfected tlies into milk on the farms or in thedairies has made possible many a local epidemicof typhoid fever. This same propensity oftin- fly for milk baths has made the childsse ond summer a thine to be dreaded bv all S* Enormous a> these figures seem they are onlya part of the story. We have not figured thecost of the sickness produced by the flies. Thepay of the de
Review of reviews and world's work . life historyconnected with all or any of the diseasesnamed at the beginning of this article; hut de-pend upon it. he has been wallowing in filthbefore he took his milk hath. The falling ofinfected tlies into milk on the farms or in thedairies has made possible many a local epidemicof typhoid fever. This same propensity oftin- fly for milk baths has made the childsse ond summer a thine to be dreaded bv all S* Enormous a> these figures seem they are onlya part of the story. We have not figured thecost of the sickness produced by the flies. Thepay of the den tor. the nurse, and the not been reckoned, nor has the k>stime through illness been considered. TheSpanish War taught u> what a powerful agentof death the By could l>e when o|>en latrineswere accessible to tlies for it has esti- mated that out of noj deaths in the Spanish-American War, 1924 : from typhoidfe\ er communicated by flies. The large numl>erof deaths caused 1>\ unsanitar* conditions in ** ++ %*. -f J^S. ^^^^ tt£ *K *a m IHI DIM VSKCARHMNC, ?• tK(WI THI l>(. \I> I l>H TO THK IJVI H VR^ THE DISEASE-CARRYING HOUSE-FLY ; military life has thus led to a more carefulstudy of similar conditions in civil life, result-ing in the discover} that accumulations of filthin open city lots, alleys, and about school sinks,as well as in exposed country outhouses, is thesource of typhoid fever, and of intestinal diseasesof children through the agency of the fly. Thechief health officer of one of our largest South-
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