To evoke a realization of the importance of protection against flies, it might be well to refer to the ex: perience' of one of the authors in a large American city where household waste (excepting sewage) was; disposed of at garbage dumps, some id] of these dumping places being on vacant lots or in abandoned canals ithin the built-up portions of the city. The writer was connected with the local "'Child Welfare Associa tion" and later served as chairman of the "Health and Sanitation Committee" of the Association of Commerce, and, while occupying those positions, became convinced that the garbage, dumps had become foci of disease, especially anion children. 1g] From the archives of the City Health Bureau a record was secured of the deaths of children during an entire year in each block of the cit On a general map, a black dot was placed in the individual block where the death of a child had occurred during the year. This map showed a most alarming grouping of "the black dots in the immediate vicinity of the garbage dumps with only infrequent dots in the more remote blocks, and many such blocks with] no record of the death of a child. The city records showed that a large proportion of these deaths in the vicinity of the garbage dumps were the result of intestinal infection of the type, the germs causing which fare usually carried by the ordinary house fly. These were present in [great swarms, roth at the garbage dumps and for several blocks distant} therefrom.
While garbage dumps are a source great danger in a community, the germs -which may cause disease if taken into the digestive system are not nearly so plentiful in such waste material as they are in the wastes of the human body; and, for this reason, especial care must be taken' to keep flies and other disease-carry. ing insects from such wastes and thus safeguard the food of the people.
Another important preventive measure is the control of sanitation in the preparation of food, Not only must flies he kept away front it, but dishes, utensils, and the hands of the servants who' prepare the meals must be free from any possible] germs.
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