Local People Are Acting on the Suggestion of City Physician Dr. Foley.
Many Swatters Are Used.
Scores of People Are Getting After the Places Where the Flies Are Breeding.
    This is “Fly Swatting” week and from all accounts the pests are suffering heavy losses at the hands of Waukegan people.
    Before leaving today on his trip to the coast City Physician J. C. Foley urged Waukegan people to keep up the fight against pestiferous insects. That “a stitch in time saves nine,” is a well recognized axiom. Dr. Foley says the same applies to flies. To kill one at this season of the year, he says, means to prevent the multiplication of countless millions before the end of the season.
    “I think the majority of people understand how to exterminate the fly,” he said. “About the best rule that can be laid down is to start swatting them at once and not let up so long as one can be found. It is impossible to estimate the amount of damage done by flies. Many cases of illness are directly attributable to flies as it is a known fact that they carry many communicable diseases, such as typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and others. This is not hard to understand when one realizes that there is no filth, that is too filthy for the fly. He goes directly from a manure pile or garbage can into the kitchen or sick room. Many cases of sickness among children are caused by flies.”
    There are many Waukegan people who are going even further than merely swatting the flies. They are destroying the breeding places by the action of chemicals. Then too, the removal of all garbage from the reach of flies is effective.
    The fight should be “to the death” for the flies offer no quarter when they make their attacks upon humanity.
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