“Almost a Flyless Town” from the August 6, 1914, issue of the High Point
Review. The battle against flies was a
battle against the diseases carried by flies, including typhoid, cholera, and
dysentery in North Carolina in 1914.
Greensboro—Now that E.P. Wharton is just finishing a
successful campaign against the fly, Dr. J.T.J. Battle, another voluntary
assistant health officer without pay, will commence the annual fight on the
mosquito. Dr. Battle has issued a statement in which he calls upon people of
the city to assist him by cleaning up back lots and all places where mosquitoes
might breed.
People of the city believe that when Dr. W.S. Rankin of the
state board of health comes here to investigate Greensboro as a “flyless town”
that he will find it as nearly flyless as could possibly be expected. A great
deal of hard work has been done in the matter of preventing the breeding flies
and killing those that have been bred.
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