Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common DiseasesDoane, Rennie Wilbur
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Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Doane, Rennie Wilbur
Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease
GUDGER, E.W. Early Note on Flies as Transmitters of Disease.
_Science_, N.S. Vol. 31, Jan. 7, 1910, pp. 31-32.
HAMER, W.H. Nuisance from Flies. _London County Council Rept._ No.
1,138, pp. 1-10, and No. 1,207, pp. 1-6, 1908. Observations on
various flies and their relation to diseases.
HAYWARD, E.H. The Fly as a Carrier of Tuberculosis Infection. _N.Y.
Med. Jour._, 80, 1904, pp. 643-644. Tubercular bacilli pass through
the digestive tract of flies and remain virulent.
HOWARD, L.O. The Carriage of Disease by Flies. _Bull. 30_, N.S.,
pp. 39-45, _U.S. Dept. Agric, Div. of Ento._, 1901. Discussion of
flies as carriers of disease.
HOWARD, L.O. House-flies. _U.S. Dept. of Agric., Bureau of Ento._,
Cir. No. 71, revised ed., Sept. 21, 1906. Notes on the various
species visiting houses; habits; methods of control; regulations
for controlling flies in cities.
HUTCHINSON, WOODS. The Story of the Fly That Does Not Wipe Its
Feet. _Sat. Evening Post_, March 7, 1908.
JACKSON, DANIEL D. Conveyance of Disease by Flies Summarized.
_Bost. Med. & Surg. Jour._, 1908, p. 451. Disease and flies prevail
at same time; records over 1,000,000 bacteria to each fly caught on
swill-barrels.
JACKSON, DANIEL B. Pollution of New York Harbor as a Menace to
Health by the Dissemination of Intestinal Diseases Through the
Agency of the Common House-fly. Account of experiments and
deductions. Pamphlet issued July, 1908, by Merchants' Assn. of New
York.
LEIDY, JOSEPH. Flies as a Means of Communicating Contagious
Diseases. _Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil._, 23, 1871, p. 297. Believes
that flies may carry disease; refers to flies in connection with
gangrene and wounds.
LORD, F.T. Flies and Tuberculosis. _Bost. Med. & Surg. Jour._,
1904, pp. 651-654. Fly-specks may contain virulent tubercular
bacilli for at least fifteen days.
MAYS, THOS. J. The Fly and Tuberculosis. _N.Y. Med. Jour. & Phila.
Med. Jour._, 82, 1905, pp. 437-438. Believes that J.O. Cobb's data
as given in _Amer. Med. Jour._ is not at all conclusive.
NASH, J.C.T. A Note on the Bacterial Contamination of Milk as
Illustrating the Connection Between Flies and Epidemic Diarrhea.
_Lancet_, II, 1908, pp. 1668-69. Experiments show that milk left
exposed to flies soon contains many more germs than that protected
from them.
NASH, J.C.T. The Ætiology of Summer Diarrhea. _Lancet_, 164, 1903,
p. 330. Believes house-fly carries this disease because the two
appear and disappear together.
ROBERTSON, A. Flies as Carriers of Contagion in Yaws. _Jour. Trop.
Med. & Hyg._, 11, 1908, No. 14, p. 213. As a result of examinations
the author concludes that the house-fly is capable of carrying the
virus of yaws.
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