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.
Sandilands, J.E. Epidemic Diarrhea and the Bacterial Control of Food. Jour. Hyg., 6, 1906, pp. 77–92. Believes that house-flies convey these diseases from the excrement of infected infants.
Sibthorpe, E.H. Cholera and Flies. Brit. Med. Jour., Sept., 1896, p. 700. Flies considered scavengers, think they thus help abate the disease.
Smith, T. The House-fly as an Agent in Dissemination of Infectious Diseases. Amer. Jour. Pub. Hyg., Aug., 1908, pp. 312–317. Points out that flies on account of their habits, are dangerous sources of contamination.
Smith, Theobald. The House-fly at the Bar. Merchants' Assn., New York, 1909, pp. 1–48. Letters from various authorities giving their opinion; quotations from various authors. Bibliography.