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Salt Lake High School students posed with their fly traps, 1915. From 1913 to 1915, manual training students in Salt Lake City produced hundreds of traps to eradicate house flies. Dr. Samuel G. Paul, the city’s public health commissioner, referred to the traps as “implements of warfare” against the insects. They were part of a citywide campaign that also included a bounty for dead flies and a pamphlet sent to every home about the risk of disease flies posed. Shipler Commercial Photographers. Utah State Historical Society, photograph no. 16153.
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