ables and Fruit grown near the ground, liable to infection with Typhoid Fever Cholera and Diarrhea, should be separated from the rest of the food before cooking and Lo washed and prepared outside the kitchen so that no table or utensil used inside the kitchen be infected. Cooking destroys the infective material, Uncooked vegetables and fruit should be avoided unless it is known that they are grown clean.
Milk should be thoroughly boiled immediately it is received Water for drinking or kitchen purposes should be either, boiled or filtered through a Berkefeld or Pasteur filter, If one of the filters be fised, no other tap supplying unfiltered water' should be allowed in the hen. li other filters are worse than use-les, Water should not be stored in any vessel, but drawn straight from the tap.
Kitchen supervision should be personal and daily, and should be directed especially to the roundness of food before cooking, the ice chest, and general cleanliness. Fo.d utensils should be scalded thoroughly and scrupulously jean boiled dish-cloths used.
Mosquitoes and Flies carry disease, hence fiy.covers should be used over cooked food. AS mosquito bites may be infective, the mosquito wet should not be neglected' A small quantity of patwflia oil thrown into any' place where stagnant water lies will prevent the development of mosquitoes.
Tefuse should not be allowed to accom ate, and night-soil buckets should be kept securely closed, including those in the Chinese servants' latrines.
Yards and Drains should be freely flushed with water, A good and cheap disinfectant is crude Jeyes' fluid, which may be added in the proportion of a' teacupful to a gallon of water, This may be sprinkled treely over any surface requiring disinfection, subsequent to the dushing with water, but ids useless to pour disiviectant directly down drains. Draius can only bs disinfected by keeping them ina good state of repair and flushing, freely with plain water.
Vaecination should be repeated at least every seven years.
The Meeting then adjourns.
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