The Archive · 1911

PUBLIC MEASURES

Sanitary Inspection of houses will be carried out free of charge on application to the Health Officer. Persons about to rent houses are advised to ask the Health Officer for a sanitary inspection and a certifieste of good sanitation before closing with the landlord.

(Conditions dangerous to health should be reported to the Health Officer.

Lnolatim of cases of dangerous it factions disease ix provided at the Teolation Hospital, Range Road.

Disinfection of premises alter in-factious disease will be carried out free Vegetables and fruit grown near the ground, being watered aa a rule with night-soil, are specially liable to be soiled with the germs of Typhoid fever, Cholera, Dysentery and other bowel diseases, and should, before cooking, be strictly kept out of the serving-room and from contact with cooked or prepared food.

Flies carry disease 80 they should be excluded from the serving-room, kitchen and servants' latrine by providing spring doors and unopenable windows screened by perforated zine, and from the food on the table by fly-covers, Vaccination should be done on arrival in Shanghai and afterwards every three years.

Keep rats out of your howe, Starve the rats by providing no food for them in and around your house. Keep cate.

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