"Fruit, tomatoes, melons, eto. con be sterilized ro that they can be safely eaten raw, and without spoiling the flavour, by dipping for ™ few scoondy into boiling water. Strawberrios are better sterilized inbing into ling sneer syrup. Milk ant cream cay be sterilinel by placing the bottle in a pan of cold water and gradually rai to boilfuy point. The candle of the Berkefets filter should be lightly scrubbed in ranning: water fand thes boiled once a week regularly.
Kitchen supervision should be thorough because the preventable diseases The serving-room should contain the Berkefeld filter, ice cheat, table utensils, washing sink, boiled {iuilk, drinks, bread, butter, fruit and other cooked or prepared fonds. Conk= or boiling destroys infection, Vegetables and trust grown near the ground, being watered ax & rule with lable to be soiled with the germs of Typhoid fever, Cholera, Diysentery 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 x0 they should be excluded from the serving-room, kitchen and servants' latrine by providing spring doors and unopenable windows screened by perforated xina, and from the food on the table by fly-covers, Faceinution should be done on arrival Shanghai and afterwards every three years, Keep rata out of your hmne, Starve the rata by providing no food for them in and around your house, Keep cats. Make your house rat-proof.
Morguitoer carry malaria, Where mosquitoes cannot' be exterminated by abolishing stagnant water or by the use of kerosine oil, or by reporting their presence to the Health Officer, the mosquito net should be carefully used, A weekly inspection should be made and no standing water permitted, Refuse should not be allowed to accumulate, and a properly covered, ly-lifted galvanised iron receptacle should be provided. Nightsoil buckets should be kept securely closed, including those in the servants' latrines. Proper receptacles for these purposes may be obtained at the Health Office. Yards and Drains should be kept in a good state of repair and freely flushed with water,
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