vegetables, salads, melons, ete.
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blocks of buildings infect the same. Bt ra cellyprinciwhich have not been cooked or vegetables om approxeiengerons sterilized. the number of hot see would be con ples probably th io entirely, eliminated.
Food on which flies have settled. siderably greater. of jolestés, far surpassing in size, flavour *Milk or cream which has not beea and quality any vegetables seen in the Usted or sterilized. markets cane and are grown "Water with has not been boiled or Second " 1 Shanghai without using—nightso filtered through a Berkefeld filter.
Cuantes H. Govrni Whilst the cost of producing such Aerated waters and other drinks Engineer Surveyor. vegetables is not definitely known there unless of best quality. is little doubt that on a large scale they Aleoholicdrinks during the hot weather. could be produced at but little if any Ice-cream unless made of boiled Departmental Report by the materials. highter cost than is at present paid for Superintendent of Parks and them. Even if the cost were slightly Uncooked oysters, Open Spaces to the Municipal Fish from June to October. higher the first law of humanity—* the Engineer for August. law of self preservation"—would no "Fruit, tomatoes, melons, etc, van be The work effected daring the month doubt encourage the public individually or sterilized #0 that they can be safely eaten raw, and without spoiling the flavour, by wis chiefly confined to the ordinary collectively to bear the additional cost dipping for a few seconds into briskly routine of maintenance. Two wooden readily when by so doing they struck at boiling water. Strawberries are better seats were constructed and placed at the the root of one of the chief sources of sterilized by dipping into boiling sugar disease which each summer gives rise to syrup. Milk and cream can be sterilized termination of Jessfield Road. The by placing the bottles in a pan of cold large matshed in Hongkew Recreation annually. water and gradually raising to boiling Ground which was in need of repairs point. The candle of the Berkefeld filter Trees staked, fastened and pruned, was pulled down and re-erected on a should be lightly scrubbed in running water smaller scale. A commencement was; 'Traneplanted, Sisko', Faskened and theo boiled once a week regularly, vision should be th made to the bedding out of chrysan- Northern District 11 83 877 [rough because the preventable dace homams and," considerable number] Eastern, 75 387437 prevalent in Shaghet were potted. The interiors of the plant Western spaces on the back wall of the large houses ae being washed and the bare|Central 89 323 5,985 mostly caused by infected food, Every 108712 Kona aould have a serving-rom 3 the dining-room and te conservatory are being planted so as to provide " natural back ground. The bowling green in Hongkew Recreation Ground hus been played on daily and the players comment favourably on its condition, Municipal Vegetable Farm. The reason for the advocation for cousideration of the establishment of a vegetable farm ly due to the annual recurrence of choleraic and dysenteric forms of bowel troubles reputedly preventable by careful attention to the food supply. Of all foods it ly generally averred that tainted vegetables supply the chief source of infection. This could easily be remedy ied by the cultivation of vegetables in a sanitary manner, and the production of sufficient vegetables to supply the requirements of the Foreign population would be by no means a or expensive undertaking, particularly limited to the summer months. The. Public Health Notice " Vegetables and Fraits grown near the ground, being watered as a rule with uightsoil 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 und from contact with cooked or prepared food," is the best advice that can be given under existing condit But as is known to all who have witnessed the return of the native servant from the market, conveying in one receptacle vegetables, fruits, fish, butcher meat and. and other form of food, the chances are that practically all the food hay in contact with the vog with disease germs before it arrives at its destination, Hence, though vegetables on arrival at the house are isolated from the germs, the germs have been in all likelihood already transmit-' ted to them. Further, the servant who handles them may immediately afterwards touch bread or other forms of food 165 850 7,011 [fromthe kitchen" The serving-coom should contain the Berkefeld filter, ice-Nuniber of tree-borers destroyed 1,78: 9 chest, table utensils, washing sink, Trees transplanted 5 milk, drinks, bread, butter, fruit and Plants were bedded out at other cooked or prepared foods. Cook-Public Gardens 386 ing or boiling destroys infection, Victoria Nursing Home 70 Vegetables and fruit grown near the Bubbling Well Police St. 242 ground, being watered as a rule with night-soil, are specially liable to be soiled D. MacGrecor, with the germs of Typhoid fever, Cholera, Superintendent, 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.
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