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Food supply. The public food supply should also be 

 carefully guarded. The places where the food is cooked, 

 the bakeshops, should be carefully inspected. The room 

 where the food is cooked and handled should be kept clean 

 and sanitary. No persons having contagious diseases should 

 be allowed to work in these shops. The food, when exposed 

 for sale, should be covered to protect it from dust and flies. 

 The purity of the food should be guaranteed by state and 

 national laws. 



Butcher establishments, where animals are killed or where 

 meat is sold, should be carefully watched. Inspectors should 

 make sure that no animal with tuberculosis is sold for meat 

 and that all meat is kept under sanitary conditions. 



Water supply. The public water supply should be guarded 

 with special care to see that no disease germs are allowed 

 to enter it. If the water comes from lakes and rivers, the 

 surrounding areas should be watched to see that they are 

 not contaminated by disease germs that might enter from 

 sick people living near. If the water is taken from a lake 

 or river into which sewage flows, care should be taken to see 

 that the inlet for the water is located a long distance from 

 the outlet of the sewer. If water is taken from artesian 

 wells, the pipes should be watched to see that no leaks allow 

 disease germs from the sewer pipe to enter. 



Keeping town clean. It is usually the duty of the board 

 of health to see that the town is kept free from certain 

 kinds of filth. Arrangements are usually made by them for 

 the collection of garbage, ashes, rubbish, and manure. 



Fly and mosquito control. Closely allied with the matter 

 of cleanliness is the matter of fly control. The board of 

 health should take measures to see that the breeding places 

 of flies, chief among them the manure piles, are so frequently 

 removed that flies have no opportunity to breed. Ordinances 

 should be enforced relative to the protection of food from 

 flies. 



