PARK SANITATION 



873 



PROTECTION OF REFRESHMENTS AND FOOD 

 SERVED IN PARK REFRESHMENT STANDS, RESTAURANTS AND CAMPS 



Refreshments not served in unbroken packages or containers, and food 

 served in restaurants or refreshment stands may become a principal means 

 of transmission of disease, and every effort should be made to handle such 

 refreshments and food in a manner that will, as nearly as possible, obviate 

 contamination. Filth provides the breeding place for, and is the natural 

 habitat of, the common house fly. It is an established fact that the bodies 

 and feet of flies which have been in contact with human excreta frequently 

 are coated with material containing disease-producing germs. When these 



PLATE No. 353 

 WIRE BASKETS FOR IMMERSING DISHES IN BOILING WATER 



insects walk or feed upon the food of man the germs are transferred to the 

 food and may cause disease. All refreshments served in refreshment stands 

 with which flies may come into direct contact should either be kept in cov- 

 ered containers or covered with a fly-proof covering. All windows and doors 

 of dining rooms and kitchens should be tightly screened. Despite the use 

 of screens a few flies will gain entrance, and these can be eradicated by the 

 use of traps, fly swatters and fly paper. 



Dishes and eating utensils are easily contaminated and the germs of 

 respiratory disease can be transmitted by apparently clean but unsterilized 

 dishes. In so far as it is possible the use of paper cups, saucers, plates, 

 spoons, etc., should be made obligatory at refreshment stands. In restau- 

 rants and in camps all tableware when used in common should be sterilized 



