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Shelves and tables in the larder, serving rooms and kitchens should 
be made of some non-absorptive material, such as marble or slate. 
Most of the shelves and tables upon which the food was placed 
during the processes of cooking and serving which I saw in the islands 
were made of soft wood. No matter how much this wood be scrubbed, 
there must always be a certain amount of organic material in a more 
or less advanced stage of decomposition in the cracks. In the serving 
iooms, kitchens, Sic., and wherever food is exposed for any length of 
time to contagion by flies, the food should be covered up as soon as 
it is put down. The ordinary wire gauze dish covers are cheap, and 
admirably suited to this purpose. 
Cooking utensils, plates, dishes, forks, spoons, &c., should be 
sterilized shortly before use. 1 his would not involve any very 
considerable extra labour, and convenient apparatus would not be 
very costly. No pressure of steam would be necessary, only the 
utensils should be brought to the temperature of steam. Cleaning 
bve steam, such as is done on ships, would be very 
opper cooking utensils have the disadvantage that they require 
unmg at intervals. "1 here is no means of getting this done in a 
ass manner in the islands. 7 he tinning is often irregular, and 
•small ^ actlca b* e to get such a surface really clean and free from 
would cctlons organic material. Something other than copper 
would, therefore, be an advantage. 
With nUSt j C made ^ resb every day, and the stock-pot abolished, 
guarded?T * ?*»'**• even if protection from flies is 
the material C C firSt and second cooking, it would be well if 
some minutes^ Cre 3 br ° Ugrht to boilin g point and kept so for 
The d reln?tT!! i0nS . mUSt be ke P‘ 
even the whole 1 ° Ut bttle dlfbcu,t y in keeping the kitchen, and 
gauze frames tn tv, ^ COni P ara,ave ly free from flies by means of wire 
consist of a frame & r -‘ ! ndo . ws anc * double doors : the outside door to 
would allow plent f • Wlfe ^ aU7e stretched upon it. Such a plan 
the majority of the flie^ ^ C ° me into tbe rooms, and would exclude 
and even by some people inE^T* '** eXteDSively ” 
° SUggeSti ° n ' S intended that *e kitchens of the hotels are no, 
