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General Rules of Health.
1. Use absolute cleanliness in your person and clothing.
2. In order to keep the teeth from decaying they should be
thoroughly cleansed at least every night. This is even more important
for children than adults, as they will not grow big and strong
unless they have sound teeth. Decayed teeth should be stopped
(before they begin to ache) or extracted. The first permanent teeth
come at the back at six years of age.
3. Never spit on the floor or into your handkerchief. The law
forbids spitting on the floor or side of any public carriage, hall,
waiting-room or place of entertainment. Penalty 40s.
4. Wash your hands frequently, and especially—
(a) Before eating.
(b) Before preparing food for any one.
(c) After attending to any sick persons.
5. Keep your house perfectly clean.
6. Do not allow any rubbish to remain in the yard, but keep the
back premises as neat and clean as the front.
7. If there is any defect in the roof, walls, floors, windows or
doors of your house which you cannot repair yourself, complain to
the landlord; if he does not attend to it, complain at the Health
Office, Town Hall.
8. Light is of great importance to health. A dark room should
not be used for living or sleeping. The light entering the windows
should not be obstructed in any way by curtains or blinds ; if. however,
this is necessary for privacy, a very light muslin blind should
be used in the lower part of the window only.
9. Fresh air is equally important. The window of a room
should always be kept open when anyone is in the room, day and
night. In summer it should be wide open, and in cold weather it
can always be opened a few inches at the top, or a " Hinckes-Bird "
ventilator can be provided by any joiner at a cost of a few pence.
10. Beds should be stripped and aired, slops emptied, blinds
and curtains drawn, and windows opened wide, as soon as possible
after rising in the morning.
11. Waterclosets should be flushed each time they are used.
In addition to this, every morning, about ten o'clock, after all the
slops have been emptied, you should flush the closet with two or
three pails of water.
12. If the drain is stopped, or the house refuse is not regularly
collected, immediate complaint should be made at the Health Office.
13. Places where food is kept should be dry, well ventilated,
and kept scrupulously clean.
14. The fresh water cistern should be cleansed every six months.