_Sanitary Measures that should be taken by Municipal and Railway
authorities._
(1). All filth should be removed from the vicinity of towns and villages
and _burnt_, and no filth of any kind should be allowed to remain within
an inhabited area for any length of time.
(2). All private and public latrines and public urinals should be
cleaned and disinfected daily. All receptacles used for night-soil
either in the latrine or for transport should be daily disinfected.
(3). Latrine accommodation, according to the requirements of the
population, should be provided.
(4). Drains should be well washed and flushed with a disinfectant
solution. In towns where there is an underground sewer, it should be
well flushed and ventilated, and a disinfectant solution used for
cleaning it. A house-to-house examination should be made to ascertain
that all house-connections are properly and efficiently trapped.
Deposits in the sewer should be taken out and suitably disposed off
after disinfection.
(5). Special attention for cleansing should be given to the following:—
Cesspools, privies, cow-houses, stables, slaughterhouses, markets,
workshops, common lodging houses, serais, bustees, and crowded quarters
of a town.
(6). All public roads should in the dry season be watered with a weak
disinfectant solution.
(7). Pure drinking water should be supplied. All articles of food should
be inspected. Musty and decomposing grains should not be allowed to be
sold. The meat market, dairies and bakeries should be under strict
sanitary supervision.
(8). Over-crowding in houses should be prevented. Steps should be taken
for spreading out the population of much over-crowded and congested
parts of towns.
(9). Lime in a dry state and in solution should be abundantly used in
drains, &c.
(10). All railway carriages travelling through infected areas should be
daily washed with a reliable disinfectant solution, such as 5 per cent.
carbolic acid.
(11). Railway platforms, waiting rooms and halls, and latrines should be
frequently cleaned and disinfected.
(12). There should be a system of house-to-house inspection to ascertain
the sanitary condition of dwelling-houses, and also to find out, as far
as possible, the condition of health of the inmates.
Common lodging houses, serais and houses of a similar nature should be
most carefully examined.
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