Hygiene in restaurants and public houses

Hygiene in restaurants and public houses.

Clean food 159 partly possible to legislate about the latter. It would be interesting to know whether more outbreaks of food poisoning begin in homes than in public eating-places. Where home hygiene is poor, the family has often a high resistance, but where homes are clean, immunity is probably acquired late, or not at all. This means, in effect, that a rising standard of hygiene in homes makes...

Reformed Public Houses

Hygiene and Public Health

A. Whitelegge and Sir George Newman, 13th Edition, revised, etc., 1917. Cassell & Co., Ltd. This admirable little book has been before the medical profession for over 27 years, and has been frequently revised. It is now in its 13th edition, and the work has largely fallen to the hands of Sir George Newman, the Emeritus Lecturer on Public Health at " Barts." The new edition has been thoroughly r...

Hygiene and Public Health

as misleading. There is a useful chapter on climates in India, a successful attempt to explain clearly the phenomena of protection and immunity. The chapter on beverages is useful, but we think it more than a liberal daily allowance to give a man 2 oz. of absolute alcohol, equivalent to 4 glasses of port, 5 glasses of sherry, etc. Half this quantity will probably do little harm, if well diluted...

Hygiene and Public Health