Health and cleanliness : a text book for teachers
1938-03 1938 1930s 69 pages : illustrations FIFTH GROUP OF LESSONS CLEANLINESS OF FOOD SYLLABUS Cleanliness of food. Purchase of milk from clean dairies and clean milkmen. Purchase bottled milk only. Scouring of milk-jugs. Protection of milk from flies. How milk sours. Protecting milk with muslin. D...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Health and Cleanliness Council
March 1938
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/0B342ABC-E7CB-455B-A2EF-95D388B1E10C http://hdl.handle.net/10796/B61AB93D-739F-43A9-B455-0A89CA5DD3E4 |
| Summary: | 1938-03
1938
1930s
69 pages : illustrations
FIFTH GROUP OF LESSONS CLEANLINESS OF FOOD SYLLABUS Cleanliness of food. Purchase of milk from clean dairies and clean milkmen. Purchase bottled milk only. Scouring of milk-jugs. Protection of milk from flies. How milk sours. Protecting milk with muslin. Dried milk easier than liquid milk to keep clean. Purchase of food from shops and markets. Food that is exposed to dust and dirt and flies should be avoided. Sweets should be protected from dust and from flies. Food should be handled as little as possible, and only by people with clean hands. Fruit should be washed or pared before eating. The use of the larder. Need for cleanliness of larder. How to keep loaves of bread clean. Need for cleanliness when handling food. NOTES ON METHOD The proper beginning, it would appear, is to encourage children to choose the sweets and fruit which they buy with care and discretion. Teachers, as a rule, look upon sweets as rather a nuisance, and their only interest in the matter is to see that the children keep them well out of sight. Something might be done, however, to encourage children to go to clean shops, to see that sweets are properly wrapped in clean bags — not in scraps of old newspaper — and to handle the sweets with clean hands. Children sometimes offer sweets to their teachers, and can on such occasions be taught to offer the bag. Something might be done, 47
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