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432 passed into store and before being served out. The utmost care should be exercised to keep prisoners free from vermin and the premises from flies, cockroaches, fleas, bugs,, and all insects that might possibly serve as transmitters of the hypothetical virus.

In institutions under Government control, or in conditions in which it can be successfully enforced, there should be a stringent rule against the use of over-milled rice. To legislate against the use of white rice in countries in which rice is the staple food would not be politic, and could only lead to opposition and defeat the object in view; but the authorities, by educative methods and in other ways, could do much gradually to eradicate any prejudice there may be amongst the natives against under-milled rice.