Maintenance of personal hygiene and public hygiene is very important for preventation and control of many infectious diseases.

– Measures for personal hygiene include keeping the body clean.

– Consumption of clean drinking water, food, vegetable, fruits, etc.

Public hygiene includes proper disposal of waste and excreta.

– Periodic cleaning and disinfection of water reservoir, pools, cesspools and tanks.

Observing standard practices of hygiene in public catering.

The above measures are particularly essential where the infectious agents are transmitted through food and water such as typhoid, amoebiasis and ascariasis.