This initiative was designed to protect the public from the risk of unhygienic acupuncture.
It is contended that there is a lack of proper washing-up facilities in canteens or that conditions are unhygienic in some other way.
Shopkeepers pursued campaigns against these competitors by presenting shopkeeping as a 'modern' form of retailing in contrast to the 'old-fashioned', 'semi-barbaric' and 'unhygienic' practices of socalled 'mobile' commerce.
It is extremely rare for food-borne infections and intoxications to originate in processed foods nowadays; they usually arise from unhygienic practices in home, canteen or restaurant kitchens.
Full breast-feeding protects them from the contaminating effects of poor and unhygienic water.
Domestic kitchen hygiene practices and knowledge are, however, notoriously difficult to measure and it is possible that our subjects were not prepared to disclose unhygienic behaviour.
However, the sanitary authorities argued that this practice was unhygienic and in 1925 the municipal government banned the resale of bread.
The suspicion of unhygienic swimming-pool water was confirmed by the total coliform count, although faecal contamination was not specifically demonstrated.
