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c. Cleanliness

We cannot be healthy in absence of personal and environmental cleanliness. Due
to insufficient cleanliness, people suffer from various communicable diseases such
as diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, etc. We have to be very much aware of our own
personal and environmental cleanliness. We have to make our surroundings and

sources of water clean.

d. Immunization

Our body has capacity to fight against causative agents of diseases. This is called
immunity. Diseases attack in case of insufficiency of nutrients, ignorance towards
diseases, lack of environmental cleanliness and lack of timely vaccination as required.
Therefore, the vaccination should be as mentioned in the table given below.

Name of Name of Time Quantity/ Vaccination Dose
vaccine disease dose interval
B.C.G Tuberculosis Within one year Once -
from birth
D.P.T Diphtheria Within six weeks Three times With the interval
Pertussis to one year from of four weeks
Titanus birth from the first vac-
cination.

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