Explain the importance of personal and public cleanliness.

Communicable and contagious diseases easily spread if personal and public cleanliness is not maintained. Most of the diseases can be prevented by keeping ourselves and our surroundings clean. We should not urinate, defecate or spit in open because it may lead to spread of varieties of bacteria and virus. We should not allow stagnation of water, keep our roads, surroundings and drains clean so that there will be less chance of breeding of flies and mosquitoes which cause varieties of diseases like jaundice, diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid, dengue, malaria etc. If we keep ourselves clean we will have less chance of getting infection. We should cover our mouth and nose while sneezing or coughing so that there will be less chance of spread of germs. In this way both personal and public cleanliness have lot of importance.