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A wide range of pests find their way into hotel buildings some are
carried by people or their pets others fly in through open windows and
doors, some get through the smallest hole or crack-none is welcome.
The sight of a pest will give most people a bad impression, suggesting
poor standards of cleaning and maintenance and many pests are
harmful.
Different
Cockroaches, flies, rats and mice act as carriers for harmful bacteria.
Wood worm, carpet beetles, mice and rats can damage furniture,
fittings and the building fabric.
Bed bugs, ants attack human beings.
Silver fish are offensive to many people but generally harmless.
Areas of infection
Rats, mice, cockroaches, ants and flies:
The common areas where you find these pests are:
Kitchens, boiler houses, store room and other public areas.
Bed bugs usually found in mattress and corner edges of the beds.
Carpet beetles usually found in the carpet
Wood worm
these are the common furniture beetles and
usually found in the wooden furniture, doors, cupboards etc.
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Ecology
The earths atmosphere is commonly called air and consists of layers
and mixtures of gases, water vapor and soiled and liquid particles.
Troposphere: Is the air near the earths surface and this is an area of
well defined gases of different groups as follows.
1. Major
Nitrogen- N-78%
Oxygen- O- 21%
Argon- Ar 1%
2. Minor
Carbon dioxide- CO
Carbon monoxide- CO
Nitrous oxide- NO
Ozone- O
Stratosphere: All the middle layers of earth surface and here mixing of
atomic gases is takes place.
Ionosphere: Is a past of the atmosphere where free atoms of oxygen,
helium and hydrogen exist in a free state.
Ozone: Ozone is the layer which act as a barrier that restrict the
amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching the earths land, animals,
plants and human beings from the ultraviolet destruction.
Ecology: Ecology is a branch of biology and is a study that concerned
with the relationship of plants and animals to their environment and
to each other.
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The ecology is hopefully will bring about a major concern for what we
are doing ourselves by abusing our environment or nature.
The pollution what we are generating today must be recognized and
aborted.
There are two types of pollution:
1) Air pollution
2) Water pollution
Air pollution
It may occur both naturally and unnaturally.
The natural air pollution includes, dust, volcanic ash and smoke from
the fire. So these forms of air pollution have existed for millions of
years and they destroy the whole earth.
Unnatural air pollution includes toxic gases from the industries ,
vehicles, smokes etc. these gases release carbon monoxide
hydrocarbons containing sulfurs, nitrous oxide to the air and causing
smog and components which are picked up in water vapor and return
to the land in the form of acid rain.
As these gases drift up into the ionosphere and they react with the
ozone in such a way that the ozone is destroyed, unexplained holes in
the layer. An excessive release of carbon dioxide to the air causes an
undue blanketing of heat that cannot radiate from the earths surface
and this is known as the green house effect.
Water pollution
Water pollution is occurs when toxic chemicals are released in the
water and garbage or any waste trash which is thrown in the water. So
these garbage and industrial waste will not readily decompose can
cause toxic pollution of water supplies. Such activity can bring about
acid soils and alkaline detergents can prevent the decomposition of
wastes.
Housekeepers role in environmental control
A housekeepers play an important role in the environmental control
because the housekeepers are responsible for the cleanliness
maintenance and aesthetic upkeep of the organization. A sound
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