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SEP - 4 1914 



CAMP SANITATION 



- . University of Califoruia 



Foreword. 



A sanitary camp means an increase in the willingness and efficiency 

 of the labor. 



Suppose a camp of 200 men with a pay roll of $400.00 per day: if 

 living 1 conditions are bad and the sleeping accommodations make a 

 reasonable night's rest impossible, if the food is fly infested, and the 

 toilets unclean and revolting, the men become disgruntled and dis- 

 satisfied and some become sick. Experience has shown that often 

 under such conditions there will be a 25 per cent loss of working 

 efficiency, or a loss per day of $100.00, or $3,000.00 per month. The 

 sum of $10.00 per day or $300.00 per month will cover easily the cost 

 of good sanitation. This camp therefore can save $2,700.00 per month 

 by installing model living conditions, and do away with the serious 

 handicap of an ever-quitting force. Few employers of unskilled labor 

 realize their loss through the "soldiering" of discontented workers. 

 Petty strikes and a labor force continually quitting, both frequent 

 products of bad camp conditions, often increase the cost of the work 

 beyond the profit. 



Practically all disease-carrying house flies breed in manure piles, 

 kitchen refuse, garbage and human excrement. 



Flies carry typhoid, dysentery, diarrhea and other intestinal diseases 

 from human excrement to the food, thus spreading disease among the 

 laborers and employers. 



Dispose of these breeding and feeding places and you dispose of flies. 



Dispose of flies and you dispose of one of the main causes of camp 

 sickness. 



Therefore, it is not only to the interest of humanity, but to your 

 own interest to have a sanitary and "livable" camp. 



I. 



Location of Camp. 



1. Every camp should be located on well drained ground. Low 

 places, swamps and wet areas should be avoided, on account of both 

 the discomfort attached to wet quarters and the possibility of affording 

 breeding places for malaria-bearing mosquitoes. 



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Layout of Camp. 



1. Tents and portable houses should be arranged in rows so that the 

 surroundings can be kept clean easily. 



