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CAMP SANITATION AND HOUSING. 



7. Mess and cook tents or houses should have all openings screened 

 and the doors should have spring hinges, coils or some other arrange- 

 ment to close them automatically. 



Figure 10 shows a non-flyproof dining tent, as the Commission found 

 it, where thousands of flies entered and infested the food. Conditions 

 of this nature will in the end bring an epidemic of typhoid, dysentery or 

 other intestinal diseases to camps. (See page 14.) 



Figures 11 and 12 show the exterior and interior of another dining 

 tent and kitchen as remodeled by the Commission. 



A 16 by 20 crowded tent occupied by seventeen persons. This tent contained 

 double deck bunks, each occupant having- about 120 cubic feet of air. This bad con- 

 dition existed in one of the camps before it was standardized by the Commission. 



The seating capacity of this mess tent was increased from 80 to 130 ; 

 and the cost of remodeling same at the State Highway Camp, Shingle 

 Springs, was as follows : 



1266 board feet lumber at $16 per thousand $20 26 



243 square feet black wire screen at $0.013 3 16 



One tent fly 25 x 26 feet 23 75. 



Hardware 1 50 



Labor _. 25 00 



Total 1 $73 67 



Figure 13 shows a model dining tent (knock-down system), for 52 

 persons. (See page 16.) 



