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CAMP SANITATION AND HOUSING. 



Figure 17 shows a barrel and trench type incinerator suitable for a 

 camp of 115 persons. This incinerator can be constructed in the fol- 

 lowing manner : Dig two trenches 10 feet long and 10 or 12 inches wide, 

 bisecting each other. At the point of bisection, the trenches should be 

 from 15 to 18 inches deep, gradually shallowing from this point to 

 their origin. Over the place of bisection, place four boards to support 

 an ordinary sugar or flour barrel. Around the barrel pile sods of 

 earth and pack tightly up to the top of the barrel. If sods are not 

 obtainable, use clay. Make a fire in the trench under the barrel and 

 when the barrel is burned out, a hard cone of earth or clay is left. 



A barrel and trench type incinerator suitable for a camp of one hundred and 



fifteen persons. 



According to the direction of the wind, one trench opening near the 

 cone is left open and the other three plugged with soil. Thus a flue 

 is effected through the one opening and the top of the cone. The ashes 

 should be raked out at the end of each day's use and a fresh fire started 

 in the morning. Fuel and garbage are fed to the fire through the top 

 of the cone. 



The estimated cost of this incinerator is as follows: 



1 yard excavation _ $1 00 



1 common sugar or flour barrel 



Placing clay or sod - 4 00 



Incidentals _. 50 



Total . $6 00 



