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CAMP SANITATION AND HOUSING. 



VII. 

 Toilets. 



1. There should be a sufficient number of toilets at convenient places, 

 so as to afford one seat for every ten persons. In hop fields, fruit 

 ranches and other places where men work in the field, there should be 

 portable toilets, moved along conveniently near, affording at least one 

 seat for 40 persons. 



2. The toilets should be made fly-proof. All openings should be 

 screened with No. 16 or 18 mesh wire screen, and all cracks should be 



Toilets which violate every rule of sanitation. Actually in use in camps before 

 the Commission began its inspection. 



battened. The bottom of the shelter should be banked up with earth 

 where the frame touches the ground. 



3. Doors should have spring hinges, coils or some other arrangement 

 to close them automatically. 



4. The seat covers should be constructed so as to drop down over the 

 hole as soon as the person rises, as shown in Figure 21 (page 26). 



5. The pit should be at least 4 feet in depth and when filled with 

 excrement to within one foot of the surface, the building should be 

 moved over a new hole, and the old hole filled with earth or thoroughly 

 burned out with oil or oil-soaked straw. 



6. It is recommended that the surface of the pit be covered daily 



