PARK SANITATION 



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Sewage Disposal. 



Ordinary park sewage consists of human excreta (feces and urine), bath 

 water about camps and swimming centers and liquid kitchen wastes about 

 camps, refreshment stands and restaurants. Where water under pressure 

 is available a water carriage system, consisting of sewers through which 

 the sewage is carried by water, can be installed and all the sewage carried 

 away through the sewers and disposed of in a suitable manner. 



Disposal of Feces and Urine. 



The only proper method of disposal of sewage of this type, wherever 

 park and recreation areas are so located as to make use of a community 



water system and a community 



sewer system, is the installation of 

 modern sanitary flush toilets. The 

 installation of this equipment 

 should be placed well toward the 

 front of the development of any 

 given area that is designed to be 

 used actively and intensively. 

 Notwithstanding the importance 

 of such equipment from the 

 standpoint of both comfort and 

 sanitation there are many chil- 

 dren's playgrounds, playfield 

 areas and large parks in this 

 country entirely without toilet 

 facilities of any kind and many 

 other park areas, the location of 

 which would make possible the 

 installation of the most modern 

 sanitary equipment, are equipped 

 with ordinary privies and these 

 often of not the best and most 

 approved type. Indeed there are 

 a few comparatively large and 

 fairly highly developed park and 

 recreation systems that were 

 found to be, in 1925, without any 

 modern sanitary toilet equipment. 

 This is an omission in development and equipment for which there is no 

 possible excuse, especially where park and recreation areas used largely by 



PLATE No. 314 

 PRIVY BOX FOR A ONE-SEATED SANITARY PRIVY 



(Public Health Bulletin No. 89, Lumsden.) 



