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PARKS 



the people are so located as to make the community water and sewer sys- 

 tems accessible. It should be the duty of the local and state health 

 authorities to exert their great powers to encourage, and if necessary com- 

 pel park and recreation authorities to provide the most adequate and modern 

 toilet facilities possible in all areas under their jurisdiction as they are 

 developed and thrown open to the use of the people. 



Because of the carelessness of people in general the design of modern 

 sanitary equipment for the disposal of human excreta should be such as 



to reduce to the lowest possible 

 minimum the ill effects of care- 

 lessness or abuse of equipment. 

 For example, the various types 

 of urinals elevated above the 

 floor frequently found in park 

 and recreation toilet buildings 

 and in toilet rooms of other 

 structures are never as sanitary 

 as the type of urinal sunk into 

 the floor with the floor sloping 

 toward it. This latter type of 

 urinal is easy to install, is adapt- 

 able to all ages and can more 

 easily and readily be cleaned by 

 flushing and scrubbing than the 

 elevated types. Toilets with 

 spring seats and automatic flush 

 equipment are desirable in park 

 toilets because of the careless- 

 ness of many people in failing to 

 flush toilets of the ordinary type 

 after using them. 



The floors of toilet rooms should be of concrete or other equally imper- 

 vious and easily cleaned material so as to permit flushing with a hose. The 

 floor should be carried up as a part of the wall for at least a distance of 

 six inches with rounded corners, leaving no place where dirt can accumu- 

 late. All floors should be trapped so that water used in flushing and scrub- 

 bing the floors can readily run off. The use of so-called disinfecting chemicals 

 is not generally recommended for the reason that they often cover up 

 undesirable, unpleasant odors with another odor not so distasteful without 

 affecting the essential unsanitary condition of the toilet room. The only 

 real proper sanitary control is, in the first place, to have the rooms properly 



PLATE No. 315 



TWO-SEAT PRIVY BOX FOR SANITARY PRIVY 

 SHOWING VENT FLUE 



(Public Health Bulletin No. 89, Lumsden.) 



