PARK SANITATION 



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constructed and the best equipment available installed, and secondly, 

 eternal and consistent vigilance by the caretakers in daily 'cleaning, or 

 more often if necessary. Most of the unpleasant, unsanitary conditions in 

 public park toilets of the modern sanitary type is due to the failure of 

 caretakers to perform their duties regularly and painstakingly. 



In parks and other recreation areas located in rural districts, villages, 

 towns and small cities, metropolitan districts of cities, or other places 

 having no community water or sewer systems, types of toilets other than 

 modern sanitary flush toilets 

 must be used unless in a given 

 park area there is developed a 

 water and sewer system similar 

 to a community system. Under 

 such conditions there are several 

 ways of disposing of human ex- 

 creta of which the following are 

 some of the different types. 



The sanitary privy. The san- 

 itary privy provides a method 

 of temporarily storing human ex- 

 creta in such a manner that it 

 does not become a menace to 

 the health of man. Essentially 

 such a privy consists of a re- 

 movable receptacle, or privy 

 pail, for receiving the excreta, a 

 privy box and a fly-proof, ven- 

 tilated building. The privy box 

 containing the receptacle is con- 

 structed as shown in Plates 314 

 and 315. The box is about 

 twenty inches from front to 

 back and seventeen inches high. PLATE No 3l6 



The length depends on the num- A ONE-SEATED SANITARY PRIVY 



ber of Seats, a One-Seat privy (Public Health Bulletin No. 89, Lumsden.) 



being about twenty-two inches 



long. Each seat is equipped with a well-fitting, self-closing lid (Plate 315). 

 Usually an opening is made at the back of the box just large enough 

 to permit the ready removal of the receptacle and equipped with a well- 

 fitted and substantial door. Experience has shown, however, that when 

 the doors are at the back of the box the hinges are frequently broken or 



