PARK SANITATION 



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is retained to pay for the labor necessary to put the grounds into good 

 condition. Many park departments have general ordinances relating to all 

 park areas but especially to picnic places respecting littering the grounds. 



Children's Playground Areas. 



The sanitary care of children's playground areas consists chiefly of 

 careful daily policing of the grounds by caretakers, and taking such meas- 

 ures as will effectively keep down the dust. The flushing of hard-surfaced 

 areas daily, the application of calcium chloride to other types of surfacing, 

 or frequent sprinkling of the areas with water sufficiently to keep them 

 moist are effective measures in keeping down dust. Every playground 

 should be equipped with one or more receptacles for refuse and the chil- 

 dren carefully instructed in the use of them. Children afflicted with skin 

 diseases should be excluded from the playground or if not excluded should 

 be prevented from using any play supplies or apparatus used by the other 

 children. Instruction of the children as to the danger of expectorating on 

 the playground is desirable. A basic sanitary measure for all playground 

 areas is adequate drainage and proper surfacing. 



Sanitary Care of Park Areas in General. 



One of the most difficult of all tasks of the park executive is to keep 

 the areas under his control free of the immense amount of litter brought in 

 by those who use the areas. Nearly every park department has some kind 

 of an ordinance relating to this matter of which the following are a few 

 examples: 



"It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or 

 leave, or permit to be deposited or left in any public 

 park, any trash, paper, box, can, bottle, food fragments, 

 or other unsightly substance, except in receptacles pro- 

 vided especially for that purpose, or to dump or throw 

 any trash, stones, bottles, food fragments, or refuse of 

 any kind in any lake, streams, swimming pools or 

 fountains in any such public parks." (Ordinances of 

 the City of Spartanburg, August 20, 1924, Section 4, 

 page 104.) 



"No person shall throw any dead animal or offen- 

 sive matter or substance of any kind into the River 

 Schuylkill or other waters within the boundaries of 

 any park. No person shall scatter, drop or leave in 

 any portion of the parks except in the receptacles pro- 

 vided for the purpose, any piece of paper, rags, garbage, 

 dead flower or other rubbish." (Sections 23 and 24 of 

 Rules and Regulations for the Government of the 

 Parks under the Control of the Fairmount Park Com- 

 mission, Philadelphia, Pa.) 



"No bottles, broken glass, ashes, waste paper, or 

 other rubbish shall be left in any of said parks, except 

 .at such place or places as shall be especially designated 



by the commission." (Section 13 of Rules and Regula- 

 tions for the Use of Parks, Burlington, Vermont.) 



"No person shall deposit, dump, throw or place any 

 earth, rubbish, dust, manure, paper, garbage, slops, or 

 other refuse matter or any sand, stone, lumber or build- 

 ing material, or any substance of any kind in or upon 

 any part of the waters or grounds of any park or park 

 approach except ashes and garbage in suitable boxes or 

 barrels on such days as are designated by the street 

 department for collection, and subject to its regulations, 

 without a permit from the Commissioner of Parks and 

 Public Buildings, and all such permits, if given for 

 building purposes, shall be granted only to the owners 

 or occupants of the property to be built upon or to 

 their authorized agents." (Parks Ordinances, City of 

 Buffalo, New York, Chapter LXVIII, Section 14.) 



"No person shall place or suffer to remain in or on 

 any park or parkway, any goods, merchandise or other 

 article in the nature of an obstruction to the use and 

 enjoyment of said park or parkway; nor shall any per- 

 son place any straw, dirt, chips, paper, shavings, shells, 

 ashes, swill or garbage, or other rubbish, even though 

 not offensive to health, in or upon the same. Nor shall 



