324 PERSONAL AND CIVIC HYGIENE 



II. A SANITARY MAP, AND SANITATION 



Note. This work should be started as field work several 

 weeks before it is taken up in the class room. 



Observations. 1. Get a map of the neighborhood, village, 

 borough, or township. If none can be obtained, sketch one as 

 best you can. Mark with a star any houses where any trans- 

 missible diseases have been, or are at present. Indicate the 

 number of cases with a figure. Also indicate the nature of the 

 disease with an initial as, *2T would mean, two typhoid cases 

 at this place. Get your information through neighborhood 

 inquiry, or from quarantine placards, otherwise through pub- 

 lic officers, such as health officials, either local or state. Which 

 sort of disease is most common ? 



2. Mark on the map the location of any cesspools, or 

 sewage emptying into streams. 



3. Locate any marshes or stagnant ponds. Also any open 

 rain barrels, or tin cans, etc., which may hold rain water. Do 

 any of them contain any wigglers or mosquito larvae ? 



4. Locate any garbage dumps. Also any garbage pails 

 that are commonly left open. Are there any places where the 

 garbage is left in the back yard ? Are children permitted to 

 play about such places ? 



5. Locate any manure heaps near stables. Also any 

 unclean stables, either for horses or cows. If there are any 

 manure heaps, find out whether any measures are taken to kill 

 maggots, or the young of flies. What, if any ? 



6. Locate any public restaurants where there is an exces- 

 sive number of flies about, and permitted on the food and 

 in the building. Are such places cleanly ? 



7. Locate any dry closets or outhouses. Also piles of 

 decaying vegetable matter. Also any places where the soil 

 is commonly polluted by the excreta of human beings being 

 permitted to remain on the surface for any length of time. 

 Note. It is said that barefoot children running about on the 

 polluted soil of some of the regions of our Southern states, as 



