APPENDIX IV 

 Directions for Building a Sanitary Privy* 



IN order to put the construction of a sanitary privy 

 for the home within the carpentering abiHties of 

 boys, a practical carpenter has been requested to con- 

 struct models to conform to the general ideas expressed 

 in this article, and to furnish estimates of the amount 

 of lumber, hardware, and wire screening required. 

 Drawings of these models have been made during the 

 process of construction (Figs. 36, 37) and in completed 

 condition (Figs. 38, 39). The carpenter was requested 

 to hold constantly in mind two points, namely, (i) 

 economy and (2) simplicity of construction. It is be- 

 lieved that any fourteen-year-old schoolboy of average 

 intelligence and mechanical ingenuity can, by follow- 

 ing these plans, build a sanitary privy for his home at 

 an expense for building materials, exclusive of recep- 

 tacle, of five to ten dollars, according to locality. It is 

 further believed that the plans submitted cover the es- 

 sential points to be considered. They can be elaborated 

 to suit the individual taste of persons who prefer a 

 more elegant and more expensive structure. For in- 

 stance, the roof can have a double instead of a single 

 slant, and can be shingled; the sides, front, and back 

 can be clapboarded or they can be shingled. Instead 



♦Taken from Public Health Bull. No. 37, U. S. Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service. By C. W. Stiles, Ph.D., Washing- 

 ton, 1910. 



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