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January, IBS'] The Health Bulletin 23
aud train men to do this work. Often
one inspector will have as many as
fifty or seventy-five trained men building
privies in the area he is working.
Two experienced men should build two
pit privies in three days. The best
builders working in pairs some times
build three pit privies per pair of carpenters
per day. Many of these trained
carpenters follow from town to town
and build privies, but on account of the
tendency of the local people to assume
that the inspector has some special
interest in these workmen, they are
discouraged as much as possible against
following. It is slower work to train
Potential Value of Complaints
The advertising slogan "every knock
is a boost" cannot possibly be more
true in any application than it is with
respect to sanitary privy enforcement.
The most prevalent complaint comes
from owners of rental property, who
very often have not even seen the
privies themselves. We consider that
the man who will apply his attention
to the matter sufficiently to write a
letter of complaint is a potential convert
to sanitation, because the subject
is actually in his mind. It is only necessary
then to guide his mind correctly
Fig. 2
new builders in each section but it
is better policy to do so, and thus
trained experienced carpenters are always
locally available in the future for
V pairs, or the construction of new
privies. See Fig. 2 (quantity production.)
The inspector offers to show and
assist each property owner or anyone
he may employ to do the work but
recommends that whoever is employed
not be paid until the work has been
approved by the inspector. There is a
special form used by the inspector in
approving privies so that the builder
can get paid. Checking of completed
work before the builder is paid is a
valuable service and is greatly appreciated
by property owners.
which can usually be done, because we
can show him we are right and most
people are reasonable after all.
The standard procedure is to have
the chief inspector call on the complainant
and take him out personally
to inspect his own privy or privies aud
at the same time inspect other privies
which are built right and compare.
Usually the more vigorous the complaint
the more ardent exponent of
sanitation the man becomes.
Place,
Purpose and Educational Value
of Prosecution
Prosecution is invoked only as a last
resort, but it is the duty of every
inspector to exercise his utmost ability
to make a believer out of the defendant