The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

THE HEALTH BULLETIN. 263THE PRACTICAL RURAL PRIVYWhy So-calied Sanitary Privies Are a Failure in the Country and a PartialRemedy ProposedPerhaps the biggest single sanitaryproblem in North Carolina countryhomes today is the satisfactory disposalof human excrement. Ever sinceWarren H. Booker, C.E.soon become history, typhoid wouldbecome rare, and we should still havehundreds of last summer's babies withus.wnt about 8 inches^square in each endfor onINIXP£N5IV£ RU2AL PSIVYNoT^ dy bui/dinq the privy vvifhouta bacf\ door^ and placing if oyer apit at o safe di3rance frv/n,andin a direction not /ihe/y topo/tuteffie t^e/i ttic resuttj are pnoct/co//yas good OS in itie caye of more erpens/vetvpes o/ priv/es, reguir.-nqmucti attention Wtien the pt" f(/7soney^ one /j dtyo neariiy, ttje otdone covered, and ftie pri^y moy^ct.All venti tote screened & pit maaf Hy-tight.(4 Pnvy to re^f upon e'^a,,/j7 timber^ Top Timbers to be fhihETwm ,imiii=iiii=/imm=//mT>>^cfw/^ surface of t^rcundPRIVY FOR RURAL USEBuilt withcut a back door and over a pit. The screened ventilator under the seat had best be omittedunless the odor becomes very objectionable.hookworms were discovered there hasbeen much talk about sanitary privies,but from present indications thelast word has not yet been said. Itis a fact that with the general use ofalmost any form of the so-called sanitaryprivies, hookworm disease wouldOur present methods of caring forhuman excrement range all the wayfrom elegant porcelain fixtures in tiledbathrooms to bent-over saplings or noprivies at all, even at school houses.We can not all afford porcelain equipments,and even the richest among us