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

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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 <strong>North</strong> <strong>Carolina</strong> countryhomes today is the s<strong>at</strong>isfactory disposal<strong>of</strong> human excrement. Ever sinceWarren H. Booker, C.E.soon become history, typhoid wouldbecome rare, and we should still havehundreds <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>at</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> more erpens/vetvpes o/ priv/es, reguir.-nqmucti <strong>at</strong>tention 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 <strong>of</strong> t^rcundPRIVY FOR RURAL USEBuilt withcut a back door and over a pit. <strong>The</strong> screened ventil<strong>at</strong>or under the se<strong>at</strong> had best be omittedunless the odor becomes very objectionable.hookworms were discovered there hasbeen much talk about sanitary privies,but from present indic<strong>at</strong>ions thelast word has not yet been said. Itis a fact th<strong>at</strong> with the general use <strong>of</strong>almost any form <strong>of</strong> the so-called sanitaryprivies, hookworm disease wouldOur present methods <strong>of</strong> caring forhuman excrement range all the wayfrom elegant porcelain fixtures in tiledb<strong>at</strong>hrooms to bent-over saplings or noprivies <strong>at</strong> all, even <strong>at</strong> school houses.We can not all afford porcelain equipments,and even the richest among us

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