File:Public health bulletin (1881) (14763922221).jpg

Identifier: publichealthbull98unit (find matches)
Title: Public health bulletin
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: United States. Public Health Service
Subjects: Public health
Publisher: Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ASE. I am stronger than all the nations of the world. I an1 the co-worker of medicine and surgery. I save thousands of lives each year. I restore children to their parents. I banish plague and pestilence. I convert the fever-ridden jungles into health resorts. I prevent sickness, disease, suffering. I add years to the lives of thousands. I .nil on guard at all times, my vigilance never ceases. I bring cleanliness, good cheer, and wholesome living. I make mankind happier, I bring prosperity. Towns spring upand grow under my protection. I am necessary for the progress of the world. Trains and shipsmove under my protection. I watch over the children in the schools, the soldiers in the camps;.nd trenches, the sailors on the sea, and the people at home. / am sanitation. 33 A CONCRETE VAULT SANITARY PRIVY. MATERIALS NEEDED FOR CONSTRUCTION. For the vault.—FAght sacks of cement; one-half cubic yard sand; 1 cubic yardgravel: S one-half-inch anchor bolts, 8 inches long : 50 feet barbed wire.
Text Appearing After Image:
Pig. 6.—Water-tight concrete vault, fly-proof, well ventilated, economical. Lumber for seat, lids, back door, and flue.—Fifty feet b. in. 1-inch hoards;one 56-inch hoard, 12 inches wide; two, 2 by 4. 20 inches long; two. 2 by 4, 31inches long : one, 2 by 4, 48 inches long; one. 2 by 4. 56 inches long; two, 2 by 4, 12inches long. Hinges.—Two hinges for back door; four hinges for seat covers. 34 THE DISPOSAL OF HUMAN EXCKETA IN RURAL DISTRICTS. Thi problem.—The disposal of human excreta in rural districts,where a modern sewerage system is a financial impossibility, pre-sents a very vital problem. In those districts where the insanitarypit and surface privies arc in use. typhoid fever, dysentery, summer t>.vj .?:.M ; trr: ■>. a . ^ ■ l<g 4\ ■■■<!■

Note About Images