The Sanitary Privy

The Sanitary Primer

Convict artefacts from the Civil Hospital privy on Norfolk Island.

The archaeology a/the penal settlernent a/NO/folk Is/and;s a substantially untapped source ofil?formalion aboul cOf/vict life. as revealed by the assemblage of artefacts excavated in J987 from the Civil (convict) Hospital privy (in use c./845-/855). Artefacts such as syringes, medicine cups. cupping glasses, medicine and alcohol bottles, clay IObacco pipes, buttons, toothbrushes and hair combs;...

The Principles of Sanitary Tactics

The Description of an Old Type of Privy

expenditure. It is primarily based on the same principle? as those of the bore-hole latrine advocated chiefly by the Rockefeller workers for the rural areas in the tropics although the existence of the former antedates the introduction of the latter into India, at least by several decades. The former is remarkably free from smell and fhes do not breed in it so that it can be installed right in ...

The Sanitary Commission of Bengal

"Indian Medical Gazette" may be written as legibly as possible, and only on oxb sidk of each sheet of paper. Technical expressions ought to be so distinct that no possible mistake can be made in printing them. Keglect of these simple rules causes much trouble. Communications should be forwarded as early in the month as possible, else delay must inevitably occur in their publication. Business le...