State Department of
Health Will Enforce Sanitary Privy Law
In a session lasting two days the North Carolina State Board
of Health tackled the biggest problem created by legislation enacted by the
last General Assembly and worked out plans and detailed specifications for the
installation and maintenance of sanitary closets in all urban and semi-urban
communities in the State.
This measure providing for the proper disposal of sewage is
considered the biggest undertaking yet attempted by the State Health
authorities. Communicable disease are spread through three sources: secretions
of the mouth and nose; the mosquito; human excretion. In attacking this last
named source of disease, which is responsible for the spread of typhoid fever
and the various diarrheal diseases, North Carolina is setting a pace that is
attracting attention from all sections of the country.
The act of the legislature provides for the installation and
maintenance of an approved method of sewage disposal in all homes and places of
business located within 300 yards of another, this being considered the fly
range and being recognized as the chief agents of typhoid fever and the allied
diseases. The members of the board adopted the necessary rules and regulations
to carry into effect the provision of the law.
Under the regulations a number of types of disposable
systems where water sewerage is not available are provided. The pit privy of
approved design is permitted, or any one of a number of systems which are
manufactured for the market. The full plans and specifications will appear in
the current issue of the Health Bulletin,
which will be mailed upon request to the state health officer at Raleigh.
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