ID#: 8628
Caption:
This historic diagram, which had been digitally enhanced, depicted the correct method of moving a sanitary type of privy atop a new pit, in a situation that was typical on a Minnesota farm. This was one of a series of instructional drawings, used by the Minnesota Board of Health to train the state's public health workers. The purpose of this, and other like images, and the training, was focused on protecting potable water supplies from bacterial contamination. The descriptive information accompanying this drawing, referred to a governmental publication with instructions describing the correct placement, and construction of a detached home privy. The specific citation was, “Minnesota State Board of Health, The Sanitary Privy, May, 1916, p. 15”.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Minnesota Department of Health, R.N. Barr Library; Librarians Melissa Rethlefsen and Marie Jones
Creation Date: 1916
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Links: Minnesota Health Department
Minnesota Health Department; R.N. Barr Library
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