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houses without a water supply wash-houses have been put up for common use.

mentioned above, must be connected. open into Panama Bay, and on the other into the Chagres On the one side they liver, and at Colon into the sea.

Every house except those of too small and poor a character, is compelled to have an approved closet properly installer.

Door

Lids on trough.

Floor

Section of a Compartment.

115. Rubbish and Refuse.-Each house has to have a special receptacle for its refuse which is collected nightly, taken to the destructors, and burnt. The receptacles are similar to those used in Panama (see Panama Town). At some of the labourers' barracks the tins are put on a wooden stand, and instead of a metal lid they have a wooden one of a type similar to those mentioned under Latrines.

There are destructors at all the chief stations of the following type:-

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For labourers' barracks and for the small and trough water closets with automatic flushing arrangements

poor

houses have been erected. They are not divided up into compart- inents. There are covers placed over the trough, one of which must be raised before the person can use it. A wooden bar behind the lid is so fixed that the lid cannot be raised to quite a vertical position and therefore automatically falls into its place when the person goes away. These covers are not supplied with hinges, which easily become bent and broken, and are expensive, but are jointed instead by two-inch rings fixed by a staple at each side.

These give an easy play and allow of greater adaptability of the wood to the surface edges of trough. They are cheap and can be easily repaired.

Door- Grating

The fire is started by coal at A, and, when properly going, refuse is put in through B, and it goes on to burn itself. Draught enters through the door and grating and the chimney is long in order to increase it.

The old tins are collected from the remains and taken away and buried. In the dry season they are simply col- lected, and before the rains commence the large collection is removed and buried.

116. Sewage. There is a sewage system at most of the stations with which every house, with the exception of those

Where there are no sewers, and other arrangements have to be made, a hole is dug 8 feet deep, over which is placed a small wooden hut fitted with seat as a latrine, the cover being fixed as mentioned above.

These places are daily visited by the sanitary man and thoroughly sprayed with crude oil.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O.885

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