noun
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The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.
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The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.
Examples of sanitation in a Sentence
Very little was spent on sanitation, roads, other public works and education.
Sanitation decreases the death-rate, religion keeps up the birth-rate.
The disease is spread through poor sanitation.
The sewerage system and conditions of house sanitation were found extremely inadequate when the American army occupied the city in 1899.
The water supply and drainage systems were introduced by the United States government, which controls the sanitation of the city, but has no other jurisdiction over it.
A child dies every 15 seconds from diseases associated with unsafe drinking water and inadequate sanitation.
Pools require lesser amounts of chlorine for sanitation.
Nearly half of the world's people lack access to adequate sanitation.
Letters raising the poor sanitation in Haworth were written here.
The number of people without proper sanitation is to be halved by 2015.
At the end of the 19th century, improved sanitation meant that most middle class houses had an indoor toilet.
WaterAid is a charity dedicated to helping people escape the stranglehold of poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation.
As the city has always been notoriously unhealthful, the United States, on undertaking the construction of the Panama Canal, became interested in preventing its becoming a centre of infection for the Canal Zone, and by the treaty of November 1903 secured complete jurisdiction in the city and harbour over all matters relating to sanitation and quarantine, and engaged to construct a system of waterworks and sewers in the municipality, which had been practically completed in 1907.
He improved the sanitation of Ely, published in 1840 Observations on Plans for Cathedral Reform, and carried out extensive works of restoration in his own cathedral.
Sanitation and public hygiene received a potent impulse from the cholera epidemic of 1884, many of the unhealthiest quarters in Naples and other cities being demolished and rebuilt, with funds chiefly furnished by the state.
In 1866-1867, however, a serious outbreak of cholera again threatened it with ruin; but improved sanitation, the provision of a supply of pure water and the demolition of a mass of houses unfit for habitation soon effected a radical cure.
Other areas covered include human resources management, nutrition and sanitation.
The conditions which gave rise to the epidemic included poor sanitation and a lack of safe water sources in the region.
These include participatory Geographical Information Systems (GIS ), participatory generation of numbers and community-led total sanitation.
The money is aimed at minimizing the impact of the flood in the education, water sanitation sectors.
Sanitation is effected by the Puri Lodging-House Act, which provides for the appointment of a special health officer, and for the licensing of lodging-houses both in the town and along the pilgrims' route.
The centre of Florence, which was becoming a danger from a hygienic point of view, was pulled down in 1880-1890, but, unfortunately, sufficient care was not taken to avoid destroying certain buildings of historic and artistic value which might have been spared without impairing the work of sanitation, while the new structures erected in their place, especially those in the Piaza Vittorio Emanuele, are almost uniformly ugly and quite out of keeping with Florentine architecture.
With a wet, undrained subsoil and a large population of Indians and half-breeds living in crowded quarters, the death-rate has been notoriously high, though the completion of the Valley drainage works in 1900, supplemented by underground sewers in the better parts of the city, and by better sanitation, have recently improved matters.
The Public Health Department has exerted itself to improve the sanitation of native villages and combat the mischievous trickery of Maori wizards and "doctors."
In addition to the provision and maintenance of roads and the construction of public buildings, the department of public works also provides all works of a public nature, such as water-supply, sanitation, embankments, lighthouses, ferries and bridges, and which require technical skill.
Among its public buildings are the government palace, the legislative and municipal hall, the "Quatro de Setembro" theatre, Misericordia hospital, public market, sanitation and public works, building, courts, police headquarters, barracks, &c. The town is characteristically Portuguese in appearance, its buildings being one or two stories in height, plastered and frequently coloured outside, with large rooms, thick walls, and tile roofs to ensure coolness.
The sanitation workers always empty ourgarbage cans on Tuesday afternoons.
The men should be instructed in the laws of sanitation, and in the proper care of injured men.
Sanitation.-As regards sanitation London is under special regulations.
Increased urbanization and the poor sanitation led to many diseases.
Sue was a stickler for hygiene, so total sanitation was necessary after having a sick child in the house.
After pleading guilty earlier in the year for reckless assault, the supermodel will spend five days mopping the floors of New York's Sanitation Department.
The single most important factor that affects the wine making process is cleanliness, or sanitation.
The general improvement in sanitation has led to a corresponding improvement in the condition of the working classes, though much still remains to be done, especially in the south.
The principal streets are wide and tree lined, the sanitation is good.
The climate of the city was originally very unhealthy, but it has improved greatly of recent years with modern sanitation and drainage.
The numerous and large marshes, found now mostly in Galicia and Dalmatia, have been greatly reduced in the other provinces through the canalization of the rivers, and other works of sanitation.
The sparseness of the population throughout the Dutch territory is due to a variety of causes - to the physical character of the country, which for the most part restricts the area of population to the near neighbourhood of the rivers; to the low standard of civilization to which the majority of the natives have attained and the consequent disregard of sanitation and hygiene; to wars, piracy and head-hunting, the last of which has not even yet been effectually checked among some of the tribes of the interior; and to the aggression and oppressions in earlier times of Malayan, Arab and Bugis settlers.
At that time England was sadly behind-hand in matters of nursing and sanitation, and Miss Nightingale, who desired to obtain the best possible teaching for herself, went through a course of training in the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth.
A law passed on the 1st of July 1902 requires that all private schools must be authorized by the state, and arranges for their periodical inspection, for the enforcement of proper sanitation and discipline, and for the appointment of a suitable staff of teachers.
These were in decaying and over-crowded tenements without running water or adequate sanitation, buildings actually collapsing because of neglect from rack-renting landlords.
These include participatory Geographical Information Systems (GIS), participatory generation of numbers and community-led total sanitation.
Nearly half of the world 's people lack access to adequate sanitation.
Many people in Burkina Faso have to live without any safe drinking water or hygienic sanitation facilities.
However, the sanitation infrastructure is still not fully developed.
North America North America has the highest water supply and sanitation coverage in the world.
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For water and sanitation provision, the emphasis is on more accurate and detailed national sample surveys.
Food sanitation seminars, especially for food handlers, are conducted at the national, provincial and municipal levels.
There was a sanitation issue when the water lines burst, so residents are being watned that the water isunsafe to drink.