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Dr.G.Sreenivas
Dept.of Community Medicine
Gandhi Medical College
Public Health Importance
Human excreta is a source of infection
Important cause of environment pollution
Responsibility of society to dispose it safely
Failure to dispose safely leads to severe
threat to public health
Health hazards
Improper excreta disposal causes
Soil pollution
Water pollution
Contamination of foods
Propagation of flies
Burden to community in terms of sickness,
mortality & low expectation of life
Deterrent to social & economic progress
Diseases-improper disposal
Bacterial: typhoid, dysenteries
Viral: hepatitis, diarrhoeas
Helminths: hook worm, ascariasis
Extent of problem-India
74% of population is rural and majority of
them go to fields for defecation
Situation in urban area is equally worse
The solution to the problem is only through
hygienic disposal of human excreta which is
a corner stone of all public health services
HOW THE DISEASE IS CARRIED FROM EXCRETA
FLUID/WATER
FINGERS
FLIES
FIELD/SOIL
Transmission of faecal born diseases
S WATER
A
N
I
T FINGERS
A
T
I
FAECES O FLIES PROTECTED HOST
N
B
A SOIL
R
R
I
E FOOD
R
SANITATION BARRIER
Water pollution
Soil pollution
Access to flies
Corrosion of buckets and pans
Recruitment of staff is difficult,
should be replaced by sanitary
latrine
Sanitary latrine
MERITS
No need for sweeper for daily removal.
DEMERITS
Small capacity
Auger may not be available.
If the soil is loose it becomes difficult to dig
DUGWELL LATRINE