sanitation

(noun)

The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.

Related Terms

Examples of sanitation in the following topics:

  • Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

    • Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, strong anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse.
    • The WCTU was very interested in a number of social reform issues, including labor, prostitution, public health, sanitation, and international peace.

  • The Rise of the City

    • Cities responded by paving streets, digging sewers, sanitizing water, constructing housing, and creating public transportation systems.

  • The Environmental Impact of Cities

    • Cities responded by paving streets, digging sewers, sanitizing water, constructing housing, and creating public transportation systems.
    • Location may be the New York City Sanitation Department's East 17th Street facility, or possibly the incinerator at West 47th Street on the Hudson River.

  • Industrialization and the Environment

  • The Bonus Army

    • The camps, built from materials scavenged from a nearby rubbish dump, were tightly controlled by the veterans who laid out streets, built sanitation facilities, and held daily parades.

  • The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

    • King had gone there to support sanitation workers trying to unionize.

  • 1968: The Year of Upheaval

    • King, who had been an extremely effective leader in the Civil Rights movement, was in Memphis to lead a protest of unequal wages and working conditions among Memphis' sanitation workers.

  • Hurricane Katrina

    • Thousands who were elderly, ill, or too poor to own a car followed the mayor’s directions and sought refuge at the Superdome, which lacked adequate food, water, and sanitation.

  • The Growth of Cities

    • A polluted aquifer, overcrowded housing, a lack of sewers and basic sanitation, and the existence of polluting industries near wells and residential areas contributed to an unprecedented mortality rate.