(n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a group of inpatients interviewed, immunization coverage was 22%, 46% of the mothers had been enrolled in school at some time, and only 17% of the families had a latrine at home.
(2) The need for cleanliness of latrines and removal of stagnant water was emphasized.
(3) A questionnaire study was conducted in the Mushandike small scale irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe to investigate the following: 1) to establish whether field latrines are used or not; 2) to find out why people visit natural water bodies for bathing and laundry instead of using water from boreholes for these purposes; 3) to assess people's knowledge on the transmission and control of schistosomiasis.
(4) We already knew that water provision alone couldn’t break the cycle of faecal-oral disease transmission because open defecation, poor hygiene, and poorly built latrines are the main sources of faecal contamination in the environment and water, and the real reasons why diarrhoeal diseases persist despite advances in water provision.
(5) So that the villagers can use their latrines hygienically.
(6) They are mainly represented by latrines, where Anjouan ethnic group is predominent; by cesspools in localities inhabited by Sakalava (a Malagasian ethnic group) and by other latrines and cesspools in mahoraises (inhabitants of Mayotte) and cosmopolitan localities.
(7) Even among those working in the field, we constantly hide behind clean-sounding words like sanitation, latrine, Wash [water sanitation and hygiene], open defecation.
(8) Only half of the households had a simple pit latrine.
(9) Infants from a family which increased water use and had a latrine grew 2.076 cm more than those infants in a family which increased water use and did not have a latrine (p=.0007).
(10) A pilot health education and sanitation project was implemented with the objectives of giving the secondary school students the knowledge and skills necessary for building domestic pit latrines in their villages.
(11) The physical plant must be protected from overcrowding in classrooms, lack of clean water and latrines, and free from the transmission of infectious and communicable diseases.
(12) No latrines were present in 61% of households and information on use, likes and dislikes was collected.
(13) The development of acquired resistance is a further factor influencing the search for new insecticides.The successful suppression of C. p. fatigans by larvicides will greatly depend on the use of suitable formulations, e.g., solid ones in pit latrines and septic tanks and dense liquid formulations in pukka and kutcha drains.
(14) In India, manual scavengers, who clean dry latrines, face severe social discrimination as they belong to the lowest stratum of India’s caste-based society – the Dalits, formerly known as “untouchables”.
(15) The survey was preceded by a sensitization of the people to the problem of intestinal parasites and by two preliminary surveys about the number of existing latrines and about people's believes and attitudes in relation to helmintiasis.
(16) This is taken to indicate that faecal pollution of the household environment is due more to promiscuous defecation than to poor construction or maintenance of the latrines.
(17) There were no significant relationships between number of households per latrine at each community and the prevalence and intensity of infection by hookworms and prevalence of roundworms.
(18) The kit is lent to a village for three or four weeks and each family is given the opportunity to use the kit to dig a pit latrine.
(19) Seeing pit latrine in Ghoretar at the school and health post had not been enough to motivate people to build their own domestic pit latrine.
(20) After allowing for confounding variables, the odds of stunting were 18 per cent lower among children in households with latrines (95 per cent confidence interval, 36 per cent lower to 3 per cent higher).
Privy
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
(a.) Secret; clandestine.
(a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
(n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
(n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) He or she is privy to all facets of care that are being administered to the patient.
(2) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(3) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
(4) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
(5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(6) The privy council’s antiquated oath, which is supposed to remain secret, also requires members to promise “not (to) know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against Her Majesty’s person, honour, crown, or dignity royal”.
(7) They were challenged by Democratic senator Ron Wyden who, as a member of the committee, has for years been privy to classified briefings that he cannot discuss in public.
(8) Under the agreement, the royal charter must be granted by the Privy Council which meets on 8 May and then sealed by the Queen.
(9) Asked about the invitation, Cameron’s official spokesman would only say that the prime minister had been clear in public that all privy counsellors were entitled to security briefings if they asked for them.
(10) "So why are the government rushing it through to the privy council, which they control through the cabinet?
(11) "Creating some sort of privy power seems quite an interesting alternative to Leveson's recommendations for statue, which we oppose," said Cooper.
(12) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
(13) Not being privy to the processing and presentation of SPZ Ag, we postulated that a different order of processing of the authentic, i.e., SPZ-associated CS protein vs soluble rCS protein might be responsible for the generation of different T cell specificities.
(14) Today, the privy council is headed by Nick Clegg and is made up of all cabinet ministers and a number of junior ministers.
(15) I believe in having all the information, as much of it as I possibly can, rather than making a decision or statement about whether I totally agree or disagree when I wasn't privy to the situation."
(16) He was also considering a new bill which would ensure the charter could not be changed by the Privy Council and could only be changed by a "super majority" – perhaps two thirds – vote in the Lords and the Commons.
(17) There is the scope for members of the national security council, privy councillors, to ask questions and the like to better understand the work that the agencies do.
(18) But Ashworth said the public deserved answers, "given that Mr Rock had a senior role at the heart of government and was privy to the most sensitive information".
(19) Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Whittingdale said: "There is a real possibility that the Queen or privy council will refuse to recommend any royal charter when there is disagreement between the parties or disagreement between the government and industry.
(20) During the time of the Norman kings the privy council was the main body which governed Britain, fulfilling the kind of role that cabinet performs today.