. Preventive medicine and hygiene. ng to the eyes than in tents made of whitecanvas. Tents should be ditched. It is important to air and sun the tentsdaily by raising the walls; it is also useful to move them a few feet toa new site so that the sunshine may dry and purify the old site; it isdesirable while on the march to avoid recently used sites, since oldlatrines may be opened up. CAMP SITES 1279 In all armies the tent space afforded each man is very limited, andin our service the official tentage is not sufficient to meet the demandsof hygiene. Hence it is fortunate that ahout i^^ of the a
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. ng to the eyes than in tents made of whitecanvas. Tents should be ditched. It is important to air and sun the tentsdaily by raising the walls; it is also useful to move them a few feet toa new site so that the sunshine may dry and purify the old site; it isdesirable while on the march to avoid recently used sites, since oldlatrines may be opened up. CAMP SITES 1279 In all armies the tent space afforded each man is very limited, andin our service the official tentage is not sufficient to meet the demandsof hygiene. Hence it is fortunate that ahout i^^ of the authorized oc-cupants of a tent are, in practice, constantly absent. In France, thetent space is calculated at the rate of 11 square feet for each foot soldierand 28 square feet for each cavalryman. In our army, the allowance hasvaried with the tent employed, as well as with the conditions of climateand service. The United States infantryman, in the common wall tent,is entitled to 17 square feet upon which to dispose his person and. Fig. 197.—Construction of Pit Latrine. (Munsons Military Hygiene,Wm. Wood & Co.) equipment. Ground and air space being equal, the use of small tentsis preferable to the employment of larger canvas; since, by the former,the danger of crowd-poisoning is much diminished by scattering the men,in smaller groups, more equally over the company area. Canvas tentsare fairly permeable to air, except when wet, when ventilation becomesextremely faulty unless inlets and outlets are opened. Care of Texts.—Tents should be ditched at once on pitching, elsethe floor may become flooded and bedding wet without a chance of dry-ing for several days. The ground covered by the tent should be aireddaily and the walls raised to let in the sun. In a permanent camp,tents are usually moved a short distance once a week, to a new day the bed sacks and blankets should be aired on the guy ropesand not on the ground. To insure ventilation, the tent door should notbe c
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