Essay about THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING YOUR BARRACKS ROOM CLEAN

Nurses faced great danger in hospitals because they were a breeding ground for disease. They were extremely over crowded, especially after a large battle, and because of these conditions, illnesses were spread very easily. Typhoid, malaria, and dysentery were the biggest diseases. Typhoid was the worst. One of the poorer facilities was named the “Hurly Burly House.” The patients here were enlisted men. Better quarters were reserved for sick and wounded officers. Most of the hospitals had bad ventilation, no provisions for bathing, and no dead house. Some of them had decaying wood and old carpets that were not removed. Kitchens and washrooms were described as “cold, damp, dirty, and full of vile odors from wounds.” The nurses quarters were not much better. Nurses would often work from 6am to 1am. These miserable accommodations combined with overworked and under qualified staff made hospital conditions adverse to patient welfare and therefore unsuitable for either dispensing or receiving treatment. The Sanitary Commission finally investigated and recommended

During the Holocaust, the living conditions for the Jewish population were horrifying and unthought of. The lack of sanitary facilities meant they had to remove dirt and pests from clothing by waiting in a line that took up most of the day. The barracks that the prisoners slept in was in terrible conditions and the rooms were damp with leaky roofs (“Auschwitz…”). The health and how the jewish lived was no concern of the Nazi soldiers.

Once the bed has been made, it was time for washing. Each person would run and try to reach the sanitary facility before the other. There were only a few facilities for hundreds and thousands of prisoners, and they only had a couple of minutes for washing up.

The housing units were open barracks with rows of metal beds and had a small walkway between the rows. The inmates just roamed freely within the area. Other housing units were two-level pod style barracks with two-man cells. Even these barracks allowed the inmates the freedom to move about as they pleased. The one actual lockdown area, Isolation, housed 30 inmates, each locked inside his own cell for about 23 hours a day. This area housed the inmates who had violated rules and regulations.

The weather was different to what the soldiers were used to back under the hot Australian sun. Half way through the year the weather became hot. Plagues and diseases carried by fleas and flies, were spread around. Soldiers/Troops that arrived in perfect health conditions, were very soon seen developing and suffering from from health problems; dysentery, diarrhoea, gastroenteritis and infestations of lice. Water was supplied from Egypt, but it was never enough, therefore it was near impossible to keep clean, and stay hygienic. Germs, plagues and diseases were spread due to the lack of cleanliness. Toilets were large, deep holes in the ground. By October, troops experienced the harsh,bitter winter cold. This poor lack of hygiene, led to around 20% of the men sick from diseases. During the war the ANZACs had to face terrible conditions, from the constant noise of machine guns, bullets, cramped and dirty places, hunger, thirst, tiredness, deaths of soldiers, diseases, smell, unsanitary food.

Auschwitz had the worst sanitation because they did not have enough supplies for people 6to be properly clean. In this camp specifically, there were not enough room for everyone to “live well”. For example, in their cabins where they slept at, the prisoners shared a mattress which was meant for one, but was usually shared with 3-5 people. At this time, there were diseases being spread throughout the air like wildfire. So whenever they slept in real small spaces together, the diseases were spread very easily because they were all breathing the same air. The “cleaning staff” did not have the resources to properly clean the barracks. Another example of the lack of sanitation would be the plumbing aspect of it. At Auschwitz, the barracks were made with 20-22 toilets in them. The barracks were shared by over 1,700 people at a time.

First, they would make a foundation, which was normally just dirt that got flattened out. During the process of making the barracks they didn't really worry about drainage and ventilation throughout the building, which you would if you were to build a pole barn.

This included no private bedrooms and the military could determine when you ate, took a shower, woke up in the morning and went to sleep. The bathrooms are not always private either, Jim had to use “gang showers” where the soldiers all had to shower in a line out in the open. The military determines where you will live and when you have free time. This means they have huge influence over a soldier’s personal life. “The biggest difference between military and civilian life is lack of freedom. You know when you get home from school you can pretty much do whatever you want, but in the military you always have a job to do and always have the duties. You still have to maintain physical

By the end of the war, conditions were terrible. Barracks built to sleep 250 women slept up to 2,000 women. Three to four women shared each bed. Many did not even have a bed and were left lying on the floor with no blanket. There was a plague of lice in the barracks. All the women were to cut off their hair because of this. There was also danger of getting disease from the water. In each barrack, there was one washroom and three toilets. The toilets had no doors and were in very poor conditions. The women were awake for roll call at 4:00 a.m. After everyone was accounted for, they were sent off to work long days. All these conditions made life in the barracks unbearable and many people

You will be issued linens, a bedroll, personal hygiene items and a plastic storage container before you are escorted to your housing unit.

Military recruits are uniquely susceptible to respiratory infections. This is largely attributed to factors associated with a shared, closed environment, greater than usual social proximity, as well as physical and mental stress during

A soldier’s wellbeing and cleanliness was very high maintained. Daily washing of equipment, bath and exercises were mandatory for soldiers, a healthy environment was needed to achieve such. Using the advice of Varro, whose theory of contagion is similar to the germ theory introduced in the 19th century, Roman forts and camps were never close to swamps and standing water , the Romans in fact designed buildings and roads so that rainwater pouring

In Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia in 1915, prisoner of war camps were definitely not clean. that year a severe typhus disease thong broke out which cost the lives of thousands of prisoners.

This seems to be a fairly general rule: if you want to stack Cheerios boxes or vacuum hotel rooms in chemically fascist America, you have to be willing to squat down and pee in front of a health worker (who has no doubt had to do the same thing herself.) (Ehrenreich 14).

Why do they even care about keeping up with hygiene? In all the other cells they either bathed once a week or whenever everyone else in the cell agreed that they smelled. I didn't want any riot, so I bathed once a week. Never combed my hair though. Just