Field Sanitation

1. Human.
2. Liquid.
3. Garbage.
4. Rubbish.

5 gallons.

100 feet.

Water that is safe to drink.

1-foot wide, 4-foot long and 2 ½-foot deep.

36 gallons.

6 to 12 inches.

A disease that ca be transmitted person to person, animal to person and insect to person.

1. Fingers.
2. Feces.
3. Flies.
4. Foods.
5. Fluids.

• Immunization.
• Personal hygiene.

FM 4-25.12.

FM 21-10.

The use of measures to create and maintain healthful environmental conditions, these include safeguarding food, safeguarding water, and controlling disease bearing insects and rodents.

Any living organism (fleas, ticks, lice, mosquitoes etc.) used to disseminate biological agents.

Water that is pleasing to the taste, but which may be unsafe.

1. Respiratory.
2. Intestinal.
3. Insect borne.
4. Venereal.
5. Miscellaneous.

• Typhoid.
• Cholera.
• Dysentery.

1. Drink only from approved sources.
2. Conserve water.
3. Do not contaminate your sources.

1. Poison ivy.
2. Poison oak.
3. Poison sumac.

At least 100 meters downhill or downstream.

• Malaria.
• Dengue.
• Yellow fever.
• Encephalitis.
• Filariasis.

• Straddle trench.
• Mound latrine.
• Burn out latrine.
• Deep pit.
• Bore hole latrines.
• Pail latrines.
• Urine soak pits.

30 yards and no closer than 100 feet from any water sources.

8 percent.

• Common diarrhea.
• Leptospirosis.
• Cholera.
• Dysentery.
• Bacillary.
• Typhoid.
• Paratyphoid fever.

1. Iodine tablets.
2. Boiling.

Medical personnel.