Too great stress cannot be laid upon the question of sanitation. Make
the camp safe if you would have a healthful, happy camp, and keep it
orderly if you would keep it safe. The time to make the camp safe is
before and during the process of building and prior to each camp season
if an old camp is used. Certain known things are fore-runners of trouble
and should be avoided or safeguarded against from the start. Among these
are low, damp ground, impure water, an insufficient supply of water,
unsafe bathing conditions, such as deep water only, a very swift
current, undertow, shallow water and a quick drop, holes, and so forth;
proximity to pest breeding places such as pools of stagnant water,
marshes where mosquitoes breed, uncared-for out houses, barns, and
dumps; inadequate latrine facilities, and so forth.
The keeping of the camp safe is a daily matter which includes the
disposal of all waste, the cleaning of the camp grounds and all
buildings, the inspection of the water supply, provisions, equipment,
the latter in a general way, the guarding against pests of any kind and
the personal health of the campers.