Field Hygiene and Sanitation

Question 1

What is field sanitation?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What are the 4 types of waste?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is the water requirement per person, per day in a temperate zone?

Answer 3

5 gallons.

Question 4

A latrine can be no closer than what distance to a water source?

Answer 4

100 ft.

Question 5

What is potable water?

Answer 5

Water that is safe to drink.

Question 6

What are the five “F”s of field sanitation?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What are two ways to purify water?

Answer 7

1. Iodine tablets.
2. Boiling.

Question 8

What are the three most common poison plants?

Answer 8

1. Poison Ivy.
2. Poison Oak.
3. Poison Sumac.

Question 9

What are some diseases carried by the fly?

Answer 9

1. Typhoid.
2. Cholera.
3. Dysentery.

Question 10

What are some of the diseases carried by the mosquito?

Answer 10

1. Malaria.
2. Dengue.
3. Yellow Fever.
4. Encephalitis.
5. Filariasis.