Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-12
40, GOO Privies Built In
State With WPA Finances;
Number OF Jobs Provided

Raleigh, Sept. 12-More than 10000
nriyies. involving total cost in labor
and materials of $3,864,781.2 20, have
been built in North Carolina, in con-
nection with the community SANTA
tion program, it was announced bv
DR.. Carl v. Reynolds, State health
officer.
~ consider this undertaking an out
standing service to the State Of North
Carolina" DR.. Reynolds declared. s.in
that it. furnishes sanitary convent
ences to class who, otherwise, would
be unable to secure them, but its ma
iojrr Importance lies in the fact that
it works toward the prevention of typ
hold fever, diarrhea, dysentery. hook
worm and other diseases which may
become prevalent through the, absence
of adequate sanitary facilities"
While the program. was launched
during the lifetime of the CWA, it
continued. in cooperation with the
ERA and has reached its present pro-
portions as a cooperative project with
The WPA.
The report OF B. L. Jessup. State
Director of County Sanitation, who
was loaned to the United States Pub
lie Health Service by the North Car.
DINA State Board of Health, shows
that during the six months from Jan
uary through July 2, 1888, 1898
units were built, at an average cost of
$29 for labor and Materials plus SO
cents for supervision, which is the
lowest of any State whose figures
have been tabulated The supervision
cost per unit in Indiana, for example,
is 1927, while the lowest figure next
to North Carolina is 81 cents for Ten.
iessee.
During the past six months Direc-
tor Jessup said, total expenditures in
North Carolina amounted to $3.50, 543.-
As, including $256,O8O.40 for labor and
1924 ,463.05 for materials. During the
preceding six months the number of
units built was 13,4O9, involving ex-
penditures aggregating 1913. 95813, in
Guiding $169, 872.53 for labor and
$2O4, 0856O FOR materials.
With the North Carolina State
Board of Health as sponsor, the labor
cost is borne by the WPA, the cost
of supervision by the United States
Public Health Service, and the cost
of materials by the property owners
for when the privies are built. OF
the 100000 units so far erected since
the program was launched, SO, 256
were built in cooperation with the
CWA, 22,8S3 in cooperation with the
ERA, while 1889 have been built with
the WPA bearing labor costs. The
WPA has horne total of 81, 025,O4 a
81 in labor costs, the ERA 1924, O1O.-
SO and the CWA $627, $50. making
a grand total of 81, 876, 344.23 for labor
Of the $1,988 426.97 spent for ma
terials, 81. 131, 597.49 represents the pc
riod of cooperation by the WPA $685.
1914 under the ERA and $572, 745O47
under the CWA, Mr.. Jessup said.
For the period extending from July
last year, to January, 1885, he went
on, "487 per cent of the units built
were of the concrete slab and riser
type, compared with 1873 per cent for
the first six months of 1885,
OF the 1888 privies built in II
counties this year, Buncombe leads.
with 1850, while Mecklenburg is al
close second, with 1,214. The State is
divided into five community SANTA
ton districts, the first, or mountain,
district, leading with 5,765 new units!
next, the fourth district, made up Of
Piedmont counties, with SAB, follow
ed by the second, composed of Coastal
Plain Counties, with 1898 The fifth
district, in the southeastern part of
the State, was next in order, with O.
$685. while 2.001 were built in the tier
of counties from Wilson to Guilford.
The average number of men en-
ployed per week during the period
was 1,189.
Units have been built this year by
districts in the various counties as
follows:
First-Avery, S1s; Buncombe, 1850;
Burke 55; Caldwell, 1876; Cherokee
229; Clay, 1873; CASTOR, 100; Graham,
126; Haywood, 404; Henderson, 25;
Jackson, 319; Lincoln sigS; Macon, 1876;
Mcdowell. S7S; mitchell, 295; Ruther-
ford, 81; Swain, 172; Pennsylvania.
269; Yancey, 282-total 5,765.
Second Beaufort, 291; BERTHE, 321;
Carteret, 252; Chowan, 39; Craven.
2OS; Dare, 81; Edgecombe, 49,. Gates,
131; Greene, %; Halifax, 348;; Hert-