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If you are interested in learning about the hygiene of WWI soldiers, then you have come to the right place!
Hygiene: "Conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness."
Sanitation: "Conditions relating to public health, especially the provision of clean drinking water and adequate disposal of sewage."
Although hygiene is the main topic of this whole website, you have to talk about sanitation in order to understand the overall concept. Sanitation now is misunderstood. When someone hears the word sanitation they think of a dirty trash man. But in reality, it is quite the opposite, it means environmental health and preventing hazards of waste. In order to have good hygiene, you must have good sanitation. During the early 1900's it was very difficult to keep up with good sanitation; especially if you were a soldier. Consequences of bad hygiene could have been effected by the soldier's carelessness or their atmosphere. Living in such cramped conditions like a trench with thousands of people and animals was practically a death sentence. Most soldiers didn't even both keeping themselves clean as they spent their days waist deep in muddy, bloody water. As hard as the soldiers tried to keep clean, some form of disease would always win. More soldiers died from diseases than from wounds received during battle.
Throughout this topic we will discuss the differences between good hygiene, bad hygiene, and ways it was supposed to be prevented.
Sanitation: "Conditions relating to public health, especially the provision of clean drinking water and adequate disposal of sewage."
Although hygiene is the main topic of this whole website, you have to talk about sanitation in order to understand the overall concept. Sanitation now is misunderstood. When someone hears the word sanitation they think of a dirty trash man. But in reality, it is quite the opposite, it means environmental health and preventing hazards of waste. In order to have good hygiene, you must have good sanitation. During the early 1900's it was very difficult to keep up with good sanitation; especially if you were a soldier. Consequences of bad hygiene could have been effected by the soldier's carelessness or their atmosphere. Living in such cramped conditions like a trench with thousands of people and animals was practically a death sentence. Most soldiers didn't even both keeping themselves clean as they spent their days waist deep in muddy, bloody water. As hard as the soldiers tried to keep clean, some form of disease would always win. More soldiers died from diseases than from wounds received during battle.
Throughout this topic we will discuss the differences between good hygiene, bad hygiene, and ways it was supposed to be prevented.