HEALTH AND HYGIENE REPORT NUMBER 1 AS AT 21 NOV 90

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Subject: HEALTH AND HYGIENE REPORT  NUMBER 1 AS AT 21 NOV 90             

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Folder Title: HEALTH AND HYGIENE REPORT-NUMBER 2 AS OF 21 NOV 1990                                            

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                    b.   @'oor personal hygiene in that troops are not
                    washing their hands after using. the latrines and
                    before meals.
               25. it was originally intended that individual s@ldiers spend
               only 48 hours in the shedx while they completed their reception
               procedures. in the event, many were accommodated there for up to
               3 weeks. The sanitary conditions were appalling. Latrineq and,
               skips were in xhort xupply. The units in the Sheds did not
               provide fatigue parties and keep the place as clean ax they might
               have done. It was by the Grace of God that there was not a major
               outbreak of diarrhoeal disease. It is proposed to route
               reinforcements through the Sheds in some weeks' time. They must
               xpend the minimum amount of time there and go to more appropriate
               accommodation as soon as possible.

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               26. -From the health and hygiene point of view, the inital
               deployment has gone well. Units are well established and the
               incidence of preventable disease has been low. However, unless
               more stringent precautions are taken, the incidence of diarrhoeal
               disease is set to rise even further. To use the Sh4do again to
               accommodate large numbers of troops for long periods would be to
               court disaster.
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