User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in New Hampshire
| Public toilets in New Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 a toilet in a Manchester, New Hampshire cafe | |
| Language of toilets | |
| Local words | washroom restroom john |
| Men's toilets | Men |
| Women's toilets | Women |
| Public toilet statistics | |
| Toilets per 100,000 people | 10 (2021) |
| Total toilets | ?? |
| Public toilet use | |
| Type | Western style sit toilet |
| Locations | public accomodations hotels stores restaurants coffee shops |
| Average cost | ??? |
| Often equipped with | ??? |
| Percent accessible | ??? |
| Date first modern public toilets | ??? |
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Public toilets in New Hampshire, commonly called washrooms, are found at a rate of around ten public toilets per 100,000 people.
Public toilets
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washroom is one of the most commonly used words for public toilet in the United States.[1] Euphemisms are often used to avoid discussing the purpose of toilets. Words used include toilet, restroom, bathroom, lavatory and john.[2]
A 2021 study found there were ten public toilets per 100,000 people.[3] The cleanest public toilets at a gas station in New Hampshire, according to the GasBuddy, in 2019 were found at Irving.[4]
Public toilets are often located in semi-private public accommodations like hotels, stores, restaurants and coffee shops instead of being street level municipal maintained facilities.[5]
The toilets at the Music Hall in Portsmouth were second in Cintas' America’s Best Restroom Contest in 2015.[6]
History
[edit]As the Prohibition effort began to take more shape in the 1910s, large cities in the Northeast and Midwest had women's groups advocating for the creation of large numbers of comfort stations as a way of discouraging men from entering drinking establishments in search of public toilets. This was successful in many places in getting cities to build comfort stations, but the volume of new public toilets built was rarely enough to meet public needs.[5] Because Prohibition saw an increase in the construction of public toilets to address the new found demand, many municipalities located outside the South built sex-segregated public toilets that were essentially the same construction inside, with the same number of stalls and layout for each.[5]
A dad in New Hampshire went viral after needing to change his baby's diaper on the floor of a public toilet as a result of a lack of changing tables in the men's room.[7]
Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg ordered Parks and Recreation Director Mark Gomez to remove a pair of portable public toilets on the edge of Veterans Park in Manchester in May 2021 because when the serving mostly homeless people toilets lacked an attendant, they became places where illegal substances were being consumed. The toilets had been there since 2019 when the local government decided it was an easier solution than paying for repairs and maintenance on the public toilets at the local tourist offices.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Hess, Nico (2019-08-04). Introducing Global Englishes. Scientific e-Resources. ISBN 978-1-83947-299-2.
- ^ Farb, Peter (2015-08-19). Word Play: What Happens When People Talk. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-97129-1.
- ^ QS Supplies (11 October 2021). "Which Cities Have The Most and Fewest Public Toilets?". QS Supplies. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ Adams, Kirby. "Hitting the road? Here's a list of the nicest gas station bathrooms in each state". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ a b c Baldwin, P. C. (2014-12-01). "Public Privacy: Restrooms in American Cities, 1869-1932". Journal of Social History. 48 (2): 264–288. doi:10.1093/jsh/shu073. ISSN 0022-4529.
- ^ "Are these the best public restrooms in the US?". Quartz. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
- ^ "We need more public toilets. Too many people are squatting between parked cars | Lezlie Lowe". the Guardian. 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
- ^ "Beyond bathrooms: 'Safety concerns' lead to removal of portable toilets from Veterans Park | Manchester Ink Link". manchesterinklink.com. 2021-05-28. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
