But beyond superstition and discrimination, many Indian women face the straightforward lack of clean, safe lavatory facilities.
"We recently got a government health centre, but we have only two or three lavatory facilities and no clean water.
In many prisons I have seen shower and lavatory facilities that are filthy and dilapidated, but with no credible or affordable plans for refurbishment.
So the best way to change the minds of future women is to keep girls in school today, and basic lavatory facilities are one of the easiest ways to do that.
It is, they concede – perhaps out of some folk memory of what happened in 1649 – imperative to spend responsibly, bearing in mind the obvious requirement for the Duke of York to be protected from shared lavatory facilities.
He established a printing shop to produce and bind his manuscripts in his own way, he imported Augsburg craftsmen to construct the finest astronomical instruments, he induced Italian and Dutch artists and architects to design and decorate his observatory, and he invented a pressure system to provide the then uncommon convenience of sanitary lavatory facilities.
Questions about risk factors revealed that 50% of the families kept pigs in the home, 58% had no lavatory facilities and 49% had no running water in the home.
In some areas, young girls do not go to school because there no lavatory facilities for them – affecting not only their education, but their dignity and self-esteem as well.
This theme relates particularly to the DH [ 33] issues relating to assistance in eating meals, privacy and access to lavatory and bathroom facilities.
In 2001 the choir vestry was remodeled, this work was undertaken with a generous grant from The Pilling Trust, at the same time a lavatory with facilities for the disabled was constructed.
