IV.7.4
SUPERIOR METHODS OF SANITATION
It is equally clear that accounting for the needs of a concentrated
body of people would foster the invention of
superior methods of sanitation. Our account of the privies
attached to the various homes shown on the Plan of St. Gall
discloses that the standards of sanitary hygiene in a paradigmatic
monastery of the time of Louis the Pious were far
advanced not only over those of any of their classical protoand
antetypes, but—with the sole exception of modern deluxe
hotels—even conspicuously superior to common
standards of modern sanitation.[218]
