hygiene facilities

hygiene facilities
   a lavatory
   Hygeia was a the Greek goddess of health, which seems quite a step from lavatories and sanitary towels (see personal hygiene):
    ... such was the Menezes's monopoly of hygiene facilities that Carmen's people were reduced to performing their natural functions in the open air. (Rushdie, 1995)

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