User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in Indiana

Public toilets in Indiana, commonly called washrooms, are found at a rate of around four public toilets per 100,000 people.

Public toilets
washroom is one of the most commonly used words for public toilet in the United States. Euphemisms are often used to avoid discussing the purpose of toilets. Words used include toilet, restroom, bathroom, lavatory and john.

A 2021 study found there were four public toilets per 100,000 people.

History
Railway stations began building big terminals in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s. One of their features were big public toilet facilities. Train station designer Walter G. Berg said in his 1893 that public toilet facilities should be used to keep undesirable elements out.

Dr. L. L. Lumsden and his coworkers at the Public Health Service did a house-to-house survey of sanitation conditions in 18 counties located across 16 different stated between 1914 and 1917. The results of the survey helped convince local governments in West Virginia, Indiana and Washington that investing in public toilets was a good investment for their communities.

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.