User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in Oklahoma

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

The Common Drinking Cups and Common Towels  - Prohibited in Public Places regulation came into effect on June 1, 1917. It said, !That the use of common roller towels and drinking cups in public toilets, public wash rooms, department stores, schools, factories, or hotels, and all of others of a public character, is hereby prohibited from and after June 1, 1917."  It banned the facility from having them and banned people from providing them.

Langston City High School in Langston won a poster contest held by the National Negro Health News in 1946 for teaching about good health. When giving the award, they noted that, "The city itself could set an excellent example to the citizens in the cleanliness of its streets, alleys, and public toilets."

A Korean sanitary inspector went to the University of Oklahoma in 1957 for training in sanitary inspection in line with United States standards. He was the first Korean to take part in the program. Topics related to this program included public wells, public toilets, night soil tanks and public baths.

There was a push back against building public toilets in Jim Crow states during the period between 1865 and 1960, because it meant that local governments were not just required to build two toilets, one for men and one for women, but four toilets, one each for men and women who were white and who were colored. Racially segregated public toilets were very common in the 1960s.

Warrants related to criminal cases occurring at hotels in the early 1950s sometimes included public toilets and public bathrooms.

Oklahoma was given USD$22,200.00 in 1970 and 1972 in federal aid for Fish and Wildlife Restoration that was earmarked for the Atoka Game Management area, to provide development to connect a line to the water system and public toilets, along with repairing a building.

Illinois, Oklahoma, Florida and North Carolina did not ratify the 1973 Equal Rights Amendment. It is possible the opposition framing the constitutional amendment as requiring all public toilets become unisex played some role in the lack of ratification.