| Methods | Cluster non‐randomized controlled trial among 4 clusters (1 intervention and 3 control towns). Intervention was allocated to the clusters by the researchers based on intervention town's previous participation in a fly study | |
| Participants | 1332 individuals of all ages | |
| Interventions | Replaced "surface" and other "unsatisfactory privies" with new privy or rehabilitated old privy with 8‐ ft deep bored well, additional privies remodelled at schools, churches and commercial buildings | |
| Outcomes | Diarrhoea incidence, prevalence of Shigella spp. isolated from stools of children < 10 years of age, prevalence of flies breeding in privies | |
| Location | Rural USA | |
| Lenth of follow up | 18 months | |
| Notes | ||
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