High School Bathrooms

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The results found where not as those hypothesised. Of all 8 swabs, bacteria were found on each sample. The results found that bacterial count peaked at its highest for high school aged students, with 3065000 bacterial cells being found on the senior 8-10 locker room female bathrooms. Also early learning centre students, whilst being the youngest held the least amount of bacteria on the bathroom door handle with only 12100 bacterial cells; only 3.3% of the bacterial count on senior locker rooms. It was predicted that there would be a gradual decrease of bacterial count on bathroom door handles as the age of the user increased, though as shown in figure 9, there was a significant increase in bacterial count from infant to teenager.

These results did not take into account the amount of people who came into contact with the door handle. There are roughly 300 students that use the senior bathrooms daily, this is the predominant reason that the bacteria count was so excessive. Less than 100 students use the early learning centre bathrooms and less than 50 staff members circulate through the staff bathrooms. Although if circulation numbers were in proportion to student use, there would be at least ten times the bacteria found on the door handles in the early learning centre. Although the low bacterial count could be contributed to the fact that …show more content…

With limited restrictions of time or use of bathrooms, this could have also been the reason for such an extreme increase, with many female teenagers spending more time in front of the mirror, fixing their hair, make-up or uniform. Whereas students aged 7-12 are only allowed to enter bathroom after asking and are not allowed to enter the bathroom whenever they

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