Here is a Sanitation Kit IV drum. It's just a regular fiber storage drum with a very official type label. All of these kits I have seen have been manufactured by the Continental Can Co. New York. The Civil Defense Fallout Shelter Manager Textbook lists SKIII and SKIV sanitation kits. The SKIII kit is listed to supply 25 persons for 2 weeks and is shown below. The SKIV is listed to supply 50 persons for 2 weeks and is shown in this picture. The SKIV here is from my collection. "Supplies 50 Persons" can be clearly seen on the label.

This is the SKIII drum. I FINALLY got one. This kit has been the most hard to find of all the shelter supplies in my 20+ years of collecting. Unfortunaltely I didn't find this one in a shelter though. I got this kit from an Ebay.com seller. This kit was manufactured by the Greif Bros. Cooperage Corp. 1962. The kit is complete except for the hand cleaner. The "OK" on the label was put on when the hand cleaner was removed. Most of the sanitation kits I have found have had the hand cleaner removed. I have heard from a few people who said that the hand cleaner had hexachlorophene in it and that's why it was removed although the medical kit surgical soap had the same stuff in it and it wasn't removed from the medical kits so who knows. Removal of the hand cleaner also might have been due to leakage of the cans ruining the contents of the kit.

Here is the SKIII packed. There are 2 boxes with the various supplies and a plastic toilet seat in the middle. The SKIV is packed similar to this but the 10 toilet paper rolls are put in the bottom of the drum with the boxes on top of the rolls. In the SKIII the 5 toilet paper rolls are in one of the boxes and the boxes are a little longer than the SKIV. If this doesn't sound like Civil Defense collector minutiae nothing does :-)

Here is the inside of the boxes in the SKIII. The instruction sheet and plastic liners are at the top of the picture. Toilet seat at the bottom of the picture. See a more detailed picture and list of the contents below.

Here is a picture of a sample of the contents of the kit (less sanitary napkins). The items in the picture (clockwise from upper left) are, plastic cups and lids, vintage roll of Scott tissue, envelope of toilet chemical packets, can of the dreaded waterless hand cleaner, can opener with wire tie wrap, plastic toilet liner bag, package of plastic gloves, instruction sheet and a siphon hose for the water drums.

Sanitation Kit Contents List

Kit Item	SKIII	SKIV
Commode Seat, Plastic	1	1
Can Opener (manual)	1	1
Sanitary Napkins	36	60
Hand Cleaner (can)	1	1
Polyethelene Gloves (pair)	1	1
Water Dispensing Spout	1	1
Tie Wire (bag closing)	1	1
Cups and Lids (plastic)	35	70
Commode Chemical (pack)	6	12
Poly Bag Liners (commode)	1	1
Instruction Sheet	1	1
Toilet Tissue	5	10