presanitary

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ sanitary

Adjective

presanitary (not comparable)

1. Before sanitation.
   • 1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541:

     It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.