I have stats for you @Manfreglory !
11% of cardiac arrests happen on the toilet.
Heart and circulatory diseases cause around a quarter (26 per cent) of all deaths in the UK; that's more than 170,000 deaths a year, or 480 each day – one every three minutes.
There’s a stroke on average every five minutes in the U.K. Stroke is a medical emergency that requires immediate attention as every minute is vital.
Almost 4.6 million people in the UK live with diabetes diagnoses. Additionally, nearly 1.3 million people could be living with type 2 diabetes who are yet to be diagnosed. Every week, diabetes leads to more than 980 strokes, 680 heart attacks and 3,230 cases of heart failure.
There are 630,000 people with epilepsy living in the UK, around one in every 100 people. Every day, 80 people are diagnosed. One in every four people newly diagnosed with epilepsy is over the age of 65. One in 67 older people have epilepsy and this number is likely to keep increasing.
Theres more stats on choking in toilets and asthma in toilets but you get the jist…
You know what the best design for people who rush to a public loo when feeling ill is?
Single sex design. Because they can have door gaps. So if you end up on the floor of a cubicle, you can be seen to be rescued quickly.
BUT if who is in the toilets is ambiguous, even single sex designs become private.
So mixed sex designs are always private, despite the fact that there are well documented medical reasons for so many people becoming ill on the loo.
When there was lots of consultation for document T on toilets, the government commissioned a report to inform the design for those with long term health conditions like those above.
Guess why the company who did that consultation decided to endorse enclosing toilet designs instead?
If everyone sticks to the toilet of their sex, designs can be safer for anyone at their most vulnerable.