School environment and sanitation in rural India

Scaling up Rural Sanitation in India

Clarissa Brocklehurst discusses the study by Patil and colleagues on a sanitation program in India and highlights the challenges ahead to improve the situation for millions of people who still have no option but to practice open defecation. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

The toilet tripod: understanding successful sanitation in rural India.

Building toilets and getting people to use them is critical for public health. We deployed a political ecology approach specifically to identify the multi-scalar political, economic, and environmental factors influencing toilet adoption in rural India. The research used ethnographic and technical methods in rural villages of West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh over the period September 2012 to May...

Rural Sanitation in Egypt

Sanitation in India

-By J. A. Turner, m.d., D.P.H., Executive Health Officer, Bombay Municipality. The Times of India, Bombay. Under the above title Dr. Turner lias brought out a work of over a thousand pages dealing in a masterly manner and in considerable detail with all that concerns sanitation, particularly as to its application under the adverse conditions which obtain in India. The text is largely an amplifi...

Results of Sanitation in India

Surgeon, Rajpootana Political Agency. Under the above heading, an article of mine appeared in tho Indian Medical Gazette for Juno 1867. It was then demonstrated, that notwithstanding the close attention paid to sanitation during recent years, in spite of an almost lavish expenditure on palatial, upper-storied barracks, and in defiance of tho expectations of sanitary reformers, the total loss of...