TROPICAL SANITATION IN ITS RELATION TO GENERAL SANITATION

Practical Tropical Sanitation

Practical Tropical Sanitation

on sanitation, causes of diseases, mosquitoes, tropical diseases, disinfection, air and ventilation, food, water-supplies, disposal of refuse, etc., and sanitary law. The book is clearly and simply written, and admirably and fully illustrated. The chapter on disinfection struck us as very good and the various means of purifying water are well described. There is a very useful appendix containin...

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases

SANITATION AND HYGIENE TO COMBAT NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES INITIAL LESSONS FROM PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION Access to water, sanitation and hygiene is fundamental for health. It plays a critical role the prevention and management of diseases including neglected tropical diseases which affect over 1 billion people among the poorest communities. WASH is one of five public health interventions to con...

Ecological Sanitation--a way to solve global sanitation problems?

Today about 2.4 billion people in rural and urban areas do not have access to adequate sanitation services. Within 20 years, it is expected that an additional 2 billion will live in towns and cities, mainly in developing countries, demanding sanitation. Still over 90% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. Conventional sanitation co...

Sanitation in Bombay and Its Neighbourhood

of the horse-shoe to which the city of Bombay may be likened. Year after year protests have arisen as to this method of disposal, but with the true Oriental apathy which seems to characterize most of the public departments in Bombay, the matter has been allowed to drag along, and even now is not entirely settled. Two years and a half ago we were informed by a high official in the Bombay Municip...