Hygiene as Applied to Tropical and Sub-Tropical Climates

Architectural Objectives in Tropical Climates (Comparing Climatic Patterns in Vernacular Houses of Bandar-e-Lenge and Dezful)

Effects of neglecting climatic patterns in buildings are more intense in severe climates such as tropical. It isresulting an excessive consumption of fossil fuels and consequently environmental pollutions in and after modern era. The objective of this research is to find climate-oriented intentions and solutions in tropical areas and compare them with Dezful and Bandar-e-Lenge vernacular houses...

European cloth and "tropical" skin: clothing material and British ideas of health and hygiene in tropical climates.

SUMMARY As Britain's imperial and colonial ambitions intensified toward the end of the nineteenth century, the preservation of white European health in tropical climates became an increasingly important concern. Since at least the seventeenth century, the "tropics" had been seen as spaces holding vast potential wealth but also death and disease. To combat these deadly but desirable landscapes, ...

Pollutant removal by Canna Generalis in tropical constructed wetlands for domestic wastewater treatment

Constructed wetlands have not been commonly used in Vietnam due to the lack of information in the selection of proper types of constructed wetlands, type of reeds, design parameters and performance efficiency, in tropical climates. This paper focuses on Canna generalis, which is a common reed and easy to grow both in water and wet land conditions. Two kinds of hybrid constructed wetlan...

Heat illness in infants and small children in desert climates.

The early British and American journals of tropical medicine and hygiene: an informal survey.

An old proverb tells us that "the ink of science is more precious than the blood of martyrs". Some might argue that point, but no one would deny that we have spilled vast quantities of ink into the vessels we call journals, including those concerned with tropical diseases. But before turning to those journals, we might well ask: What are the tropical diseases? No one is quite sure how to define...