The reconstitution of a special Imperial Sanitary Department is undoubted]}7 an important step as emphasising the determination of the Indian Government to pay special attention to sanitary matters and obtain the best available advice regarding subjects affecting public health. The best feature of the new order of things is, I think, the resolve to organise research laboratories in the chief ce...

Arch Dis Child January 2011 Vol 96 No 1 111 illustrates that black girls, but also probably Turkish girls and those of mixed ethnicities, are likely to have early pubertal maturation compared to white girls. Girls could access sanitary towels in 91% of schools but only on asking, with none available in toilets. Most schools (95%) provided sanitary bins but mainly only in designated toilets. Int...

landfilling is an ultimate fate of any municipal solid waste management system, and it is a no alternative choice for disposal of municipal solid waste. the major environmental concerns associated with landfilling of wastes are related to the leachate generation and eventual discharge of leachate into the environment. leachate quality is formed due to aerobic and anaerobic processes taking plac...

Five durum wheat cultivars were grown in a Mediterranean area (Southern Italy) under conventional and organic farming with the aim to evaluate agronomic, technological, sensory, and sanitary quality of grains and pasta. The cultivar Matt produced the best pasta quality under conventional cropping system, while the quality parameters evaluated were unsatisfactory under organic farming. The culti...

Survey of sanitation conditions by qualitative sanitation measurement were carried out in three districts, Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. The sanitation of each household was assessed in terms of positive stool examination and scores of seven main sanitary activities which were used to classify each household's sanitation as hygienic or non-hygienic. Stool collections were made from each hous...

Arsenic contamination in drinking-water in Bangladesh is a major catastrophe, the consequences of which exceed most other man-made disasters. The national policy encourages the use of surface water as much as possible without encountering the problems of sanitation that led to the use of groundwater in the first place. This paper describes the success of the Dhaka Community Hospital (DCH) team ...

1 Published in Spanish in B&tin de la Oficina Sanikm%z Panamericana Vol. LXII, No. 6 (June 1967), pp. 531-537. 2 Consultant in Sanitary Engineering Education, PAHO/WHO, Zone II, Mexico City. future in view of the increasing needs in environmental sanitation. Manpower is the major factor in the success or failure of the national sanitation programs, for the financing problem has been largely ove...