medical department existed, in India, medical officers serving both the crown and company have?albeit quietly and without the aid of minutes from the Army Sanitary Commission?been practising preventive medicine?taking thought and initiating effort to the end of removing potent causes of disease, and promoting sanitary improvements. In the second place, we entirely agree with him in his opinions...

August 1873, remarked :? " If, as I believe, the art of ,cure has really advanced greatly in the last forty years, the art of prevention has also made great progress, and this has certainly arisen from the improvement in diagnosis. The recognition of a disease, and its reference to a particular category. inevitably lead the mind to probe its causes. This seems an instinct of our nature, probabl...

Article history: Received on: 05/01/2015 Revised on: 22/01/2015 Accepted on: 07/02/2015 Available online: 27/02/2015 The purpose of current study was to compare the influence on sanitary hygienic parameters of water in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) using natural zeolite and macrophytes Lemna minor and Elodea canadensis like a part of its filtration system with the microbiological indi...

Hospital sanitary microbiology laboratories perform the sanitary inspection, especially in high-risk wards, control hospital flora contamination, which is often multiresistant, perform the periodic monitoring of staff at risk and the examination of persons outside the institution. Data on chemotherapy, germs and tested samples from a sanitary microbiology laboratory revealed specific issues. Th...

Acute gastroenteritis is probably the most important public health problem. The association of flies as mechanical vectors in transmission of the causative agent is evident due to their behavioural characteristics which ensure their contact with food and wastes of man and animals. The present study was of six months duration from 1 st June, 2008 to 30 th November, 2008, 7200 flies were used for...

The provisions of the World Trade Organisation Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures are designed to extend the liberalisation of trade, without increasing the risk to public, animal or plant health. The international standards set by the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) will be used as a benchmark by World Trade Organisation panels and committees when eva...

The present study was aimed at determining the relationship between the operation of municipal landfills and the fluctuations of bacterial indicators of the sanitary quality of soil. Soil samples were collected at monthly intervals from May 2010 to April 2011 at ten sampling sites located on the premises and in vicinity of the reclaimed Municipal Landfill Site (MLS) and the new Municipal Solid ...

About 400 million school-age children are infected with roundworm, whipworm and hookworm worldwide. This study aims to assess prevalence of parasitic infections among rural primary school pupils at Minia Governorate, Egypt, and to identify relevant predisposing factors of the school and pupils to intestinal parasitic infections. A total of 264 pupils out of 1,053, aged 6-12 years, were randomly...

A modified sanitary napkin was compared with endocervical swab and urine specimens for the detection of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Endocervical swabs and/or first-catch urine were collected from 510 women at medical or community settings in Quebec City. Participants were also asked to wear a modified sanitary napkin (Ezy-Detek) during 4 consecutive hours and to bring it back to...