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...

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...

j I AM anxious to bring to professional notice a remarkable ^ instance of the seemingly mysterious generation of fever and cholera in certain localities, the present case being one in which these two scourges have chosen, what I maintain to be, one of their most favorite breeding dens. Ir. is not the ruined, weed-covered, and slimy tank, nor the foul looking pond put to foul uses and surrounded...

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...

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...