Indian Hygiene and Public Health

C. L. Dunn, D. D. Pandya

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781483200682
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483225715
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Indian Hygiene and Public Health is a handbook on hygiene and public health in India and covers topics ranging from the purification of water supply to the effects of impure air on hygiene and health. Collection and disposal of refuse, excreta, and sewage in Indian villages are also discussed, along with communicable diseases of the tropics and sanitary law in India. Comprised of 18 chapters, this book first looks at the sources of water supply, sources of water pollution, and protection of well water supplies in India. The reader is then introduced to methods of purification of water supplies, including filtration methods and chemical methods such as the chlorine method and the ozone method. Subsequent chapters deal with air pollution and its health effects; practical application of the principles of ventilation; collection and disposal of refuse, excreta, and sewage in Indian villages; artificial water-logging and surface drainage; and diseases caused by adulteration of food. Meat inspection, personal and school hygiene, and disinfection are also taken into account. This monograph will be of interest to medical health officers as well as students, workers, and officials in the fields of hygiene, sanitation, and public health.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Indian Hygiene and Public Health
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• PREFACE
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• INDIAN HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
• CHAPTER I. WATER SUPPLY
• CHAPTER II. THE PURIFICATION OF WATER SUPPLIES
• CHAPTER III. AIR AND VENTILATION
• CHAPTER IV. The Disposal of Refuse
• CHAPTER V. DISPOSAL OF EXCRETA—CONSERVANCY
• CHAPTER VI. DISPOSAL OF EXCRETA.—WATER CARRIAGE SYSTEM
• CHAPTER VII. SITES, SUBSOIL AND SURFACE DRAINAGE
• CHAPTER VIII. FOOD SUPPLY
• CHAPTER IX. MEAT INSPECTION
• CHAPTER Χ. THE COMMON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF THE TROPICS—EPIDEMIC AND ENDEMIC—AND THE CHANNELS BY WHICH THEY ARE COMMUNICATED
• CHAPTER XI. DISINFECTION
• CHAPTER XII. HOUSING AND TOWN-PLANNING
• CHAPTER XIII. PERSONAL HYGIENE
• CHAPTR XIV. SCHOOL HYGIENE
• CHAPTER XV. CLIMATE AND METEOROLOGY
• CHAPTER XVI. VITAL STATISTICS
• CHAPTER XVII. SANITARY LAW
• CHAPTER XVIII. CONTAINING SECTIONS 237 το 295 DEALS WITH MARKETS, SLAUGHTER-HOUSES, SALE OF FOOD, PUBLIC SAFETY, SANITATION AND PREVENTION OF DESEASE, ETC
• APPENDIX I: USEFUL DATA
• APPENDIX II: LOGARITHMS
• Appendix III: Type design of incinerators
• APPENDIX IV: Standard of appliances in towns with water-borne system
• APPENDIX V: TWENTY SEATED LATRINE
• APPENDIX VI: THE STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS, UNITED PROVINCES, INDIA
• INDEX