Revised "Standard for School Environment and Hygiene".

School Hygiene

an acknowledged authority, therefore, upon the correlated sciences included under the term which serves as title for his manual, "School Hygiene." His treatment of this very complicated body of fact is simple and untechnical. He says that his book is "not written for the specialist in school hygiene, but for busy teachers, and the author hopes that it will do some small service in convincing th...

Standard Environment For The

Background and Rationale for School Sanitation and Hygiene Education

At the eve of the new Millennium, despite all the progress reported world-wide in recent decades, more than 2,3 billion people still live without access to sanitation facilities and are unable to practise such basic hygiene as washing their hands with soap and water. Diseases related to poor sanitation and water availability cause many people to fall ill or even die. Children are the most vulne...

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Director of the School is Dr. Andrew Balfour,, C B., C.M.G., and an article on the scope of the work of the School, which is not yet built, appeared in our last issue. Mr. Harris has been for the past two years a regular contributor to the Hospital and Health Review. Mr. R. W. Harris, who retired from the office of Assistant Secretary in the M...

De-worming school children and hygiene intervention.

Helminths or worm infestations refer to worms that live as parasites in the human body and are a fundamental cause of disease associated with health and nutrition problems beyond gastrointestinal tract disturbances. Globally, over 3.5 billion people are infected with intestinal worms, of which 1.47 billion are with roundworm, 1.3 billion people with hookworm and 1.05 billion with whipworm. Scho...