Sanitary Engineering Activities of the Sanitary Corps, United States Army

Medical Research and Sanitary Engineering

The Army Sanitary Commission on Typhoid Fever in India

last. At the same time a report by Surgeon-General J. Kerr-Innes on the prevalence and causation of typhoid fever among European troops in the Bengal Command in 1876 was submitted for review, and the Commission deliberated on both documents simultaneously, and submitted to the Secretary of State for India a memorandum containing the result of their deliberations. The memorandum does not advance...

Decision Support System for Sanitary Teams Activities

This paper describes the information system that has been built for the support of sanitary teams. The system is aimed at supporting analytical work which must be carried out when there is a risk of an epidemic outbreak. It is meant to provide tools for predicting the size of an epidemic on the basis of the actual data collected during its course. Since sanitary teams try to control the size of...

Doctoral Program in Sanitary - Environmental Engineering

Introduction “Although many people are concerned about the status of the environment, environmental engineers are the technical professionals who provide safe drinking water, treat and properly dispose of wastes, maintain air quality, control water pollution, and remediate sites contaminated due to spills of improper disposal of hazardous substances. They monitor the quality of the air, water, ...

The Influence of Sanitary Engineering on Public Health.

FIFTY years ago sanitary engineering in this country scarcely existed, even in name. The larger cities were provided with public water supplies and there was a general desire among sanitarians to supply water free from filth. Sewers in combination with storm water drains.had been built in the larger communities to a limited extent for several decades. Some of the more progressive engineers were...