Sanitation Practices and Vector Control at National Boy Scout Jamborees

Food Manufacturing Practices and Sanitation

Boy Scout 5-a-Day Badge: outcome results of a troop and Internet intervention.

OBJECTIVES The effects of a Boy Scout Five-A-Day Badge program on fruit juice (FJ) and low-fat vegetable (LV) consumption were evaluated using a two-condition (treatment, active-attention-placebo-control) group randomized trial, with three data collection periods (baseline, immediate post, 6-month post). METHODS Forty-two Boy Scout troops (n=473, 10- to 14-year-old Scouts) in Houston, TX, wer...

Water handling, sanitation and defecation practices in rural southern India: a knowledge, attitudes and practices study.

Diarrhoea and water-borne diseases are leading causes of mortality in developing countries. To understand the socio-cultural factors impacting on water safety, we documented knowledge, attitudes and practices of water handling and usage, sanitation and defecation in rural Tamilnadu, India, using questionnaires and focus group discussions, in a village divided into an upper caste Main village an...

The Last Boy Scout: Eliot Ness’ Tenure as Cleveland, Ohio’s Public Safety Director

Following the success and subsequent notoriety of Eliot Ness as a Prohibition agent in Chicago, Cleveland Mayor Harold Burton appointed Ness Director of Public Safety in December 1935. During this era, the Cleveland Department of Public Safety, particularly the police division, was considered to be one of the most corrupt in America. Burton, elected on a law-and-order platform, had sworn to rid...

Human excreta and sanitation: Control and protection