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Sanitary inspection, water quality determination and data analysis and interpretation are essential elements in characterising the microbiological safety of water in recreational areas. Sanitary inspection is a necessary adjunct to water microbiological analysis. A well-conducted sanitary inspection can identify sources of microbiological hazards, microbiological water quality data confirm the ...

municipal solid waste management (mswm) has become the greatest problem facing many urban and semi-urban areas in nigeria, although to varying degrees. this study suggests the various steps and approaches to combat the menace in akure in the southwest zone of nigeria. such approaches include creation of special agencies for the collection, recycling and conversion of municipal solid waste (msw)...

In an attempt to depict the nutritional status of Kurdish refugee children under five years of age. a rapid survey was conducted on 900 children in 9 camps of Kurdistan and Bakhtaran province in May 1991. The study included anthropometric measurements on all. clinical examination of 731, and biochemical tests for anemia and protein energy malnutrition (PEM) on 160 subjects. The results sho...

Little attention lias hitherto been paid to the ital Statistics" of the vast civil population of India. While the European and Native Armies, the jails, hospitals, and asylums of all kinds, have for years possessed a sanitary historian and statistician in the persons of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India and his Statistical Officer, the civil community, represented by millio...

In rural sections the situation is differed j The means of raising revenue are often unsatisfactory; the distances to be traversed are Srea, ' communications are frequently bad; and_ th general educational, financial and sanitary levels are low. On the other hand, rural area contain the greatest number of people an^ fe they are the main sources of wealth of world, their sanitary environmental c...