The relatively new Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) proffers a new force to bring attention to the need for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education for those working in public health. The workforce of federal, state, and local health departments in the United States comprises more than 450,000 individuals representing a wide variety of disciplines, from nurses to sanitary engi...

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...

been received from Dr. Egeling, the Chief Inspector of Health for the Province of South Holland, wo learn that the city of Rotterdam is about to obtain a supply of water from the Maas, which is to be filtered through sand and gravel prior to its delivery for consumption. This will be a great boon to the city, considering its present position in that respect; but the authorities would do wisely ...

We gladly renew acquaintance in this second edition of Sir John Simon's English Sanitary Institutions with this fascinating and instructive history of human sanitary endeavour. The successful writer on matters of universal history must be a man of wide knowledge and of broad mind, able to sift and choose, to prune and criticise, and to weave the disconnected threads of record and tradition into...

1. This service should be on an equal footing with the Provincial Medical Service, i.e., the health officers should be gazetted officers and should enjoy all the rights and privileges of a Government servant as regards leave, pension, &c. 2. The health officers should be absolutely independent of the Municipal Commissioners and should be vested with both administrative and executive powers. The...

Sir,?In your issue of 12th September 1904, under the heading of "Reviews," you notice a new Medical Journal published in Madras, and repeat unwittingly a very gross misstatement in the leading article of its first issue, which is likely to damage the status of a hard-working body of men in this Presidency, known as Certificated Sanitary Inspectors? and not 0. S. I.'s as the author, with stale a...