Researchers from many disciplines have identifi ed new forms of health and welfare services emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attention has focused on the growth of direct provision by the local and national state, and new relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors. The literature describes an important transition from the general workhouse to more specialist in...

This paper reports a study regarding households’ willingness to pay for private sector solid waste management services. The data originated from a contingent valuation survey conducted in 224 households in Ilorin in southwest Nigeria and was analysed using tobit and censored least absolute deviations models. The use of a robust and consistent estimator to model zero willingness to pay responses...

In the minutes of Proceedings of the Sanitary Commissioner for Madras for the second quarter of 1895 are published the precautionary measures to be adopted for prevention of cholera and the procedure necessary for preventing the disease spreading at Bellary. 1. The town will be divided into circles, each of which will be allotted to a medical subordinate. 2. Under each subordinate will be place...

BACKGROUND The data collected by sanitary-epidemiological stations in 2005-2014 were analyzed to determine the incidence rates of borreliosis Lyme disease in the West Pomerania group of workers exposed to tick bites. MATERIAL AND METHODS It was assumed that an adequate comparison of official epidemiological data with the data concerning the number of exposed people, is an indispensable condit...

Head again the correspondence with Her Majesty's Secretary Military (Separate), to Secretary Of State, noted on the marof State, Ho. 121, dated 2ud Juiie, gin, regarding the establishl5pJblic?From Secretary of State, mc,,tofa B?atce? for "l? No. 40, dated 30tli April, 1867. supervision ot tllO public Public?To Secretary of 8tate, health throughout India, No. loJ, dated 10th August, 18C7. ant^ t...

In an economy where corruption is pervasive, how should tax inspectors be compensated? The optimal compensation scheme must take into account the strategic interaction between taxpayers and tax inspectors. Pure “tax farming” (paying tax inspectors a share of their tax collections) is optimal only when all tax inspectors are corruptible. When there are both honest and corruptible inspectors, the...