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...

MANUAL FOR SANITARY INSPECTORS AND OTHER EXECUTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS. ?By H. H. Clay, F.R.San.I., F.I.S.E. With an Introduction by W. W. Jameson, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H. (Lond.), etc. Second Edition. 1936. H. K. Lewis and Company, Limited, London. Pp. xxli plus 432, with 95 Illustrations. Price, 15s. This book is divided into 31 well selected chapters (with 95 illustrations) covering ...

The Association began life in 1896 when a small group of women, employed as sanitary inspectors in London public health departments, decided to meet informally to discuss common problems and issues of current interest. This small discussion group, then known as "The Women Sanitary Inspectors' Association", has gone on during the course of the twentieth century to extend its membership widely in...

on its production. The first part consists in an enumeration of the duties of a Sanitary Inspector and an explanation of each duty. Part II is entitled " Sanitary Facts " and explains what is meant by night-soil, urine, rubbish, cesspools and open drains. Then comes a short description of various diseases as plague, t}'phoid, small-pox, etc. Part III gives a short account of the characters of g...

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)...