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and JOHN OBERWAGER, M.D., F.A.P.H.A. Director, Sanitary Bureau, Department of Health, New York, N. Y. THE exterminator of today must have a knowledge of entomology, chemistry and sanitation. The physician and the engineer must accept the responsibility of training exterminators and fumigators for the proper performance of the health work in which they are engaged. SUPERVISION IN NEW YORK CITY The Sanitary Code of the city defines a fumigant as any substance which by itself or in combination with any other substance emits or liberates gas, fumes, or vapors, and which gas, fumes, *Read before the Public Health Engineering Sec- or vapors when liberated and used for tion of the American Public Health Association at the destruction atnd control of insects, the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting in New York, N. Y., vermin, rodents, or other pests, are October 7, 1937. [633] Supervision of fumigation has become a public health problem in all large cities because of two facts: the greatly increased use in the past few years of toxic gases for the destruction of insects, vermin, and rodents; and -the large number of individuals, partnerships, and corporations now engaged in the business of exterminating such pests. In New York
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: May 1, 1938
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