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- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © by the American Public Health Association
- ISSN
- 0090-0036
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- 1541-0048
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Abstract
Public Engineering Activity * Sanitation as a CHARLES L. POOL, F.A.P.H.A. Sanitary Engineer and Chemist, State Department of Public Health, Providence, R. L THE Committee on Industrial Hygiene of the Conference of State Sanitary Engineers in 1932 canvassed their membership to learn the status of work in industrial hygiene done by the various states. From the data condensed into their report 1 and from subsequent inquiries it is evident that the engineering branch of industrial hygiene, which we are calling industrial sanitation, could almost be appropriately described as a public health engineering inactivity. " Industrial sanitation " is intended to mean primarily the measurement and control of environmental conditions of atmosphere, illumination, and protection against toxic or devitalizing exposures, and not primarily the sanitary engineering specialties of water supply and disposal of wastes as applied to industry. Connecticut has perhaps the only state department of health in which industrial sanitation is beginning to be tions for the 4 states having separate bureaus or divisions of industrial hygiene. At that time the Connecticut bureau had an appropriation twice as great as that for any of the other 3 states, and it has since made an addition to the personnel
Journal
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: Jun 1, 1936