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Handbook of Sanitary Law
PUBLIC HEALTH deals with the subject in a general way, giving brief r&um~s of experiences and practices provided by various districts to illustrate the points made. Useful chapters are included on refuse and heat, the design and arrangement of plant to meet general and special requirements, refuse separation, and incineration. Accounting, costing and statistical records are dealt with in an appendix. The book is well documented and well produced. It will provide a useful work of reference for all concerned in the many problems involved in the disposal by incineration of house and similar refuse in bulk.
JANUARY this handbook in 1899--justifiably claims in his preface that, notwithstanding the amount of new legislation which is now dealt with, the book is still rightly described as a " handbook" of a size that easily fits the pocket. Indeed its production and printing are very clear and the index is most adequate. Wewish the Handbook continued life and usefulness.
Gas, A Synopsis of Delenoo Against. By John Fenton, M.B., D.P.H. 8rd edition. 1988. London: Dale, Reynolds & Co. pp. 60. Price ls. The author of this little handbook, who is Deputy M.O.H. for Eastbourne, wrote his first edition early in A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health : with special 1987, and the fact that a third edition has already been reference to the Tropics. By B. N. Ghosh, M.B.E., called for is a testimonial to the clearness of his summary F.a.F.P. &S.(CLaSO.). 9thedition. 1988. Calcutta: of the poisonous: gases which might be encountered in Scientific Publishing Co. pp. 720 + xvi. Price war and the measures of treatment and protection to 15s. net. be taken against them. We believe this booklet has been widely used in the teaching of personnel by St. John Dr. Ghosh's " Treatise " has long ago attained the status of a standard textbook for Indian public health Ambulance and other organisations ; and in this latest workers, or indeed for any whose work lies in Eastern edition the sections as to first-aid posts, decontamination, tropical countries. From its birth 25 years ago, it has and anti-gas clothing have been revised and brought grown in comprehensiveness from edition to edition and into full accord with official instructions. the present one, which supersedes the eighth of three years ago, is justified both by the amount of new Lewis's Medical and Scientific Library Catalogue. Part I.--Authors and Titles. 1988. London: material and the demand for the book. The author's H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. pp. viii + 550. Price coadjutors include Sir John Megaw, formerly Director16s. net. (To subscribers 6s.) General, I.M.S., who has re-written his sections on Lewis's Lending Library is an institution which needs some of the common iiafections of India; Dr. Jean Orkney, who has revised the M. & C.W. chapter; no introduction after the generations of service it has Lt.-Col. Berkeley Hill and Mr. H. P. Maiti, who have given to medical students both before and after graduacontributed chapters on mental hygiene and mental tion, since its foundation 90 years ago. The present disorders ; and Dr. H. E. C. Wilson, who has revised catalogue includes about 20,000 titles and runs to 550 pages as compared with 408 in the last edition. Apart the section dealing with food and diet in India. from its indispensable value to regular subscribers to Dr. Ghosh himself is responsible for the more environmental side, which again is brought right up-to- the library, this catalogue (and the companion volume, date by such descriptions as that of the " decentralisa- the classified index of subjects and authors, which will be ready early in 1989) will be of great service to t i o n " method of water-storage in Bengal. One notes a few omissions, such as that of a reference librarians and editors of medical and scientific periodicals in the " Plague" chapter to the International Sanitary for the verification of references. Convention as to rat-guards and rat-proofing of ships, but one is diffident to criticise the small defects in a book which is, on the whole, as full and accurate a KEEPING YOUR "PUBLIC HEALTHS" FOR guide to public health theory and practice as the Indian REFERENCE student or health executive could ask for. We halve an announcement for those of our readers-we hope they are many--who wish to preserve their Handbook Ot 8anflary Law for the use of candidates for Public Health Qualifications. By B. BURNETT copies of PUBLIC HmLTH for permanent binding, or at HAM, M.D., D.P.H. (CAMB.). 12th edition, 1988. least for reference purposes during the year. We now have available a supply of " Easibind " London: H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. pp. xxii + holders, which provide a means of temporarily binding 856. Price 7s. 6d. net. copies of the journal from month to month until the One is surprised to note that this, the 12th edition of volume of twelve numbers is complete. The copies are " Burnett Ham," follows its predecessor by seven years, firmly held by the insertion of flexible wire rods into for one has come to regard this handbook as one of the slots at the top and bottom of the holder, and the pages most convenient and well-arranged reference books, can be turned over exactly as if they were in a permanent especially for the student who is trying to find his way binding. The holder itself is of stout board and should amongst the tangles of public health legislation. The be good for many years' wear. Any one copy can be years since 198t have seen the addition of many import- quickly removed from the holder and as quickly replaced. The price of the " Easibind" holder to our readers is ant statutes, and the new " Burnett H a m " includes everything up to the Food and Drugs Act of this" year 4s. post free. Orders (enclosing cheque or postal order and the relevant Regulations and Orders. The author, made payable to the Society of M.O.H.) should be who has been personally responsible for the last three addressed to the Executive Secretary, at 1, Thornhaugh editions--a proud record considering that he first wrote Street, London, W.C.t. 126
JANUARY this handbook in 1899--justifiably claims in his preface that, notwithstanding the amount of new legislation which is now dealt with, the book is still rightly described as a " handbook" of a size that easily fits the pocket. Indeed its production and printing are very clear and the index is most adequate. Wewish the Handbook continued life and usefulness.
Gas, A Synopsis of Delenoo Against. By John Fenton, M.B., D.P.H. 8rd edition. 1988. London: Dale, Reynolds & Co. pp. 60. Price ls. The author of this little handbook, who is Deputy M.O.H. for Eastbourne, wrote his first edition early in A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health : with special 1987, and the fact that a third edition has already been reference to the Tropics. By B. N. Ghosh, M.B.E., called for is a testimonial to the clearness of his summary F.a.F.P. &S.(CLaSO.). 9thedition. 1988. Calcutta: of the poisonous: gases which might be encountered in Scientific Publishing Co. pp. 720 + xvi. Price war and the measures of treatment and protection to 15s. net. be taken against them. We believe this booklet has been widely used in the teaching of personnel by St. John Dr. Ghosh's " Treatise " has long ago attained the status of a standard textbook for Indian public health Ambulance and other organisations ; and in this latest workers, or indeed for any whose work lies in Eastern edition the sections as to first-aid posts, decontamination, tropical countries. From its birth 25 years ago, it has and anti-gas clothing have been revised and brought grown in comprehensiveness from edition to edition and into full accord with official instructions. the present one, which supersedes the eighth of three years ago, is justified both by the amount of new Lewis's Medical and Scientific Library Catalogue. Part I.--Authors and Titles. 1988. London: material and the demand for the book. The author's H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. pp. viii + 550. Price coadjutors include Sir John Megaw, formerly Director16s. net. (To subscribers 6s.) General, I.M.S., who has re-written his sections on Lewis's Lending Library is an institution which needs some of the common iiafections of India; Dr. Jean Orkney, who has revised the M. & C.W. chapter; no introduction after the generations of service it has Lt.-Col. Berkeley Hill and Mr. H. P. Maiti, who have given to medical students both before and after graduacontributed chapters on mental hygiene and mental tion, since its foundation 90 years ago. The present disorders ; and Dr. H. E. C. Wilson, who has revised catalogue includes about 20,000 titles and runs to 550 pages as compared with 408 in the last edition. Apart the section dealing with food and diet in India. from its indispensable value to regular subscribers to Dr. Ghosh himself is responsible for the more environmental side, which again is brought right up-to- the library, this catalogue (and the companion volume, date by such descriptions as that of the " decentralisa- the classified index of subjects and authors, which will be ready early in 1989) will be of great service to t i o n " method of water-storage in Bengal. One notes a few omissions, such as that of a reference librarians and editors of medical and scientific periodicals in the " Plague" chapter to the International Sanitary for the verification of references. Convention as to rat-guards and rat-proofing of ships, but one is diffident to criticise the small defects in a book which is, on the whole, as full and accurate a KEEPING YOUR "PUBLIC HEALTHS" FOR guide to public health theory and practice as the Indian REFERENCE student or health executive could ask for. We halve an announcement for those of our readers-we hope they are many--who wish to preserve their Handbook Ot 8anflary Law for the use of candidates for Public Health Qualifications. By B. BURNETT copies of PUBLIC HmLTH for permanent binding, or at HAM, M.D., D.P.H. (CAMB.). 12th edition, 1988. least for reference purposes during the year. We now have available a supply of " Easibind " London: H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. pp. xxii + holders, which provide a means of temporarily binding 856. Price 7s. 6d. net. copies of the journal from month to month until the One is surprised to note that this, the 12th edition of volume of twelve numbers is complete. The copies are " Burnett Ham," follows its predecessor by seven years, firmly held by the insertion of flexible wire rods into for one has come to regard this handbook as one of the slots at the top and bottom of the holder, and the pages most convenient and well-arranged reference books, can be turned over exactly as if they were in a permanent especially for the student who is trying to find his way binding. The holder itself is of stout board and should amongst the tangles of public health legislation. The be good for many years' wear. Any one copy can be years since 198t have seen the addition of many import- quickly removed from the holder and as quickly replaced. The price of the " Easibind" holder to our readers is ant statutes, and the new " Burnett H a m " includes everything up to the Food and Drugs Act of this" year 4s. post free. Orders (enclosing cheque or postal order and the relevant Regulations and Orders. The author, made payable to the Society of M.O.H.) should be who has been personally responsible for the last three addressed to the Executive Secretary, at 1, Thornhaugh editions--a proud record considering that he first wrote Street, London, W.C.t. 126