Open AccessPUBLIC HEALTH WORK IN INDIA
Author(s) -
Harry N. Jenks
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.9.11.838
Subject(s) - sanitation , public health , work (physics) , environmental health , plan (archaeology) , communicable disease , medicine , preventive healthcare , geography , engineering , nursing , pathology , archaeology , mechanical engineering
Many endemic centres of communicable disease lie in the Orient and therefore the future fight of preventive medicine must be largely in Eastern countries. Mr. Jenks, with some years of experience in Hindustan as sanitary engineer, outlines racial conditions that are fundamental. They must be recognized in any plan for bettered sanitation.