ABSTRACT

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in tropical and developing countries, and the effective measures that may be used against them. 

The infections described include the diarrhoeal diseases, the common gut worms, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis, malaria, Bancroftian filariasis and other mosquito-borne infections. The environmental interventions that receive most attention are domestic water supplies and improved excreta disposal. Appropriate technology for these interventions, and also their impact on infectious diseases, are documented in detail. 

This third edition includes new sections on arsenic in groundwater supplies and arsenic removal technologies, and new material in most chapters, including water supplies in developing countries and surface water drainage.

part I|2 pages

Health and pollution

chapter 1|24 pages

Engineering and infectious disease

chapter 2|9 pages

Health and water chemistry

chapter 3|23 pages

Water quality and standards

part II|2 pages

Water supply

chapter 5|29 pages

Rural water supply

chapter 6|23 pages

Urban water supply and water treatment

part III|2 pages

Excreta and refuse

chapter 8|38 pages

Types of excreta disposal system

chapter 9|22 pages

Planning a sanitation programme

chapter 10|17 pages

Wastewater treatment

chapter 11|11 pages

Surface water drainage

chapter 12|9 pages

Solid waste management

chapter 13|9 pages

Composting

chapter 14|12 pages

Health aspects of waste use

part IV|2 pages

Environmental modifications and vector-borne diseases

chapter 15|26 pages

Engineering control of insect-borne diseases

chapter 16|13 pages

Dams, irrigation and health

chapter 17|21 pages

Schistosomiasis