Sanitation & Sanitary Engineering Quotes
The highest court in New York.
Manava Dharma Shastra. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired. This is one of the earlier prescriptions to maintain public health.
He and the Fascist Italian government were very proud of this accomplishment which to them justified all the abuse, exploitation and denial of human rights that was inherent in Italian Colonialism then. The Fascists accomplished some worthy goals of governing like this one. American fascist admirers, of which there were many, pointed to these accomplishments in trying to persuade public opinion to adopt more right wing programs and measures.
There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
This was the first hamburger chain in America. Prior to that hamburgers were associated with greasy, unclean restaurants. Ingram stressed cleanliness and sanitation. Staff were all dressed in white and not even allowed to wear a wristwatch, cleaning was constant. Each facility was painted white on the inside and outside so that the least speck of dirt or grease would be visible. Even the outside was washed every day. He demonstrated that a restaurant could be clean and a new standard for consumers and public health was set in America. Ironically almost a hundred years later the health of hamburgers themselves would be brought into question, but for the cleanliness issue which by then had become standard in most states and communities, but for the cholesterol content of the meat.
The Ministry of Health had conducted inspections of Lebanese Restaurants, rarely done in the past, and found many with traces of human and animal feces in the food. Typically bribes would be paid to the inspectors but a new reform minister made honest inspections a high priority. Then when he made the results public and newspapers like this carried the message, most of the other government ministers were very upset as it held the country up to ridicule and greatly threatened the international reputation of the country for the finest food in the Middle East, and might further harm the Tourist business which their self-inflicted civil war had already damaged in the latter part of the 20th century and by the militarized standoff that had evolved since. See {642413} for the Health Minister’s statement triggering this headline.
It was common then for people to die in tenements as a result of shoddy construction, poisoning by sewer gas, and unsanitary conditions. As the result of the efforts of reformers like Riis and Theodore Roosevelt health inspectors were appointed and errant builders went to jail—in some cases for manslaughter.
This is an invaluable historical quotation showing urban housing conditions in the 1920s.
This was a new idea for most Americans at the time. A century later, there were still a few politicians who did not accept this idea.
The South has always been backward compared to the rest of the nation. By the 21st century the gap had gotten narrower. However, one of the reasons that Mrs. Roosevelt was unpopular with the Southern whites was not only that she was an outspoken critic of segregation and associated with Negroes, but she would publically point out the areas of Southern backwardness. However, the upper and middle class Southerners resented anyone—especially “outsiders” publicly exposing Southern weakness.
Freedom Industries, which makes chemicals for the mining industry, polluted the water supply of the entire 9 county region in WV when the 40,000 gallon tank that was supposedly safe as a holding tank for dangerous chemicals gave way and the chemicals were not then stopped or contained as they were supposed to have been by the containment grading and landscaping. The chemicals flowed down hill to the river which in turn polluted the entire water supply of Charleston, West Virginia and the 9 surrounding counties.
