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Jan 1925
Sanitation—Its Relation to Health and Life
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In an able address before the Sanitary Engineering Division of the Society on January 16, 1923, Harrison P. Eddy, M. Am. Soc. C. E., described the present ·status of sanitary engineering and outlined its scopes and activities. The speaker wishes to present an even more fundamental aspect of sanitation, namely, its relation to health and life.
The subject cannot be discussed logically without first considering some of the words commonly used in connection with it. What is meant by health. This word comes from the old Anglo-Saxon word, “haelth”. There are several allied words, such as “hale”, “whole”, “wholesome”, and “holy”. This idea of wholeness seems to be fundamentally involved. Health applies to the whole body. The common expression, “all right”, gives the proper idea. Health is bodily “all rightness”.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 88 • Issue 1 • January 1925
Pages: 0087 - 0100
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© 1925 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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George C. Whipple, M.ASCE
Cons. Engr.; Prof. of San. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. Professor Whipple died on November 27, 1924.
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