Nutrition and Human Needs--1970: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - Broj stranica: 2275
 

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Stranica 1181 - The Surgeon General shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution of lakes and...
Stranica 1183 - SMSA is a county or group of contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000.
Stranica 1289 - A cross-connection is any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other water of unknown or questionable safety, whereby water may flow from one system to the other, the direction of flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems.
Stranica 1183 - ... twin cities* with a combined population of at least 50,000. In addition to the county, or counties, containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are essentially metropolitan in character and are socially and economically integrated with the central city.
Stranica 908 - ... breathing from the cesspool and the sewer; so destitute that they can buy no water— that milk and bread must be impoverished to meet their means of purchase, that the drugs sold them for sickness must be rubbish or poison: surely no civilized community dare avert itself from the care of this abject orphanage. If such...
Stranica 907 - I would beg any educated person to consider what are the conditions in which alone animal life can thrive ; to learn, by personal inspection, how far these conditions are realized for the masses of our population ; and to form for himself a conscientious judgment as to the need for great, if even almost revolutionary, reforms.
Stranica 1157 - Our water resources, more perhaps than any other, illustrate the interaction of all parts of the environment, and also the recycling process that characterizes every resource of the biosphere. Everything that man injects into his environment...
Stranica 1157 - Everything that man himself injects into the biosphere— chemical, biological or physical— can ultimately find its way into the earth's water. And these contaminants must be removed, by nature or by man, before that water is again potable.
Stranica 907 - Contemplating such cases, I feel the deepest conviction that no sanitary system can be adequate to the requirements of the time, or can cure those radical evils which infest the under-framework of society, unless the importance be distinctly recognized, and the duty manfully undertaken, of improving the social condition of the poor.
Stranica 1157 - The 1970's absolutely must be the years when America pays Its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.