Abstract
"In this work the Public Health Engineer should not be confused with the Sanitary Engineer as the term is commonly used today. The Sanitary Engineer is primarily a designer or builder. He is, in fact, a civil and hydraulic engineer specializing in a rather restricted field, confined for the most part to works relating to municipal water supply and sewage. The Public Health Engineer on the other hand is primarily a student and worker in the field of public health. The range of his activities is wider, and his training and knowledge are of essentially different character. It is not so important that he know how to build a sewer as that he know why sewers are necessary and what results may be anticipated from the discharge of their contents without treatment into a body of water. Trained to think with the clearness and acuracy [sic] of an engineer, he employs as his material the data of physics, chemistry, and biology which underlie the present-day practice of public health"--Introduction, page 7-8.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Degree Name
Professional Degree in Civil Engineering
Publisher
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
Publication Date
1932
Pagination
42 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes index (page 42).
Rights
© 1932 Walter Eric Casey, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
Public health -- United StatesSanitary engineering -- Methodology
Thesis Number
T 603
Print OCLC #
5963229
Electronic OCLC #
660156258
Recommended Citation
Casey, Walter Eric, "The public health engineer's part on a health program" (1932). Professional Degree Theses. 216.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/professional_theses/216