Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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SANITARY ENGINEERING Instruction and research insanitary Engineering were established at Harvard in 1911 with the appointment of George Chandler Whipple, who with Professor Sedgwick of M. I. T. and Dr. Rosenau of Harvard created the first School of Public Health in America in 1913. Since the founding of our present school in 1922, the Department has provided necessary instruction in environmental sanitation. MOORE, fair, chang The Department has trained many leaders in sanitary engineering through¬ out the world and has produced the majority of teachers of sanitary en¬ gineering in this country. Cur rent researches include the chemistry and biology of disinfection, the effectiveness of filtration, the behavior of radioactive substances in natural bodies of water, the physical chem¬ istry of ion exchange, and the polarographic analysis of waste waters. TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH Tropical diseases and their control have been taught for many years at Harvard with such distinguished specialists as Strong, Tyzzer, Shattuck and Sellards on the Faculty. In 1949 the teaching of these subjects was reorganized and a new Department of Tropical Public Health was created in the School of Public Health. The program now includes a considera¬ tion of public health problems in tropical areas related to climatic and social-economic factors, as well as those directly caused by infectious agents. At present seven voluntary courses are offered. Research activities are varied and include work in depart¬ mental laboratories and field stations as well as health surveys in various tropical countries. Subjects under investigation include malaria, yaws, amoebiasis. relapsing fever, polio¬ myelitis, leprosy and helminth in¬ fections . GE1MAN. SOPER. AUGUSTINE. MAY, WELLER -15-

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STUDENTS