Environmental Pollution: Discharge of Raw Human Wastes from Railroad Trains: Hearing Before...91-2, July 28, 19701970 - 139 pages |
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... effects , and the means of remedying such practices , In the judgment of the Food and Drug Administration , it is neither necessary nor acceptable that this human waste should appear on land proximate to , and , in many instances ...
... effects , and the means of remedying such practices , In the judgment of the Food and Drug Administration , it is neither necessary nor acceptable that this human waste should appear on land proximate to , and , in many instances ...
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... effect some correction . Mr. REUSS . Is it not also specifically a situation which can lead to the introduction , transmission , or spread of communicable disease from State to State ? Dr. KOLBYE . Potentially , yes . Mr. REUSS ...
... effect some correction . Mr. REUSS . Is it not also specifically a situation which can lead to the introduction , transmission , or spread of communicable disease from State to State ? Dr. KOLBYE . Potentially , yes . Mr. REUSS ...
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... effect of new Public Health Service regulations . This expenditure would permit the purchase and installation of retention type buckets with appropriate chemicals in the tank . Disposal would then be accomplished when the trains are at ...
... effect of new Public Health Service regulations . This expenditure would permit the purchase and installation of retention type buckets with appropriate chemicals in the tank . Disposal would then be accomplished when the trains are at ...
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... Effects of Human Wastes From Passenger - Carrying Cars on Railroad Rights - of - Way " ( 1950 ) . 4. The cost of installing nonpolluting toilets is minimal . Figures on five types of recirculating toilets are $ 110 for a manually ...
... Effects of Human Wastes From Passenger - Carrying Cars on Railroad Rights - of - Way " ( 1950 ) . 4. The cost of installing nonpolluting toilets is minimal . Figures on five types of recirculating toilets are $ 110 for a manually ...
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... effects , and the means of rem- edying such practice . The subcommittee would very much appreciate your professional views on the following matters : How and to what extent does the discharge of raw human wastes from rail- road cars ( a ) ...
... effects , and the means of rem- edying such practice . The subcommittee would very much appreciate your professional views on the following matters : How and to what extent does the discharge of raw human wastes from rail- road cars ( a ) ...
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American Railroads and/or letter directed Association of American BLANKENSHIP Chairman chemical toilet class I railroads COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT commuter cars Company notified Conservation and Natural contamination conveyances copy of inspection correct condition cost of installing D.C. DEAR discharge of wastes Drug Administration dumping EDWARDS estimate feces flush Food and Drug freight gallons GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS HENRY holding tank Human feces human waste disposal incinerating Incinolet infection inspection report and/or intercity passenger cars January 19 July 28 KOLBYE Litton Industries locomotives and cabooses MANION manufacturers Metroliner million Monogram Industries NADER Natural Resources Subcommittee notified of violation practice Public Health Service railroad cars railroad industry railway sanitation Ralph Nader raw human waste recirculating report and/or letter REUSS right-of-way rights-of-way sanitary servicing areas sewage sleeping cars statement station toilet facilities toilet systems tracks treatment typhoid fever untreated human wastes VANDER JAGT Washington waste disposal systems wastes from railroad
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Page 2 - Secretary is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession.
Page 81 - If a watering point has not been approved, the Surgeon General may permit its temporary use under such conditions as, in his judgment, are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases.
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Page 62 - I believe that in the well-drained, but cool and moist soil under the ties and ballast of a modern railway roadbed baptized day after day and year after year with the albuminous fluids of human excrement, the bacillus typhosus once planted in this natural culture medium, will lie forever, revitalized by new infection, perhaps, but in the meantime facultative enough to meet seasonal and other changes and remain potent.
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Page 3 - It can, therefore, be stated with reasonable assurance that information at present available fails to establish the existence of a public health menace resulting from the method of disposal of fecal wastes employed by railways, This by no means proves the negative — that such a menace does not exist.
Page 41 - I think that one of the reasons for that is that the figures they looked at in the first place were not quite realistic from this standpoint.
Page 18 - Bacteriological Studies of the Effects of Human Wastes From Passenger-Carrying Cars on Railroad Rights-of-Way