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news Calls for post-Covid revolution in ventilation © Getty Images Dozens of the worlds top experts in how diseases spread have called for big improvements to the air in buildings. They say current rules on ventilation are failing to stop infections, including Covid-19. The problem is likened to the health crisis caused by contaminated water in Britains cities in the 1800s. The appeal comes amid growing evidence that the coronavirus is often transmitted via infectious aerosols in crowded ind...

Tales revealed at Stirling Old Town Jail HE had a reputation as Reformer and more than a century before the very idea of a health service free at the point of service became a reality, one medical officer had a similar belief and notion. The role of prison doctor William Forrest was instrumental in saving lives during an outbreak of cholera in Stirling linked to the water supply. Before he was appointed as Medical Officer of the New County Jail, Dr Forrests methods were being noticed - a ...

Comment Inlet to Tunnel, Loch Katrine; Thomas Annan (1829 - 1887); Glasgow, Scotland; negative 1876; print 1877; Albumen silver print. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ARE you in the game for large-scale responses to environmental public health disasters? Ones that may take us into the middle of the following century and still be functional and essential? For a start, try the Katrine Aqueduct. Happy, hard-hatted engineers from Scottish Water were glorying this...

For city dwellers who cannot get out to the countryside, one solution is to bring the countryside into the city. In the first-century AD, the Roman poet Martial coined the phrase rus in urbe, in envious admiration of his rich friend Sparsus’s city villa, secluded and free from the constant roar of urban life. As city populations have grown, so has the need for ‘countryside in the city’ and its benefits. Different eras have offered similar solutions. In his pamphlet Fumifugium (1661), Jo...

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For all of the campaign and inauguration talk about “unity” and moderation, President Joe Biden is governing like a progressive on all fronts, from cultural issues to the armed forces to the economy.

For all of the campaign and inauguration talk about “unity” and moderation, President Joe Biden is governing like a progressive on all fronts, from cultural issues to the armed forces to the economy. Biden’s unprecedented thirty-two executive orders his first week in office provide evidence he and his party intend to expand executive governance well beyond anything this country has seen in its long history. Furthermore, all his political appointments are people who fall well to the left o...