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news Calls for post-Covid 'revolution' in ventilation © Getty Images Dozens of the world's 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 Britain's cities in the 1800s. The appeal comes amid growing evidence that the coronavirus is often transmitted via infectious aerosols in crowded indoor spaces. Writing in the journal Science, the scientists and engineers say that while governme...

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 Forrest's methods were being noticed - a hero to some, and a villain to the others. His work and legacy have emerged in recently revealed ...

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 week in their refurbishment and upgrade of this mighty 160-year-old construction, officially opened...

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), John Evelyn proposed making hedged plantations of ‘fragrant Shrubs, Trees, and Flowers’, which wou...

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