New Wellcome Witnesses publication: 'The Development of Waste Management in the UK c.1960–c.2000'
A new volume of Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary
Medicine is freely available to download at the History of Modern
Biomedicine Research Group website:
The Development of Waste Management in the UK c.1960–c.2000
The maintenance of public health relies on
effective management of domestic and industrial waste. Waste management
is therefore implicitly an issue of concern to all.
A Witness Seminar on developments in the waste
management industry and the production of waste in the UK since the
1960s, with a particular focus on London. The volume includes
testimonies from former refuse collectors, senior municipal
waste managers, policy makers and academics. Chaired by Dame Joan
Ruddock with an introduction by Councillor Lewis Herbert.
Jones E M and Tansey E M. (eds) (2015)
Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 56. London: Queen Mary University of London.
ISBN 978 1 91019 5062
'… there was no comprehensive or cohesive policy
about segregation of the waste in the hospitals. One hospital produced
blue sacks for kitchen waste, another one would use it for theatre
waste.'
Mr Nick Patterson
'… the Ministry of Housing and Local Government
published a paper [in 1967] where they said the life cycle of a fly is
10 to 14 days, therefore you should collect waste weekly.'
Dr Toni Gladding
This volume can be ordered from www.amazon.co.uk; www.amazon.com;
and all good booksellers for £6/$10 plus postage, using the ISBN. For
further details of this and other volumes in the series visit:
http://www.histmodbiomed.org/
All volumes are freely available to download.