Activists and advocates :: Toronto's Health Department, 1883-1983 /

For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department's staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness an...

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1. Verfasser: MacDougall, Heather Anne
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1990.
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Zusammenfassung:For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department's staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness and communicable disease control procedures that have made the city a healthy place to live. This centennial history anlyzes the complex interaction of politics, patronage and professional aspirations which determine the success or failure of specific policies and programs. As such, it fills a long neglected g.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index.
ISBN:9781554880652
1554880653
1550020722
9781550020724
9781459713826
1459713826