{"title":"A study of combustibility of wastes of two hospitals for determining disposal by incineration.","authors":"D B Ray, R Bhaskaran, R N Basu, P C Lahiri","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Determination of quantity, quality and characteristics of the wastes of two hospitals located in the same sector of a class B city was undertaken to review the present dumping method of disposal. On an average 1,424.71 and 224.6 kgs. of five types of wastes as per the moisture content were found daily for seven days in these two hospitals of 1000 general beds, and 600 long stay beds for chest tuberculosis and other Cardiothoracic diseases respectively. The wastes of first hospital had higher combustibility due to its sprawling nature and activities for general patients than that of the second multistoreyed hospital treating special cases. A combustibility analysis of hospital wastes would help to decide whether to adopt incineration for disposal.</p>","PeriodicalId":79901,"journal":{"name":"Health and population; perspectives and issues","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1979-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health and population; perspectives and issues","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Determination of quantity, quality and characteristics of the wastes of two hospitals located in the same sector of a class B city was undertaken to review the present dumping method of disposal. On an average 1,424.71 and 224.6 kgs. of five types of wastes as per the moisture content were found daily for seven days in these two hospitals of 1000 general beds, and 600 long stay beds for chest tuberculosis and other Cardiothoracic diseases respectively. The wastes of first hospital had higher combustibility due to its sprawling nature and activities for general patients than that of the second multistoreyed hospital treating special cases. A combustibility analysis of hospital wastes would help to decide whether to adopt incineration for disposal.
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