Some aspects of the development of the water quality control programme in Jamaica 1956 - 1975

ABSTRACT

Due to the high incidence of water-borne diseases in the island in the early 1950s, the Government took the decision to institute an islandwide programme of "water quality control". On the advice of an international sanitary engineer the services of a Jamaican sanitary engineer were secured. He was employed to the Ministry of Health. Training programmes were instituted and training of related personnel has been ongoing. Sixty per cent of those trained found the programme inadequate for the job of water quality control. It is thought that more sophisticated instrumentation is needed to deal with the more complex type of water pollution as well as a higher level of training for personnel (AU)