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sanitarian, n. and a.|sænɪˈtɛərɪən|
[f. sanitary a. + -an.]
A. n.
a. One who studies sanitation; one who is in favour of sanitary reform.
1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. Introd. 11, I will go with you and see the chief sewers..and if that is not an inducement to offer to a sanitarian [etc.]. 1865Cornh. Mag. May 602 Energetic and practical ‘sanitarians’ had made successful war upon dirt, overcrowding, and foul air. 1883Harper's Mag. May 924 A crusade in favor of ‘fresh air’ was fought by the sanitarians.
b. U.S. A public health officer.
1946Richmond (Va.) News 20 Mar. 4/2 A field trip to observe high-temperature, short-time pasteurization was one of the high-lights today of the closing session of the Virginia Association of Milk Sanitarians. 1974Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 23 Apr. 12/1 J. D. Kirby, chief sanitarian with the health department, said the vaccine is ‘the safest, most reliable yet perfected and is specified by the Public Health Services’. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 23 Oct. 10/2 The boss is Dale Reeves, senior public-health sanitarian and head of the consumer-protection program.
B. adj. Pertaining to sanitary matters; advocating sanitary reforms.
1884Athenæum 5 Apr. 446/2 Its serious interest is rather antiquarian than sanitarian. 1886Froude Oceana 275 In some sanitarian salon Macaulay's New Zealander..will exhibit his sketch.
Hence saniˈtarianism.
1881R. N. Boyd Chili 3 The monotonous regularity prescribed by modern sanitarianism is observed. 1891J. W. Ebsworth Roxb. Ball. VII. 425 At which some of our modern puritanic hypocrites affect to be shocked, resenting it as an outrage on their fastidious Sanitarianism. |