“SMOG” IN U.S. TOWN LAST YEAR
NEARLY 6000 PEOPLE SICK (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. The Public Health Service has reported that the “smog” which in five days caused sickness io nearly 6000 people, 43 per cent, of the population, at Donora, Pennsylvania, a year ago was a result of an unusual combination of warm, stagnant air and heavily smoke-polluted fog. The report was the first disclosure that the effect of the poisoned air had been so widely felt. Accounts at the time mentioned 20 deaths and several hundred sick. A report.by the United States Sur-geon-General (Dr. Leonard Scheele) warned that the circumstances could occur again at Donora or other highlyindustriaiised areas. The Federal Security Administrator (Mr Oscar Ewing) said: "What we have now ’is certain knowledge that the problem is of major importance. We can now say positively what could not be said before with scientific proof that air contamination in industrial areas can cause an acute disabling disease.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25935, 15 October 1949, Page 7
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