ATTACKS FROM FUMES
Effect On Chest Ailments
“The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, June 26.
Between 1951 and 1955 the death rate from asthma and bronchitis in Onehunga and Otahuhu —two of the southern Auckland suburbs in the “fumes area”—was higher than in Mount Albert, which is outside the area. This was shown in a report by the Medical Officer of Health in Auckland (Dr. A. S. Wallace) in the latest issue of the “New Zealand Medical Journal.” “But the actual number of cases involved did not allow the proper application of tests of any significance, said the report, which showed no evidence of increased deaths during January, February and March, when the fumes attacks are most common.
“It seems unlikely that acute fumes attacks cause an immediate increase in mortality,” said the report. “However, while the seasonal pattern of deaths in this area conforms with those in other countries, it is possible that the excess of deaths in the winter months is due to delayed effects from the attacks in elderly persons, with chronic asthma or bronchitis.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28314, 27 June 1957, Page 16
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