Air Pollution
Sir, —May the attention of those responsible be drawn to these points, which emerge from an article in the latest “Science Digest”: “Every community with 2500 or more people suffers from air pollution; not just discomfort, but disease and death now threaten us. The 15.000 quarts of air each citizen breathes brings into the delicate tissues of bronchial pathways and lungs a portion of contaminants, their deadly effect masked in every type of respiratory ailment from asthma and bronchitis to king cancer. Only if air pollution illnesses were made a reportable disease could we get an idea of the extent to which the nation's health has been damaged. The private physician can treat his patient for a lung ailment, but alone cannot dean up the air.”—Yours, etc.,
FOR HEALTHY AIR. July 22. 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 3
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