Industrial pollution
“A Question of Survival: ! Public Poison” is a programme on the victims of industrial pollution concentrating on Minamata Bay, a fishing community in southern Japan which has seen 100 cases of acute mercury poisoning since 1955, resulting in funnel vision, paralysis, and in many cases, death.
This has been caused by the careless wholesale dumping of large quantities of industrial waste matter in the sea from which the people take their fish. The film also examines critical areas of toxic contamination in other parts of Japan, and Canada, where a hunting lodge had to close down because of the waste dumped into a river a hundred miles awav.
Particular emphasis is placed on the illnesses which result from industrial pollution.
! “A Question of Survival: I Public Poison” a 8.8. C. docuimentary, screens on Sunday iat 10.00 p.m.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 4
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139Industrial pollution Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 4
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