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Air pollution, bronchitis, and lung cancer in Salford

Abstract

Incidence of bronchitis and lung cancer in various parts of the city of Salford (generally polluted, crowded city) was related to air pollution as measured by 5 instruments scattered throughout. Average daily winter SO/sub 2/ ranged from 0.06 to 0.25 ppM and smoke from 0.45 to 0.77 mg/m/sup 3/. The different districts were crudely separated into 3 pollution categories. Mortality for the 3 areas from all causes was 106, 100, and 90% of that expected; from bronchitis, 128, 97, and 52%; from lung cancer, 124, 84, and 79%; from arteriosclerotic heart disease, 90, 98, and 120%; and from lesions of CNS, 75, 124, and 111%. These differences are significant for mortality, bronchitis, and lung cancer only. On 4 of 5 occasions when smoke reached 1 mg/m/sup 3/, bronchitis mortality was more than doubled (ratios 2.7:4.0). Observed bronchitis morbidity (incapacity) in working men 45 to 64 was 130, 90, and 60% of that expected for the high, medium, and low pollution areas, respectively.
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1963
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-79-085341
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Int. J. Air Water Pollut.; (United Kingdom); Journal Volume: 7
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; AIR POLLUTION; HEALTH HAZARDS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; BRONCHITIS; CARCINOGENS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASES; HEART; LUNGS; MAN; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DISEASES; SMOKES; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; BODY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHALCOGENIDES; COLLOIDS; DISPERSIONS; HAZARDS; MAMMALS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; PRIMATES; RESIDUES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SOLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR OXIDES; VERTEBRATES; 560306* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Man- (-1987)
OSTI ID:
6288368
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: IAPWA
Submitting Site:
TIC
Size:
Pages: 5-16
Announcement Date:
Jul 01, 1979

Citation Formats

Burn, J L, and Pemberton, J. Air pollution, bronchitis, and lung cancer in Salford. United Kingdom: N. p., 1963. Web.
Burn, J L, & Pemberton, J. Air pollution, bronchitis, and lung cancer in Salford. United Kingdom.
Burn, J L, and Pemberton, J. 1963. "Air pollution, bronchitis, and lung cancer in Salford." United Kingdom.
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title = {Air pollution, bronchitis, and lung cancer in Salford}
author = {Burn, J L, and Pemberton, J}
abstractNote = {Incidence of bronchitis and lung cancer in various parts of the city of Salford (generally polluted, crowded city) was related to air pollution as measured by 5 instruments scattered throughout. Average daily winter SO/sub 2/ ranged from 0.06 to 0.25 ppM and smoke from 0.45 to 0.77 mg/m/sup 3/. The different districts were crudely separated into 3 pollution categories. Mortality for the 3 areas from all causes was 106, 100, and 90% of that expected; from bronchitis, 128, 97, and 52%; from lung cancer, 124, 84, and 79%; from arteriosclerotic heart disease, 90, 98, and 120%; and from lesions of CNS, 75, 124, and 111%. These differences are significant for mortality, bronchitis, and lung cancer only. On 4 of 5 occasions when smoke reached 1 mg/m/sup 3/, bronchitis mortality was more than doubled (ratios 2.7:4.0). Observed bronchitis morbidity (incapacity) in working men 45 to 64 was 130, 90, and 60% of that expected for the high, medium, and low pollution areas, respectively.}
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volume = {7}
journal type = {AC}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1963}
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