The Doctor's Role in Air Pollution Control
Rosen, F.L.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 61: 45-49
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7524 PMID: 14123903 Document Number: 10029
1. Air pollution, a major peril to all of us, is a far greater threat to the allergic patient. 2. During a three-day period of temperature inversion when atmospheric pollutants increased sharply, there was a threefold increase in the number of bronchial asthma patients seen in private practice. 3. The physician must initiate interdisciplinary conferences with other physicians, health officers, botanists, meteorologists, engineers, and others, so that the urgency of this health problem can be related and research stimulated. 4. The public must be alerted to demand appropriate funds for research and control measures against air pollution.
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