Control of Environmental Lung Disease

Abstract

ENVIRONMENTAL lung disease is an important source of ill-health, disability and death that can he greatly reduced by preventive measures. We review the problem, basing ourselves on a document prepared, by one of us (A.B.), for the Task Force on Research Planning in Environmental Health Science.† The assignment focused on occupational exposures as a cause of lung disease; general atmospheric pollution is beyond our scope.Harriet L. Hardy and J. E. Leahy¹ have described some of the difficulties in recognizing occupational lung disease in the United States. There has been lack of action on the part of many who should . . .