Control of Environmental Lung Disease

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 . . .