Power station affects health
Simon Conolly, of Telford & Wrekin PCT, and whoever re-sent his letter of 12 September 2005, are wrong to suggest that infant mortality rates, and deaths of all ages, are not affected by PM2.5 emissions from Ironbridge Power Station.
Simon Conolly, of Telford & Wrekin PCT, and whoever re-sent his letter of 12 September 2005, are wrong to suggest that infant mortality rates, and deaths of all ages, are not affected by PM2.5 emissions from Ironbridge Power Station.
Office of National Statistics data reveal that a group of electoral wards downwind of Ironbridge Power Station had an average infant mortality rate that was significantly higher than in a group of wards that was upwind of the power station.
Mr Conolly's assertion that my asthma survey at www.ukhr.org "contains serious methodological flaws" is untrue, as I used the technique approved by The Lancet in 1995, when that journal examined Dr van Steenis's asthma survey.
The electoral ward with the highest infant mortality rate in London for the three year period 2003-5 is downwind of a major incinerator and is also one of the wealthiest wards in London, indicating that "socioeconomic deprivation" is a myth.
There are many journal articles linking infant deaths to industrial PM2.5 pollution. It's unfortunate that Telford & Wrekin PCT haven't read any.
Michael Ryan, Shrewsbury
l Mr Simon Conolly's letter, originally carried in September 2005 was inadvertently repeated on the letters page in August 2006.
We apologise for any confusion or embarrassment caused.
