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The "2005 review of the London Health Strategy high-level indicators" by the London Health Commission shows the"Hospital admission rates for self-harm per 100,000 aged 10-19 years old, by borough 2003/4" on page 43 of the above report, which is online.
Waltham Forest is the Borough with the highest rate, with Lewisham in second place.
Waltham Forest is downwind of Edmonton incinerator and Lewisham is home to the SELCHP incinerator at New Cross.
Self-harming rates will be high in areas with high rates of industrial PM2.5 air pollution, and so will rates of suicide, COPD, asthma, infant mortality, stillbirth, stroke, ME/CFS, MS, cancers, heart attack, diabetes 2 etc.
Page 88 of the above report shows a map of Boroughs with stillbirth rates for 2001-3, where the three Boroughs with the highest rates in London are Lewisham, Greenwich, and Newham - all of which are close to the SELCHP incinerator.
After Dr Dick van Steenis published his asthma survey in West Wales [The Lancet, 8 April 1995] he obtained the referral rates to Consultant Pschiatrists for clinical depression in both high and low asthma post-code areas, and observed that the referral rate in the high asthma zones were nine times greater than in the low asthma zones.
Dr Li, of Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust, has already observed that obesity rates in Waltham Forest schools are not linked to deprivation, contrary to government doctrine. If she checks the infant mortality rates in electoral wards in Waltham Forest, she'll notice that Chingford Green, which is one of the richest wards, has the highest infant mortality rate in that Borough, and the second highest in London at 17.1 per 1,000 live births.
If the PCT directors of public health at Hillingdon, Barnet and Harrow examined infant mortality rates in the wards where their PCTs meet, they'll find a cluster of wards with high infant mortality rates, including the highest in London [19.1 per 1,000] that is downwind of the Colnbrook incinerator and also the clinical waste incinerator at Hillingdon Hospital.
Are no UK doctors, apart from Dr Dick van Steenis, aware of the relationship between industrial PM2.5 air pollution and a range of avoidable illnesses?
Kind regards,
Michael Ryan, Shrewsbury
Michael Ryan, Shrewsbury
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