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© 1992 Oxford University Press

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Low Sex Ratios of Births in Areas at Risk from Air Pollution from Incinerators, as Shown by Geographical Analysis and 3-Dimensional Mapping

F L R WILLIAMS*, A B LAWSON** and O L LLOYD{dagger}

* Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee Dundee DD1 9SY, UK.
** Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Dundee Institute of Technology Bell Street, Dundee DDI IHG, UK.
{dagger} Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinece University of Hong Kong Lek Yuen Health Centre, Shalin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Previous research in environmental and occupational health has suggested that fluctuations in the sex ratios of births might provide a useful early warning to the possible health effects of toxins or other stresses in the environment. To examine further this hypothesis, we investigated the sex ratios of births in an area in central Scotland which contained two incineration plants.

Analyses of the sex ratios, at various levels of geographical detail and using 3-dimensional mapping techniques, in the residential areas at risk from airborne pollution from these incinerators showed locations with statistically significant excesses of female births.

Received 1 October 1991


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