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© 1979 Oxford University Press

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The Relation between Respiratory Illness in Primary Schoolchildren and the Use of Gas for Cooking

II - Factors Affecting Nitrogen Dioxide Levels in the Home

B D GOLDSTEIN1,*, R J W MELIA1, S CHINN1, C du V FLOREY1, D CLARK2 and H H JOHN3

1 Dept of Community Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School London SE1 7EH
2 Middlesbrough Borough Council, Environmental Health Dept. Vancouver House, Central Mews, Gurney St., Middlesbrough, Cleveland
3 Cleveland Area Health Authority Marton House, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS4 2EJ

Goldstein B D [Department of Community Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London SE1 7EH], Melia R J W, Chinn S, Florey C du V, Clark D and John H H. The relation between respiratory illness in primary schoolchildren and the use of gas for cooking. II. Factors affecting nitrogen dioxide levels in the home. International Journal of Epidemiology 1979, 8: 339–345.

The study was designed to determine whether there was an association between indoor levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2 and respiratory illness and lung function in schoolchildren. NO2 was measured for one week in the winter outside and inside the homes of children aged 6–7 years living and attending primary schools in a defined 4 square km area in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, UK. Outdoor levels of NO2 measured at 75 points within the area ranged from 14–24 ppb weekly average. Measurements were also made in 428 kitchens with gas cookers, range 5–317 ppb, mean 112. 2 ppb, and in 87 kitchens with electric cookers, range 6–188 ppb, mean 18.0 ppb. In a random subsample of homes the range of NO2 levels in 107 children's bedrooms in homes where gas was used for cooking was 4–169 ppb, mean 30.5 ppb, in 18 bedrooms in electric cooking homes the range was 3–37 ppb, mean 13.9 ppb. NO2 levels in the gas cooking kitchens were positively related to the presence of pilot lights, use of gas fires for main heating, number of regular smokers, and the number of people in the home. Information from 29 homes with the highest kitchen NO2 levels paired with 29 low NO2 gas cooking homes showed that the daily number of meals eaten and the frequency with which the cooker was used for heating and drying clothes were significantly greater in the high N02 homes.

Received 6 August 1979


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