抄録
We have investigated the health effects of air pollution during the perinatal period through the records of birth, immature foetus birth, still-birth and death certificates from 1968 to 1975 in Yokkaichi area. Following result was obtained:
The relationships between the surfur dioxide level and immature foetus birth rate, infant death rate and still-birth rate were relatively small and correlation coefficients betwen sulfur dioxide level and these rates had statistically no significant difference.