A Study of Illness in a Group of Cleveland Families

Respiratory symptoms and ventilatory function: a family study.

“…This is in contrast with the study of Dingle, Badger, Feller, Hodges, Jordan, and Rammelkamp (1953) in a middle and upper class group of families in Cleveland, and of Brimblecombe, Cruickshank, Masters, Reid, Stewart, and Sanderson (1958) in a working-class group of families in London, who found the highest incidence rate for respiratory disease was in the pre-school child. Our findings might be explained by the exposure of these children to high levels of air pollution in early life resulting in residual effects upon the respiratory tract.…”

Children with Recurrent Respiratory Tract Infections Tend to Belong to Families with Health Problems

“…Of 395 school-age children belonging to the 1975-79 birth cohorts, who had attended day-care centres as preschoolers (1 980-82), and who had been prospectively followed owing to their participation in a study of pneumococcal immunization (9), 70 children were enrolled in the present study which started in 1986. The children included fn the immunization study were recruited from 66 day-care centres in the municipalities of Lund attended by approximately 4 000 children.…”

A Controlled Study of the Effects of Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy in Children

“…Similarly, too much reliance cannot be placed on infrequent post-operative inquiries about a child's health (Hadfield, 1950;Johnston and Watkins, 1954). It has been shown by Dingle, Badger, Feller, Hodges, Jordan, and Rammelkamp (1953) and Brimblecombe, Cruickshank, Masters, Reid, Stewart, and Sanderson (1958) that, with a system of frequent home visiting, reasonably accurate records can be obtained. A study of the effects of tonsillectomy employing this method of collecting data eliminates a serious source of error.…”