Comparison of hardness of drinking water and morbidity of population consuming water from infiltration water intake

Abstract

The link between the total hardness of drinking water and the primary and total population turnover in polyclinics of the city, located on the territory supplied with drinking water from the infiltration water intake, for some diseases (malignant neoplasms, blood diseases, endocrine diseases, diseases of the circulatory system, respiratory diseases, digestive diseases, skin diseases, diseases of the musculoskeletal apparatus, diseases of the genitourinary system, congenital deformities) was searched. Different manifestations of links between diseases of the population and the available level of water hardness of the infiltration water intake zone were revealed.