[Health status of dwellers of cities and towns with developed chemical industry].

Assessing the physical development of children residing in the developed chemical industrial town has revealed that more than a fourth of the children examined are abreast of their biological age and that there is a trend for reducing the number of those who have the level of biological development which corresponds to their age. In the total morbidity pattern among children, respiratory diseases rank first, whose proportion increases in the higher air-polluted areas. A comprehensive assessment shows that the overwhelming majority (88-93%) belong to Health Groups II-IY, which is indicative of the unfavourable environmental factors of the town.

[Monitoring the health status in workers of chemical plants].

A morbidity level of workers in chemical industry depends on labour conditions, anthropometric dates and harmful habits. As informative signs of health state are 2-6 indices of humoral and cellular immunity. The age, social state and life duration in this town are less informative for health state.

[Comparative evaluation of morbidity in workers of chemical plants].

The assessment of workers morbidity in production of synthetic detergents and organic synthesis is presented. The levels of morbidity depend of labour conditions, production technology, age of workers. Respiratory infectious diseases occurred at all enterprises.

[Industrial hygiene in the modern manufacture of synthetic detergents].

Work conditions in the synthetic detergents production according to the new technology created by Sumitomo (Japan) were evaluated from hygienic point of view. The main unfavourable factor is the contamination of air by initial products (aerosols of sodium tripoli phosphate, carboxy methylcellulose, optic bleacher, enzymes et al.) and dust of the final product.

[Magnesium sulfate as an industrial poison].

The article provides information on the hygienic assessment of the labour conditions in magnesium sulphate processing, along with the experimental data on the toxicity of this chemical compound at different ways of its penetration into human body, and describes the damaging mechanisms of its action. The toxicity parameters were related to the 4th class of hazardousness (GOST 12.1.

[Experimental study of the effect of rubidium on the cardiovascular system].

The experimental data on the chronic inhalation effects of rubidium on the myocardium and the rate of natural organism aging are presented. No cardiotoxic effect of rubidium sulfate has been established. Hypotensive effect is associated with neurohormonal shifts at the level of an integral organism.