[Meteorologic effects on dental pain conditions].

Cases of treatment because of acutely occurring states of pain were analysed in a big-city dental outpatients department. The one-year examination covered about 4,000 cases of the total number of 40,000 consultations. As for the diagnoses considered in the examination, it concerned primarily dental caries, acute apical periodontitis and pulpitis.

[Unusual emission conditions and treatment cases at a central emergency and intensive care department].

Any increase of daily requests for care at a hospital emergency room in Berlin (capital of the GDR) were not reported during the days of extraordinary immission situation (Smog) in January 1982 and 1985. But a special attention is necessary for people over 75 years. The information is based on the analysis of 13,000 acute internal affections from 1981 to 1985 recorded in a hospital emergency room.

[House call activity by emergency medical services and unusual emission conditions].

Some 65,000 requests for visits by Emergency Aid (SMH) at First-Aid Station Berlin (capital of the GDR) had been noticed in winter 1981/82. About 25,000 requests for visits were only because of cardio-circulatory and respiratory system-symptoms. The number of these requests for visits increased continuously from January to March, especially during days of epidemic situations (acute respiratory diseases--ARD), but also after a period of time with high temperature, humidity and after föhn-weather.