[Acute occupational poisonings].

The contributors provide an analysis of acute occupational poisoning cases basing on the data obtained by the Institute of Occupational Diseases in Leningrad for 1980-1987, investigate the structure of the registered acute poisonings, their occurrence and reasons. A more detailed clinical description of an acute poisoning with trichlorethylene is given with particular emphasis on its cardiotoxic effects.

[A case of mass legionellosis infection in an enterprise of the rubber technology industry].

On the basis of the analysis of the sanitary and hygienic conditions, epidemiology of a mass disease, clinical picture of the disease during a 6-month trial period the problems of differentiated diagnosis of infectious and toxic processes, examination of capacity for work, the course of diseases were studied in 219 workers who had had legionellosis. The participation of various specialists in the analysis of analogous cases at the enterprises with chemical environmental contamination and developed systems of air conditioning was considered necessary.