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i> Hyglyut U:aos' August, IfrtiO 'ivaling Plants, and Domestic Heating Plantfj Steel and Allied Industries; Miscellaneous IMilutame from Comhuitiun; Permits and Faos; Licence* and Feu* for Solid Fuel Dealer*; Nuisance*! Alleged Violation*; lieusir.ptand Appeals; Emergency Cruui; Penalties; Emurgcm.ics -*ud 6`everabJiityj Kepoaler; and Effective Dato. An Air Pollution Control Advleury Committee shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. The Board of Health way `.nuke recommendation* to the Board oi County Commissioners for such appoint* taunts. This Committee shall study the problem of air pollution control within the County, and shall from time to time recommend to the Board of Health appropriate means of air pollution abatement, including needed additions to or revision* of these Kulut and RrguUtions.' 'the Air Pollution Centro! Advisory Committue shall consist of not less lhar. U nor more titan IS members. Not more than 2 members of said Committee shill ho;d any public office. Five members shall he appointed for a term of one year, S members for a term of 2 yuars, and thu remainder for a term of 2 years, Upon expiration of any term all succeeding terms shell be for n term of 3 years. The policy of she County of Allegheny Is declared to bu, that thwugh coopcvnthu vrlort, the Director and thu Committee shell continually strive, in collabor ation with ruuievcntatives of all affocted groups and industries, to diminish air pollution and promote sound air pollution control practices. .9 A Comprehensivu Radiation Centro! Program in New York City. H, Slats, Radiology 74, 474-479 (March I960). A Radiation Health Code became effective in New York City on June IS, I95d. Th Code providus for the registration of all radiation sources within New York City and requires compliance with recommendations of the National Committee on Radiation Pro tection. The program of radiation control la reviewed. - Nuclear Scl. Abets, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND NOTICES Accident Fa.U, 1963 Edition. National Safety Council, 425 N. Michigan Avenue. Chicago 11, Illinois. 9t> pp. (1950). $1.85. discount in quantities* Accidental deaths reported in the United States in 1959 were up 400 from the 1958 total of 91.000, Increases in work and motor-vehicle deaths were partially offset by a der.i`ecc3 in home* Tho 1959 death rate of 51.6 per 100,000 persons was the lowest on record. Disabling injuries amounted to 1,950,000* The accidents in whieh the deaths and injuries occurred, together with non-lr.jury motor-vehicle accidents, work accidents and fires, cost V'i nation in 1959, at least $13,000,000* Accidental work deaths in 1959 totaled about 13,*00, *n Increase of 500 over the 1958 total. Disabling work injuries totaled 1,950,030, a rise of 'bi)t0Q0 from thu revised 1958 total. Contributing to the increases was an Increase In tout hours worked; employment rose about 2% and average boura worked per week up nearly 1%. uce thu end of the war, accidental death# of worker# on the Job have decreased 16%. Off hi <oh deaths show very little change, and for most yeers actually total more than at the end ii the war. The ratio of ofi-job to on-Job deaths increased from 1.82 in 1945 to a high of 2. IJ n 1957. In recent years, this ratio has botn decreasing ae off-job programs gain uppur>, `A'r.ils deaths have decreased lees off the Job than on the Job, the reverse is true i. > ji.jl .1,. , Since 1945, on-Job injuries have decreased only 3% compared with an 18% doerua**. f\-i u.Jfcries off the job. Handling objects Is the principal source of eompeneable work injuries. Falls tsuie the next largest number, with falling objects and machinery accidents the third and fourth uurcee. Fatal Injuries arise principally out of vehicle accidents, while injuries of temporary ^"ihitity arise principally out of handling accidents* Among reporting states, tho average compensation paid In all work injury cases was about $775. Fatalities averaged nearly 813,800; permanent partial disabilities over $1,200. Other interesting sections in this book let present statistics on motor-vehicle accidents and on accidents on tho farm. In the home, AnJ at school. I| >t Il II i\ vri?