Pinkham Way Incinerator: [Reposted and extended] Major study into incinerator impact on infant mortality rate set to get started

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"The Health Protection Agency [HPA] is set to make good on a 2003 promise by former chief executive Pat Troop to undertake a study into the long-term health effects of chemical exposure from landfill sites and incinerators.

"Critics have argued that it's not the microscopic particles emitted by incinerators that kill youngsters in these areas, but poverty. It's certainly true that inhabitants of many of the areas in which incinerators are sited are at the lower end of the social scale but Shrewsbury resident Michael Ryan's 'trick' is to show that the death rates in 'middle class’ areas are higher if there's an incinerator lurking in the background.

"Chingford Green Ward is an affluent area of Waltham Forest, and yet it has the second highest average number of child deaths at in the whole of London. It just happens to be close to Britain’s largest incinerator, at Edmonton."

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