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Article: Air pollution behind more deaths in Canada's largest city
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 9, 2004
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Air pollution behind more deaths in Canada's largest city
OTTAWA, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Air pollution is to blame for more
deaths in Canada's largest city of Toronto than originally believed,
health officials said in a study published Friday.
The study by Toronto's Public Health Department estimates that
five air pollutants contribute to about 1,700 premature deaths and
6,000 hospital admissions in the city every year.
A similar study in 2000 suggested air pollution was behind 1, 000
deaths and 5,500 hospitalization each year in Toronto. The population
of the city is about 3 million.
Overall, the air quality is roughly the same now as it was four
years ago, with higher ...