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December 2001, Vol 91, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 1917
© 2001 American Public Health Association

LETTER

LAND USE HISTORY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Dale A. Stirling, MLA

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Dale A. Stirling, MLA, Intertox, Inc, 2819 Elliott Ave, Suite 201, Seattle, WA 98121-1122 (e-mail: dastirling{at}intertox.com).

Eckel, Rabinowitz, and Foster have done well in revealing the presence of heretofore unrecognized lead-smelting sites.1 They demonstrate that land use history can be an important tool in revealing public health hazards. Perhaps if other studies are performed in the future, additional important historical resources will be utilized. Such resources could include city street directories, real estate atlases, building permits and plans, title records, archived business records, and aerial photographs, among others.

It is likely that other unrecognized lead-smelting sites exist in the United States. It is also likely that there are numerous unrecognized historical industrial sites that generated and disposed of hazardous substances and materials in urban, suburban, and rural environments. The skills of many disciplines will be required as additional unrecognized sites of concern are discovered, mapped, and remediated to protect human health and the environment.

Accepted for publication July 5, 2001.

Reference

1. Eckel WP, Rabinowitz MB, Foster GD. Discovering unrecognized lead-smelting sites by historical methods. Am J Public Health. 2001;91:625–627.[Abstract]




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