David T. Janigan

Dr. Janigan, a physician, has practised medical and surgical pathology for 42 years, of which for 28 years he subspecialized in lung disorders, including occupational and environmental. Semi-retired, he lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

\

  • Environmental Illness in Nova Scotia, 1983-2003

    By David T. Janigan     January 2004

    Nova Scotia was the first Canadian province to be faced with a large-scale demand for workers’ compensation in a single institution, Camp Hill Medical Centre, Halifax. More than half of the 1100 workers complained of environmental illnesses (or the WHO’s idiopathic environmental intolerances) blamed on the poor indoor air quality, which was exhaustively investigated. In response, the Province established three outpatient facilities, one permanent, and overlapping and following these events, other provincial health institutions and numerous schools recorded outbreaks of environmental illness. This account attempts to document these intertwined events. It reviews how policy decisions by different provincial departments, hospital administrations and school boards responded to controversial illnesses. As environmental illness continues to appear in different forms and places, Janigan’s account will be useful to current policy makers.

    Learn More

Find Books

Follow Us

Fernwood Publishing Company Limited gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, the Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism under the Manitoba Publishers Marketing Assistance Program and the Province of Manitoba, through the Book Publishing Tax Credit, for our publishing program.