Environmental factors in respiratory disease dd reid md aberd phd lond reader in epidemiology and vital statistics london school of hygiene and tropical medicine london wc1 in the study of respiratory disease in its community setting i have followed milroys precepts quot that more diligent and continued attention may be paid . Description environmental factors in respiratory disease provides an overview of the state of knowledge on the role of environmental factors in respiratory disease the book opens with a discussion of some trends and developments which bear on concerns with respiratory disease and the environment this is followed by separate chapters on pulmonary . Environmental factors in respiratory disease provides an overview of the state of knowledge on the role of environmental factors in respiratory disease the book opens with a discussion of some trends and developments which bear on concerns with respiratory disease and the environment. These 2 papers report the 1957 milroy lectures in which a series of research projects are described which have in common the attempted assessment of the relative importance of specific environmental factors in the onset and outcome of respiratory disease in the lecturers own words to be effective disease control must be based on a more precise assessment of the relative importance of each