Rodrick Wallace, PhD.
NY Psychiatric Institute

Deborah Wallace, PhD.,Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health

To understand how serious closing down NYC firehouses, it is important to have a scientific & mathematical analysis done to show the detrimental effects of what happened last time they closed the firehouses. Wallace & Wallace (Verso) have made the case perfectly crystal clear the extreme threat to public safety closing the firehouses has been. We feel this book really does a great job explaining point by point how the city in the 1970's embarked on a self-destructive path by closing the firehouses. Download Chapter 2 and then here to purchase this book!

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(5/29/03) Discriminator public policies and the New York City Tuberculosis Epidemic, 1975-1993 by Deborah N. Wallace, PhD., Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA.

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(5/03/03) The New York City Fire Epidemic as Toxic Phenomena by Roderick Wallace in Arch Occup Environ Health (1982) 50:33-51

Summary. Reductions in the fire service in New York City from 1972 to 1976 appear to have caused a disproportionate increase in fire-fighter work load through several unexpected mechanisms of fire contagion. In turn, the work load increase has itself had a disproportionate physiologic impact: A classic dose-response relation has been observed between a composite measure of per capita structural fire work load and the percentage of the fire-fighting work force retiring under conditions of disability. After 1974, the increase in work load seems to have caused entry to the ‘linear’ portion of the dose-response Implications of this synergism are explored for both New York City and other American urban areas now suffering ‘fiscalcrises’ or planning fireservice reductions.