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For a quarter of a century the Environment Agency and its expert health advisers have failed to examine ONS data that shows infant death rates rising after incinerators start operating.
Read the reportThis report details the varying perinatal mortality rates in Corby around the period of the notorious steelworks “clean-up”.
The post-Crossness incinerator rise in Bexley's birth defects was predictive of a corresponding rise of Bexley's infant death rate.
Corby Council's Public Health advisers should have notified Corby Council of the significance of the infant mortality spike during the clean up of the steel works.
In 2008, Dr Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, and Dr Robert Maynard of the Health Protection Agency were alerted to the research. See the letters they received and their replies.
Second acknowledgement of the letter of 19 June 2024.