Abstract
Is noise driving you crazy? This was the subject of a syndicated article in a newspaper Sunday supplement of August 1947. Psychiatrists and psychologists who have studied the problem regard noise as one of the most serious threats to our health. Long-continued noise menaces health and destroys efficiency. produces fatigue, which impairs efficiency. encourages inattention and lack of concentration, which is again reflected in lack of efficiency. promotes absenteeism and again impairs efficiency. The nervous system is not constituted to take this sort of battering. One becomes jumpy, jittery and irritable under the impact of continuous Neurasthenia and psychasthenia develop which are not incomparable to battle fatigue. Podolsky said, It is not an exaggeration at all to say that often cases of insanity are caused by nervous systems which cannot adjust themselves to the constant bombardment of noise. Business executives realize that noise causes inattention, lack
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