NOISE AND ITS EFFECT ON HUMAN BEINGS

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Air conditioning and noise prevention have a definite relationship in controlled human environments. Whenever the windows of buildings are kept closed to exclude noise, air conditioning may become a practical necessity. Conversely, it follows as a natural consequence that occupants of buildings living in artificial atmospheres and thus not dependent on open windows and doors will in some measure be protected against extraneous noises arising from traffic, nearby buildings or low flying aircraft. This beneficent by-product of air conditioning is considered of such importance by the Association's Committee on Air Conditioning that this report has been prepared to embody present concepts of noise in its relation to the comfort and health of human beings. The multiple and insidious ill effects of noise constitute an inadequately recognized baneful influence on the lives of many million persons throughout the country, especially those who live in urban areas. In noisy industrial employments it

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