[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic Bronx school recorded hundreds of cases of sick students since 2005"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Bronx school recorded hundreds of cases of sick students since  
2005

Students complained of headaches, vomiting, abnormal gaits and seizures
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
November 2 2011

Students at a Bronx elementary school that relocated in September due  
to toxic contamination had for years complained of headaches,  
dizziness and other illnesses.

Records obtained by the Daily News under the Freedom of Information  
Law show that since 2005 nurses at the Bronx New School logged cases  
of kids suffering headaches, vomiting, abnormal gaits or even  
seizures nearly every month.

In May 2007, 16 students vomited at the Jerome Ave. school, records  
show. During one spell in November 2010, nurses listed five cases of  
students with heart "palpitations." And in the late 1990s, one  
student suddenly died of kidney failure.

There was obviously something wrong in that building,” "said one  
veteran school nurse who reviewed the records.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/columnists/toxic-bronx-school- 
recorded-hundreds-cases-sick-students-2005-article-1.971349? 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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