There is very little in the literature of noise and its control that meets the needs of the general public. Foreign documents await authoritative translation and distribution facilities. The following books and reference materials, some of them technical and not necessarily mirroring the author's point of view, provide additional background information on the complex subject of noise and its abatement.
Chalupnik, James D., ed. Transportation Noises: A Symposium on Acceptability Criteria, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1970.
Harris, Cyril M., ed. Handbook of Noise Control, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1957.
Lord, P., and Thomas, FL. Noise Measurement and Control, Heywood and Company Ltd., London, England, 1963.
Paul, Samuel. Apartments: Their Design and Development, Reinhold Publishing Company, New York, 1967.
Peterson, Arnold P.G., and Gross, Ervin E., Jr. Handbook of Noise Measurement, General Radio Company, West Concord, Mass., 1967.
Shurcliff, William A. S/S/T and Sonic Boom Handbook, Ballantine Books, New York, 1970.
Aircraft Noise Problems: Hearings Before Subcommittees of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1963.
Bell, Alan. Noise: An Occupational Hazard and Public Nuisance, World Health Organization, Public Health Paper #30, Geneva, Switzerland, 1966.
Berendt, Raymond D. et al., eds. A Guide to Airborne, Impact, and Structure Borne Noise Control in Multi-Family Buildings. (Prepared for The Federal Housing Authority of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by The National Bureau of Standards.) U.S. Government Printing Office,. Washington, D.C., 1967.
Bond, James. Responses of Man and Lower Animals to Acoustical Stimuli, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, 1956.
Borsky, Paul N. Community Reactions to Sonic Booms in the Oklahoma City Area, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1965. (Available from Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Sill Building, Springfield, Va., 22151)
Brown, Edward F. et al., eds. City Noise: The Report of the Commission to Study Noise in New York City and Develop Means of Abating It. Noise Abatement Commission, Department of Health, New York, 1930.
Citizens for A Quieter City, Inc. One Year Later: 'A Progress Report, New York, 1968. (Available through Citizens for A Quieter City, Inc., Box 777, FDR Station, New York, N.Y. 10022)
Cohen, Alexander. Location-Design Noise Control of Transportation, National Center for Urban and Industrial Health of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Cincinnati, Ohio, January, 1967.
Committee on Conservation of Hearing, American Academy of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology, Subcommittee on Noise in Industry. Guide for Conservation of Hearing in Noise, The Academy, Los Angeles, Cal., 1964.
Coral Gables, Florida, City of. Progressive Noise Control Legislation: Ordinance Nos. 927 (1955), 1004 (1957), 1218 (1961), 1553 (1961), 1578 (1966). (Available through City Clerk, City Hall, Coral Gables, Florida)
Federal Council for Science and Technology, Committee on Environmental Quality. Noise—Sound Without Value, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1968.
Franken, Peter A. Glossary of Terms Frequently Used Concerning Noise Pollution, American Institute of Physics, New York, 1967.
Goldstein, Sidney, and Odell, Albert H. Comments on the Problem of Jet Aircraft Noise, The Port of New York Authority, New York, 1966.
Goodfriend, Lewis. Community Noise Problems—Origins and Control, Goodfriend-Ostergaard Associates, Cedar Knolls, N.J., 1969.
Hosey, Andrew D. and Powell, Charles H. Industrial Noise: A Guide to its Evaluation, Public Health Service Publication No. 1572, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1967.
Jet Aircraft Noise Panel, Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President. Alleviation of Jet Aircraft Noise Near Airports: A Report of the Jet Aircraft Noise Panel, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1966.
The Law on Noise, The Noise Abatement Society, London, 1969. (Available through the Noise Abatement Society, 6 Old Bond St., London W.2 England)
Mayor's Task Force on Noise Control. Toward A Quieter City, New York, 1970. (Available through the New York Board of Trade, 295 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. for $1.75)
National Academy of Sciences. Committee on S/S/T-Sonic Boom. Report on Human Response to the Sonic Boom, Washington, D.C., 1968.
National Research Council of Canada, Division of Applied Physics. A Brief Study of a Rational Approach to Legislative Control of Noise, Ottawa, Canada 1968.
Noise Abatement in Practice, International Association Against Noise, Zurich, Switzerland, 1966. (Available through the International Association Against Noise, Sihlstrasse 17, Zurich, Switzerland)
Noise—Final Report. Committee on the Problem of Noise, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, England, 1964.
Noise in Hospitals: An Acoustical Study of Noises Affecting the Patient, Public Health Service Publication No. 930-D-11, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1963.
Noise: Its Effects on Man and Machine: Hearings before the Special Investigating Subcommittee of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1960.
The President's Science Advisory Committee, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment: Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1965.
Rutgers Noise Pollution Conference. Proceedings of the Rutgers Noise Pollution Conference, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers—The State University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1968.
Thiessen, G.J. Community Noise—Surface Transportation, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, 1967.
U.S. Congress (House). Congressional Record, April 21, 1966, pp. 8339-8363.
U.S. Congress (Senate), Congressional Record, October 29, 1969, pp. E9031-E9112.
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Task Force on Environmental Health and Related Problems. A Strategy for a Livable Environment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1967.
Ward, W. Dixon, and Fricke, James E., eds. Noise As a Public Health Hazard, The American Speech and Hearing Association, Washington, D.C., 1969.
CF Letter: A Report on Environmental Issues from the Conservation Foundation. Vol. 1, No. 1—, April, l966—(Subscriptions available from The Conservation Foundation, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, at $6.00 a year.)
Bailey, Anthony. "Noise Is A Slow Agent of Death," The New York Times Magazine, November 23, 1969.
Baron, Robert Alex. "Abatement Problems," Hearing and Speech News, Vol. 35, No. 3, May, 1967.
——. "Noise and the Urban Man," American Journal of Public Health Vol. 58, No. II, November, 1968.
——. "The Noise Receiver: The Citizen," Sound and Vibration, Vol. 3, No. 5, May, 1968.
Botsford, James H. "Using Sound Levels to Gauge Human Response to Noise," Sound and Vibration, Vol. 3, No. 10, October, 1969.
Citizens for a Quieter City, Inc. Quiet!, Vol. 1, No. 1—, Spring, l969—(Available through Citizens for A Quieter City, Box 777, FDR Station, New York, N.Y. 10022)
Cohen, Alexander. "Noise Effects on Health, Productivity, and Well-Being," Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 30, No. 7, May, 1968.
Dey, Frederick. "Auditory Fatigue and Predicted Permanent Hearing Defects from Rock-and-Roll Music," New England Journal of Medicine, February 26, 1970
Dougherty, John D. and Welsh, Oliver. "Community Noise and Hearing Loss," New England Journal of Medicine, October 6, 1966.
Farr, Lee E. "Medical Consequences of Environmental Home Noises," The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 202, No. 3, October 16, 1967.
Flugrath, James M. Modern Day Rock and Roll Music and Damage-Risk Criteria" The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 45, No. 3. 1969.
"How Today's Noise Hurts Body and Mind," Medical World News, June 13, 1969.
Jansen, G. "Effect of Noise on Health," German Medical Monthly No. 9.
——, et al. "Reactions to Auditory Stimuli: Comparative Studies of Subjects in Dortmund, Germany and the Mabaan Tribe in the Sudan with Urban Populations." Archives of Otolaryngology, Vol. 79, May-June, 1964.
Jones, Herbert H, and Oser, James L. "Farm Equipment Noise Exposure Levels," American Industrial Hygiene Association, Vol. 29, March-April, 1968.
Lundberg, Bo and Russell, A.E. "Super Sonic Boom: Debate of the Month on the Problem to Come When the SST's Unroll Carpets of Thunder World-Wide' The Rotarian, November, 1966.
Mecklin, John M. "It's Time to Turn Down All That Noise," Fortune, October, 1969.
"Mental Hospital Admissions and Aircraft Noise," Lancet, December 13, 1969 Vol. II.
"Noise of Big Cities Is Found to Cause Stress on the Heart," Medical Tribune, March 29, 1965.
"Noise Studies Confirm Hazard to Man, Animals" Medical Tribune, January 26, 1970.
Otten, Alan L. "Bang, Crash, Thump," The Wall Street Journal, February 12, 1970.
QP (Quiet Please). Vol 1, No. 1—, 1961—(Available through The Noise Abatement Society, 6 Old Bond Street, London W. 1 England)
"The Racket That Won't Go Away," Business Week, March 16, 1968.
Ramsay, W.A. "Damage to Ottawa Air Terminal Building Produced By a Sonic Boom," Materials Research and Standards, November, 1964.
Rintelmann, William, and Gasway, Donald. "A Survey of Hearing Conservation Programs in Representative Aerospace Industries: Prevalence of Programs and Monitoring Audiometry" American Industrial Hygiene Journal, Vol. 28, July-Aug., 1967.
Rosen, Samuel, "Hearing Studies in Selected Urban-Rural Populations," Transactions of the New York Academy' of Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 1, November, 1966.
——. "Hearing Loss and Coronary Heart Disease," Archives of Otolaryngology, Vol. 82, September, 1965.
——. "Noise Pollution: A Need for Action," Medical Tribune, January 4, 1968.
——. "Presbycusis Study of a Relatively Noise-Free Population in the Sudan," Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology Vol. 71, No. 3, September, 1962.
"The Sound Around Us," Roche Medical Image, August, 1967.
Stephenson, R.J. and Vulkan, G.H. "Urban Planning Against Noise," Official Architecture and Planning, May, 1967.
TVASNAC "Quotes" (Town-Village Aircraft Safety and Noise Abatement Committee of Hempstead, N.Y.) Vol. 1, No. 1—, 1969—.
The UNESCO Courier: Noise Pollution Issue. July, 1967. (Available through UNESCO Publications Center, 317 East 34th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016)
"Urban Noise Control," Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, Vol. 4, No. 1, March, 1968.