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Cameron F. McRae, MD
Binghamton, NY

JAMA. 1970;213(13):2271.

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To the Editor.—

Your lead editorial on June 1, entitled "Paper Pollution," struck a responsive chord. In connection with the sentence, "Great white spaces of paper prevail between each observation," I was reminded of an even more wasteful practice which now appears almost an iron-clad rule, ie, that of typing on only one side of a sheet of paper, leaving the other blank. This is carried to such an extreme that even obviously mass-produced letters have been prepared with only one side of each sheet used.

Admittedly, there are cases in which only one side of the paper should be used. But even after allowing for those exceptions, there is a great volume of letters and reports typed in every office, running more than one page each, in which about twice as much paper is used as necessary, because of this idea—evidently, for some reason, drilled into every student taking . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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