[The hygienic aspect of the problems of noise (author's transl)]

Starting from the physical, physiological and psychological elements of noise, the question of significance to health is raised. In addition to the aural, the extra-aural effects of sound and the autonomic reactions under emotionally neutral and under abnormal psycho-emotional neutral and umotionally neutral and under abnormal psycho-emotional conditions are discussed. The questions of benefit or of the obscuring of risks by, becoming accustomed to noise are discussed and measures described which lead to reduction of the intensity of sound at the source, on the propagation pathway and for the recipient.