Some Aspects of Pneumoconiosis in a Group of Mechanised Iron Foundries
INDEXContentsMembers of the Committees 5 Foreword 6 Introduction 9 General 9 Procedure 9 The Survey Method 12 X-ray and clinical survey 12 The Selected cases of the present study 13 Graphical Presentation of Results 14 Graphical method 14 Uses and limitations 15 The Medical Survey 16 The First Survey 16 The Second Survey 16 The nature of pneumoconiosis 16 The estimation of progression 17 Retirement 18 Prevalence 18 The Technical Study 19 Conclusions 19 Acknowledgements 20 Appendices 1 The First Survey (1958): Summary of conclusions respecting iron foundrymen 21 2 The Second Survey (1958-68): Diagrams showing all cases by process and foundry 22 3 The Second Survey (1958-68): Diagrams showing two groups of coremakers 26 4 The Second Survey: Results of selected cases in tabular form 29 5 The use of respirators 35 6 Observations on the experience of the surveys 35 7 Foundry survey film readings 38 8 Statistical analysis of medical results 44 9 Technical data 50 10 References 72
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