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FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR
DATE 1956 Jan DOC CSR025
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - Dust Becoming Bigger Hazard in Industry More Workers Affected
THE AGE F
Scouts Home
t and
rring
More
Dust has been exposed as industry by an extensiva ray
a serious health survey of 4000
hazard in Meikourna
&
| R thate silicosis had been found asbepsertioodsiass afInfcapaecitactedt ces of lung sing IncapTachitoatmedas warned ann.
Bo
workers in
dusty trades
disclosed | 20 years to gain grip sccord
#F
The investigation and
to the intensity of cxsing
ces
,,
-
serious
lung
posure
Signs
of asbestosis
bestos hrh old
cfurn going |
conduct te est ds
in as
in
shorta
period
; she was now almost totaly
:
against
against a new dust
vanadium
the lungs
|
hazard-
did not
but had
| lungs LLa aii d d tests months a soot we yer kwe wed department | .
injury . || cleaning whe. without oil- > ae.
silicosis established was
Industrial
conducted 15 hygiene Once
established
silicosis
ather Used to harden steel it in the
the Victorian did
not
when was also found
improve removed
from formed by burning oll 20 workers had
Dr. D. L. G. Thomas who | sufferer
was
to dust and cases
More than
past six
supervised supervised life survey suid ehxapdosbuereen resorded where become after in the inhaling it
workers were being
m Goawnlyy incapacitated by dust
ray had been ob-
positive
than 30 years
tained more
months after
mainly through cleaning
44444 Without
knowing it
after
the last known
PT
burning
and protective cloth-cloth-
aunts masks ured-
.
Others ,
Hath complaining Biitwetl,*
swaonnreeesdt for seven Most Dr. a, fet"
taclude se
.
ers Wynfced
shortness
breath of the
chest
ness tightness
and perhaps a
not suspected the cause
Workers
exposed to
Just tacluded 5
moulders
moulders
DRICK
tile makers furnace
and
mineral earth
bricklayers
Becently the
condition
of a WORIAS
was
dust
wstmeatos
who 19 years allica
years demuc sant
| ing
Thomas added that
Most lead poisoning was caused by the inhalation of
lead dust
Object
Wynfced Cost No Object Cost
Object . quarrymen
Aud- | quarrymemakners p> welders and metal polish-
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breathing prolonged
breathing
Britain silica containing has Take ured in rubber
of dust
face
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PERTH
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gt
Britain
Thursd Bra itay in Thursday
has expenditure
iron . sugar dust cotton dust sugar placed cane coal dust caused
limit
on
to
|-
no expenditure ali information she needs from
exiraci 140
the vital atomic tests to be held at
Big April used thei Increase
Monte Bello Islands
Thomas said before
Dr. the Dirvey
was
made
was made clclear ear at
Fremantle range number of known dust vic-
today by Dr.
ap- tims Victoria was 343 were miners
W. H. Wheeier newly scientific adviser
whom
The investigation
pointed
up to 1100
to the United KingdKoimngdom
the number pons there cluding 365
High re-
High
CoCmmoimsmsiiosnserioner
in
main- Stats had long
|
in
.
vices would not
the Woomera
a very long time because
of the risk
Even when and atomic
wes-
warheads
been perfected
|
reluctance
main-
on
-
THIS IS THE END of a long an
scouts who renched Washurton ; mountains
through hike
hike of his
the mountains Per man tent to chat to Ke
sto
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[ obsfehsotwoesd handlinghandling wortekste-d ahjnaeddctgusided ahilguhmensitcWthheeelerhad yet fired Highlands what Yarra :
cognised as
occupational disease in
the extent in industry
,
had
Australian staff realised
the sur
Ministry The been foundd is
turbingly high incidenca
| asbestosis among
work-
rerniarly Dr. world || A third of the
any | signs bestos
workers
besp showed signs of
develop-
During two years in Aushe will also
land and it would only be of great neces-
of
most elaborate
| Supply
|
guided missile develop-
ment Wheeler said
Guided
Guided
Missiles
Missiles
said no nation
weapons
trials ;
the world
had
priority of
given the highest scientife
wan
wan
Stamin
www.wk.cod
Wheeler
was formerlformerly y
Dr.
Mountain
Mountain Mountain
.
Mountain
|
that It
is
is
often
Central Highlands
Mr. clinb
Yarra
But that is what
..,.
burton
asbestas staggering the health of 50
rayed definitely health ) the four rayed
impaired
in post . and 40 others showed early
arrived effects
Ministry's associated at | of Dr. Thomas said soim nead-
the stricken workers
Died After | Peni of the disease
S J
vanced stages
in a pitiful condition
Sea Rescue nearly bush were
were unable to con-
They
*
Haue
working
and
the
children The effort made them
| slightest
for breath
gasp tha And Asbestos dust consisted of
Asbestos immunit father bably S
of minute needles
| millions
the delicate
E which pierced
| companion | = fabric of the lung leaving
| / scars that made it inelastic
past four expand
and unable to | Thompsodni'nsghy pensable | Bay |
Silica particles set up &
in the
chemical Rad hang creating tiny nodules
lands , going guided weapons several | Early of connected
soar tissue
| left him of of the
Asbestosis | gfuoridveedry weaponsdidsitsatannccee tests the 433 scouts severtahleir througho B. likely of + dence of hung
would be fired into will gents banks througho often . dead has =x while silicosis was
cancer
xed tuberculosis with Beaconsfield about nk
hout five
on them at at a staggering
rate However
live atomic
-
Died .
Director of Guided Wea- happened on one of the
It raine
pons Research and De-
Pacific Jam-
d
velonment for the British Ministry of Supply and boree
hikes
which
ended
the bu
associated with the at WarburtonWarburton yesterday raining
been
rocket develop-
Patrol Leader year
But th
ment programme since is be- Peni Waqairatu from damp abc
Sea
Sea
Rescue
gan in 1937 Dr. Wheeler
said
that
for
aircraft defence sur-
walked
through clad in
40
miles they que
wild
bush country bile my
length their my
PERTH Thursday Thursday
The
father of three children was
drowned last night near a
settlement at Rottnest La-
land He had been brought brought
ashore by his
after a
dinghy dinghy capsized capsized in
face guided weapons
would be cheaper and pro-
bably more
elective
said
fighters Dr. Wheeler
said
that
the Woomera rocket rango
and
Australlan
atomie
test
grounds were indis-
pensable to ambitions Bri-
Thompson's
He was later found
on the rocks where his
panion
while
deu^
com-
research programmes
Without
question Woo-
the world's best
but
and sandals
at the foot of Mr. Riddell he decided he could
10 better in bare feet so
sang
...
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be heard
ECTOSS
tl
off came his sandals
His hiking party of let
whe
was one of 30 who breathed
scouts
days have last
ocvoevrertehde a total of safely in
miles in the central high-
last
first
The (
for help
The |
man is John
Beaconsfield
.
40
of
idian Ocea- n
aa
In-
=
,
base
antted back at
camp on the
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scale ma
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