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R&S 105847 ../WSEDICAL RESEARCH jJHEKT DESCRIPTION FORM .' 68 69 76 Dunlicate in all cards: --^ year as-1961- rile lumber [Right justify [ferric only] Author (s), as Last Kane TS (Ko Punctuation) and coden for journal as JAMA preceeaed-by. one blank space 77 78 Sub-lades: Code Title of ?,enort; end vith spacer-bypben-hyphen-space. Policy vith Zndesc Tems. separated from each other vith -coma-space. Avoid other punctuation* ' do 'not abbreviate. 12 . " .. .61 '62 Source (Journal, Vol., Number, Pages,Bate) 12' ...........;' ' ' k_ f- h i i /"? 70 srief Sunna: 61 62 31 32 61 62 61 62 63 64 / YORKSHIRE POST MONDAY APRIL H 197$ 0000015 * About seven of the men complain of impotence a r Whether the symptoms arc t directly involved with the PVC works will not he c 1E known until the cause of the illness has In < n pinpointed fC -- hut .c.-H,ir ,,f n,,, ,,u.(, [,,, 4 . voiced have contracted uhot Is known as "cold, bJue hands." I I I I This.causes smali holes in the bones of the hands and hardening of the skin -- a t I I I recognised danger ,rt the manufacture of PVC. 1 I 1 The impolicy in the men Dr. Walker lias seen could I he caused by the source o| the other symptoms, she says,-- but it could ulso jw* caused by their worry ing over their condition. No one at the Slavclcv Pint or at Vinatex head quarters at Havant, Hants could be contacted" yester day for comment. 1 Workers at the Stavchy * plant had no doubt that the : symptoms their colleagues ' are suffering from were' i fi t t n na a w n uVs n MCl n n caused by the works, a union official said last might Mr. Bill Mitchell, district j secretary of the Amal gamate^ Union of Engineer ing Workers, howevev, thought the symptoms men I tioned were from the period ,.before rigid safety pr-cau- DOCTORS are puzzled by a mysierv illness affecting a `Lions wgre introduced. group Qf men working at a plastics factory--and which may have made some of them impotent. The men, aJI of whom have worked at the Vlnatex PVC plant at Men in direct contact i with PVC manufacture now have to wear safety masks and protective clou-*--' 13 R&S 105848 _____ _Stavelcy, near Chester- _'.:rz77-.. . ...... field, Derbyshire, have been subjected to ex ...... .... . " haustive tests for many G months. e ... -- ____________ ........ .. ............. -- _ ----------- -- -............... - -....... . .. . Some of them have been off work for up to a year. As well as the threat to their sex lives the men also complain of stiffening of the joints, bad circulation,, shortness -of breath and even impaired mental facul ties. Dr. Anne Walker, a consultant dermatologist who examined 36 of the men said; "This is an extra ordinary new situation. "We cannot say how long the tests might take. Wc may not gel any further than we have at present." In the meantime the patients arc being treated. with steroid drugs, like Corlizonc. cSc. c E E C u Mtl t; its; E 0 K t It S a t u 1t 5 I a e i * k'.c- r> \ I I/.