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FILE NAME: Sprayed Asbestos (SPRA) DATE: 1933 DOC#: SPRA002
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: UK Govt Report - Industrial Diseases and Poisoning in British Factories, 1932
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HEALTH AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
Industrial Diseases and Poisoning in British Factories, 1932
TP ? f t he chief inspector of factories and workshop B n ta TM for year 1932 contains a short section on he^l- wmch replaces the usual detailed report of the Senior Medical I ~ spector of Factories. This year marks the hundredth an n iv el!-
a PP?mtment of the first Government inspectors of f-ictorv. I f t S n r P?;ssa |e of the Factory Act of 1833, and a l a r 4 ^
of th e ^ lm a rtm e n t^ 01^ ^lven 10 ^ ^ c a l reviews of the developing.;
Special investigations of health hazards made during the vear
a s t f Y of the effects of trichlorethylene (which h a s c o f f i n y c t e n d e d u se m dry-cleaning establishments and for degreasing'
a s f ^ a r close observation of plants in which there of carbon-tetrochlonde as a cleaning agent. Cases of toxic iaumlifrom arsemuretted hydrogen evolved from wetting dross containr-aluminum arsenide were also investigated. Dust studies were m*v
~ ^ 4 ^ w ^ 2^T^'"~TP' ^ i ^ ' as ^ t.osJ!beE ^ i ^ D s qf .a rai wayJunriel^Tnd in the malting industry wher-
bronchitis peribronchial fihrS s, ,
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A f T investigator m this industry foimd th a t other fer-
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? ameIy,' J am tlo n s m .temperature and the stremm,. demanded were contributing causes. A preliminarr
m quiry was made of workers exposed to the dust of basic slag ar.u
d tv `Haf ? J ^ tlgan nS T 6" 5 aIs carned out in plants manufacturing U Wherf tJiel e YY exposure to manganese dioxide an :
la c q u e r^ lt3' ^ f theffeCtS n health of exposure to cellule-
im T !^ ni^ bur / -C^SeS of disease residting from the use of the moo*
im portant industrial poisons reported in 1932 under the factory ana
lead paint acts are shown in table 1.
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Table 1 .-C A S E 3 OF POISONING REs e r v ic e ! n Tor? B R m s H f a c t o r y in spec tt i v
D isease
Lead poisoning..................... M ercury poisoning_______ Arsenic poisomn?............... Carbon-bisulphide poisoning! Aniline poisoning____ Toxic jaundice.................. J " ! Epitbeliomatous ulceration... Chrome ulceration.____ A n th ra x ...................... III II I I*
T o tal..........................
Males
females
T o tal
Cases D eaths Cases D eaths Cases
173
20
9
2
1
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3
131
44
65
12
15
1
1
416
65
22
3
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24 3
131
16
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