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and that is that I find that radiologists known as little about -radiographs of pneumoconiosis as general physicians know about the clinical and physiological picture of pneumo coniosis*
eminent radiologist in London and he told me that the
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radiological side of the-pneumoconioses had been completely;
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worked out and there was no further 'cause to. do' any work in j
that subject at all. And when I got'down to.South Waxes, I
started studying literature*
Could I have the first slide, please? And this
is a brief summary of the sort of thing I found about tne j
systems of classification that had beemrtdely used in re- j
lation to coal miners, particularly in various countries.
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There was the original ILO classification with the three
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stages which were partly radiological and partly clinical;
there was the Miners South African Classification that some I authori had attempted to apply to coal miners with all tnesi elaborate, classifications here, mostly based on the site ofj
the -operation; the American Public Health Service classlfi-j
cation used in those excellent reports in the hard ana toTtj
coal miners, again with various elaborate subdivisions.
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Now, these ones here, and this side of the -:1a.-ran,
I know the real equivalents in these classifications,teca-s#
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