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all we could hear, but very low certified incidence.
We hoped there to get a real contrast between the
conditions In bituminous and anthracite mines in South Wales
and the general relationship between dustiness and rank out
side South Vales, to get mines which were really dusty
but had low rank coals, and those are the two.
Now, this slide is attributed to Doctor Cochran,
jthB percentage of the underground-surface populations wnich
he has managed to X-ray in each of those mines are given
there, and the only two cases, in this mine here and here,
in which he was. not fully in charge of the survey, there
were early surveys, is the proportion below ninety-eight
percent.
The important aspect of that i's shown in two
figures -- next slide. At these two collierys where we
didn't get ninety-eight percent of the population, you will
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see that the proportion varies with age. The statisticians!
found difficulty in the casually young, and in the equally ;
old* .The middle-age you get easier. If you don't get
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ninety-five percent you get seventy-five percent; both of
these collierys you got over seventy-five percent of the j-
population, but youfve got a distorted sample. It is es
sential to get a hundred percent population.
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The next slide -- and one colliery where he got
a hundred percent. Doctor Cochran analyzed the amount of