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FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR DATE 1959 Dec 4 DOC CSR233 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to A.B.A. Ltd. from The Mines Medical Officer RE Workers with Lung Damage . + woe HALGOORLIE HALGOORLIE HALGOORLIE HALGO HALGO OORLIR E L HALGORLII E HAE LGO RLIE 4th 4th December December December 1959 1959 examined i properly made from 11 examined Thilst son often alight dise this was excluded e health of the workers that no new case many exceptions appeared the health excellent of the workers No inferences number of workers who were speci- were included in whom there was some expect evidence of industrial chest clinically It is also true to say that appeared appeared much better than in 1956 and industrial disease was revealed are a number of workers approxi- considerable lung damage directly Wittenocm All of these cases of Nal employedworkers exposure who disease compared suffered most comparably worked occured after a relatively short in the mines in the old Mill and it is much too to assess what hazard if any exists in the new Mill Although conditions conditions underground have been a few unexpected these workers appear superficiallysuperficially very good there cases of industrial chest disease among investigated By and large I was favourably impressed by the particular feel old working conditionshazardbut I that there is a and a hazard which has not yet been or remedied The transfer from the to the particular problem fully new Hill has has re- moved some of the urgency Commissioner A report is being composed for submission to the Public Health Commissioner Commissioner Yours faithfully faithfully Nye ( Sgd Sgd McNultyMcNulty MEDICAL OFFICER MINES MINES MEDICAL MEDICAL OFFICER