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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 workshon* B nta] for year }932 contains a short section on hel- -
winch replaces the usual detailed report of the Senior Medical I ~ spector of Factories. This year marks the hundredth annivetJ-
fo lW ! a PPm tm ent of the first Government inspectors of f-ietorv, P?ssaf e of -the Factory Act of 1S33, and a l a n 4 ^
of t h e ^ ^ a r t m e n t ^ 01^0 ^lven 10 ^ ^ c a l reviews of the developing;
Special investigations of health hazards made during the vear
II ir i ef a stad7 of the effects of trichlorethylene (which h a s c o f f i n
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u 6 dry-cleanmg establishments and for degreasing' sTMfi&r cl?3e observation of plants in which there
of carbon-tetrochloride as a cleaning agent. Cases of toxic iaiimli-
from arsemuretted hydrogen evolved from wetting dross containi"'
aluminum arsenide were also investigated. Dust studies were m*v
~ ^ 4 ^ w ^ 2^T^'"~TP' ^ i ^ ' as ^ t.osJ!beE t o ^ t R ^ r a ad h lc : i o g i ^ D s qf .a rai wayJunrie^und in the malting industry wher-
S w " a ^ T b i PiCtUr? bronchitis peribronchial fihrSs, ,
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A f T investigator m this industry foimd that other fer-
Sivsicnl pffni' i ame y,' Janatlons m temperature and the stremm,. i demanded were contributing causes. A preliminarr
m quiry was made of workers exposed to the dust of basic slag ar.u
Hai ? J ^ tlgan 0nS T 6" 5 aIs0 carned n t in plants manufacturing
n S J n r ilf ?*WherI
exPosure to manganese dioxide an :
la c q u e r^ lt3' ^ f theffeCtS n healih of exposure to cellule-
i J ^ n T br / -Cif CS of d*36336 restating from the use of the more
im portant industrial poisons reported in 1932 under the factory ana
lead paint acts are shown in table 1.
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Tab l ---cases of poisoning REservice ! n Tor? BRmsH factory inspecto v
Disease
Lead poisoning..................... M ercury poisoning_______ Arsenic poisomn?............... Carbon-bisulphide poisoning! Aniline poisoning____ Toxic jaundice.................. Epitbeliomatous ulceration... Chrome ulceration.____ A n th ra x .......................I II II I I*
T otal..........................
Males
females
Total
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Df*~*
173 20
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2
1
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3
131 44
65 15
12
1
1
416 65 22
3 1S22 --- 24 3
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