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no lass than twenty-thousand personal home visits to ooor
people in the valley.
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This rather depressing picture shows the preva
lence of pneumoconiosis in the ex-miners and miners in the
valley. It shows there is quite a lot of pneumoconiosis,
study of simple pneumoconiosis here without fibrosis in
which the study of the attack rate and also quite a lot of
massive fibrosis to study too, enormous population there,
and the total nunbers in thi3 whole group are about nine
thousand.
How, this is quite a complicated on I do apolo
gize. The first point is that there is a logarithmic scale
and here I considered cases of infectious tuberculosis,
let's say, with a positive smear- on culture, cases of in- j
active tuberculosis, diagnosed on the radiograph as held inactive tuberculosis, and cases diagnosed as clinically
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active tuberculosis, let's say, cases requiring supervision*
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or in the cases where there is pneumoconiosis or massive
fibrosis, and we found none in Category 1 in which the
shadow looked like pneumoconiosis, but in many cases, on
the others, it was awfully difficult to call the thing
tuberculosis or massive fibrosis, so we put them here.
Ve have in category, infectious cases less than
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one percent, inactive tuberculosis and clinically signifi- i
cant cases. Coming into Category 1, there is practicably i
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