Relationship between dust level and byssinoiss and bronchitis in Lancashire cotton mills.

(1974). 18-27. A prospective survey of workers in 14 cotton and two man-made fibre spinning mills was carried out.

A survey of respiratory disease in cotton operatives. II. Symptoms, dust estimations, and the effect of smoking habit.

48-53. In association with a survey of cotton workers dust levels were measured in 11 of the mills. Levels varied from 1·15 mg/m to 4·8 mg/m excluding fly.

A survey of respiratory disease in cotton operatives. I. Symptoms and ventilation test results.

42-47. Between 1966 and 1968, 2 316 operatives were examined in the blow and card rooms of the south-east Lancashire coarse cotton industry. Between 1968 and 1970, a second survey of 2 556 operatives was carried out including 886 of the previous group and also operatives in fine and coarse cardrooms, in ring and winding rooms, and operatives in other parts of the country who were not examined previously.

A study of the acute and chronic changes in ventilatory capacity of workers in Lancashire cotton mills.

25-36. A prospective study of workers in 14 cotton and two man-made fibre spinning mills in Lancashire was carried out over a three-year period. A questionnaire on respiratory symptoms was completed at the start of the survey and again two years later.

An epidemiological study of respiratory symptoms in Lancashire mills, 1963-66.

225-234. An epidemiological study of card and blowroom workers in 14 cotton spinning and two man-made fibre spinning mills in Lancashire has been carried out on a prospective basis of six-monthly examinations over three years. The number of operatives to be included was decided so as to give a sufficient sample for the statistical assessment of fall in FEV, at the same time allowing for population movement.

SKIN CARCINOMA IN THE PROCESS OF "STANFORD JOINTING".

Three cases of squamous carcinoma resulting from exposure to mineral oil in the process of treatment of pipes known as `Stanford jointing' are described, being the first to be noted in this process. The process itself is described with illustrations, and attention is drawn to the importance of realizing that such cases may occur in industrial processes where there is considerable exposure to mineral oil.