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Pneumoconiosis in pottery workers and its trends in North Staffordshire from the point of view of the Medical Boarding Centre (Respiratory Diseases), Stoke-on-Trent / A.K. Chatterjee

Este artículo pertenece a una ponencia del Joint Symposium on Health and Safety in the Ceramic Industries, celebrado en North Staffordshire Medical Institute, Stoke-on-Trent, los días 10 y 11 de septiembre de 1987

Sumario: Review of the newly diagnosed cases of pneumoconiosis in pottery workers in North Staffordshire as experienced by the Medical Boarding Centre , show that the number of such cases has dropped from the peaks of nearly 300 cases per year in the mid-1950s to about 10 cases per year in the last 12 years. The percentage of people aged 60 and above among the newly diagnosed cases has increased from 35% in the 1960s to about 70% in the 1980s. Only a minority of cases has been diagnosed following exposure under 20 years and most described exposure for over 30 years. As a point of interest, age at death of not strictly comparable groups of pottery workers at different times over the last 100 years has been compared

En: The Annals of occupational hygiene. - Oxford [etc.]. - nº 3, 1989 ; p. 369-374

1. Medicina laboral . 2. Enfermedades profesionales . 3. Vías respiratorias . 4. Neumoconiosis . 5. Enfermedades pulmonares . 6. Estadísticas . 7. Gran Bretaña . 8. Industria de la cerámica . I. Title. II. Título: The Annals of occupational hygiene.