Relationships between dust level and byssinosis and bronchitis in Lancashire cotton mills

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Berry, G., Molyneux, M. K. B., and Tombleson, J. B. L. (1974). British Journal of Industrial Medicine,31, 18-27. Relationships between dust level and byssinosis and bronchitis in Lancashire cotton mills. A prospective survey of workers in 14 cotton and two man-made fibre spinning mills was carried out. A questionnaire on respiratory symptoms was completed at the start of the survey by 1 359 cotton workers and 227 workers in man-made fibre mills and again two years later by about half of these workers. Dust measurements were available for 772 women and 234 men cotton workers.

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