Dermatoses in Jute Workers
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Dermatoses in jute workers.
Although skin changes in workers associated with the manufacture of various textiles, especially cotton, have been the subject of numerous communications (e.g., Southam, 1927; Brockbank, 1941) there are few references in the literature to dermatoses in jute workers. Henry (1947) refers to one case of scrotal carcinoma in a jute worker out of a total of 1,421 notifications to the Factory Inspect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1955
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.12.1.36