Rheumatic Complaints in an Urban Population
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Rheumatic complaints in an urban population.
During a recent study of rheumatic complaints among coal-miners, the incidence of similar complaints in the general population of a Lancashire town was investigated, and information was collected about occupational, climatic, and other possible factors which might be related to these complaints. Details of the method of survey and its completeness have already been discussed (Lawrence and Aitke...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.12.1.5