Pneumoconiosis, coalmine dust and the PFR.

To celebrate BOHS’s 50th anniversary this year, we are reproducing in our on-line edition ‘classic papers’ from the past, with accompanying commentaries in the print and on-line edition. For this issue, the classic paper does not come from the Annals itself, but from the proceedings of one of the symposia on inhaled particles which BOHS organized about every five years from 1960 onwards. [The series was reviewed by Corbett McDonald (2001), ‘The quintessence of dust’, Ann Occ Hyg 45: 171–3.] The paper representing this series is Jacobsen M, Rae S, Walton WH, Rogan JM, The relationship between pneumoconiosis and dust-exposure in British coal mines. In Walton WH, editor. Inhaled Particles III. Old Woking: Unwin Bros, 1971, pp. 903–19. One of our commentators, Michael Attfield,was a member of the research team that did this work.