Intervention studies of cotton steaming to reduce biological effects of cotton dust. Previous exposure chamber studies had suggested that steaming cotton could reduce significantly the levels and the biological effects of cotton dust. Therefore an intervention study using a high capacity steamer was designed to test the effectiveness of this process in a single cotton mill. The mill population ...

IT is a pleasure to have the opportunity of reviewing a Government Publication which is a report to the Minister of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland, by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Queen's University of Belfast. It is the story, clearly and succinctly narrated, of a scientific survey into an important industrial hazard by Professor Pemberton and members of...

Khogali, M. (1969). Brit. J. industr. Med., 26, 308-313. A population study in cotton ginnery workers in the Sudan. An epidemiological study in cotton ginneries in the Sudan covered 323 permanently employed ginnery workers, a random sample of 35 seasonal farfara workers, and a control group of 24 members of a fire brigade. All the workers studied were men. The study showed a prevalence of byssi...

OBJECTIVES To document the prevalence of work related ocular (eyeWRI) and nasal (noseWRI) irritation in workers in spinning mills of cotton and synthetic textile fibres and to relate the prevalence of symptoms to atopy, byssinotic symptoms, work history, and measured dust concentrations in the personal breathing zone and work area. METHODS A cross sectional study of 1048 cotton workers and 40...

A follow-up study of lung function tests and dust measurements was undertaken in ginnery workers employed in five ginning factories. Respiratory symptoms and respiratory function tests (FEV1 and FVC) were first recorded in 1967 on a total of 382 workers (323 permanently employed ginnery workers, 35 seasonal farfara workers, and 24 fire brigade men as controls). In 1969 after a six-month break f...

Molyneux, M. K. B., and Tombleson, J. B. L. (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27, 225-234. An epidemiological study ofrespiratory symptoms in Lancashire Mills, 1963-66. An epidemiological study of card and blowroom workers in 14 cotton spinning and two man-made fibre spinning mills in Lancashire has been carried out on a prospective basis of six-monthly examinations over three years. The number o...