Note on the South Wales Coal-Field

Hand injuries in south Wales coal miners.

Fifty eight coal miners attended the Royal Gwent Accident and Emergency Department with serious hand injuries over a three year period. The commonest cause of the injuries was falling rock or coal from the pit roof crushing the hand and the commonest type of injury was the crushed, compound fracture of the terminal phalangeal area of the digit, with or without pulp loss. Records of the time off...

Primary lung cancer in South Wales coal-workers with pneumoconiosis.

Coal-workers in the southern part of Wales are particularly prone to pulmonary disease due to the inhalation of coal dust. In some men discrete foci of dust are scattered more or less uniformly throughout both lungs. This is called simple pneumoconiosis. In others there occur also one or more large localized masses of dust and dense fibrous tissue (Fig. 1). This manifestation is referred to as ...

Labour Productivity in the British and South Wales Coal Industry, 1874-1914

Labour Productivity in the British and South Wales Coal Industry, 1874-1914 Author(s): Barry T. Hirsch and William J. Hausman Reviewed work(s): Source: Economica, New Series, Vol. 50, No. 198 (May, 1983), pp. 145-157 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The London School of Economics and Political Science and The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disc...

Respiratory ill health among coal miners and telecommunication workers in south Wales.

As part of a large cross sectional epidemiological study of respiratory disease in coalminers, the respiratory health of miners in one colliery in south Wales has been compared with the health of nearby telecommunication (telecom) workers. The studies were carried out in 1981 and 1982. The answers to questionnaires on respiratory symptoms and results of lung spirometry indicate a much greater f...

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