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Br J Ind Med 1967;24:13-25 doi:10.1136/oem.24.1.13
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Ventilatory Function in Relation to Mining Experience and Smoking in a Random Sample of Miners and Non-miners in a Witwatersrand Town1

  1. G. K. Sluis-Cremer,
  2. L. G. Walters,
  3. H. S. Sichel
  1. aMiners' Medical Bureau, the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the Operational Research Bureau, Johannesburg

      Abstract

      The ventilatory capacity of a random sample of men over the age of 35 years in the town of Carletonville was estimated by the forced expiratory volume and the peak expiratory flow rate.

      Five hundred and sixty-two persons were working or had worked in gold-mines and 265 had never worked in gold-mines.

      No difference in ventilatory function was found between the miners and non-miners other than that due to the excess of chronic bronchitis in miners.

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      • ↵1 This study was carried out under the auspices of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

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