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Research Article

• Trends in death, disablement, and sickness absence in the British Post Office since 1981. (1 February, 1982)

  P J Taylor, J Burridge
• Incidence of treated alcoholism in north-east Scotland, Orkney, and Shetland fishermen, 1966-70. (1 February, 1982)

  K J Rix, D Hunter, P C Olley
• Mortality of flax workers. (1 February, 1982)

  P C Elwood, H F Thomas, P M Sweetnam, J H Elwood
• Studies of the occupational exposure of Malaysian plantation workers to paraquat. (1 February, 1982)

  G Chester, B H Woollen
• Mortality of female gas mask assemblers. (1 February, 1982)

  B K Wignall, A J Fox
• Mortality patterns of rock and slag mineral wool production workers: an epidemiological and environmental study. (1 February, 1982)

  C F Robinson, J M Dement, G O Ness, R J Waxweiler
• Development of radiological and clinical evidence of parenchymal fibrosis in men with non-malignant asbestos-related pleural lesions. (1 February, 1982)

  G H McMillan, C E Rossiter
• Comparison of independent randomised reading of radiographs with direct progression scoring for assessing change in asbestos-related pulmonary and pleural lesions. (1 February, 1982)

  G H McMillan, C E Rossiter, R Deacon
• Concentrations and characteristics of amphibole fibres in the lungs of workers exposed to crocidolite in the British gas-mask factories, and elsewhere, during the second world war. (1 February, 1982)

  A Morgan, A Holmes
• Acute and subacute symptoms among workers in the printing industry. (1 February, 1982)

  J Baelum, I Andersen, L Mølhave
• Exploratory electromyography in the study of vibration-induced white finger in rock drillers. (1 February, 1982)

  D S Chatterjee, D D Barwick, A Petrie
• Dupuytren's contracture in manual workers. (1 February, 1982)

  B Bennett