PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - E D Acheson
AU  - M J Gardner
AU  - E C Pippard
AU  - L P Grime
TI  - Mortality of two groups of women who manufactured gas masks from chrysotile and crocidolite asbestos: a 40-year follow-up
AID  - 10.1136/oem.39.4.344
DP  - 1982 Nov 01
TA  - British Journal of Industrial Medicine
PG  - 344--348
VI  - 39
IP  - 4
4099  - http://oem.bmj.com/content/39/4/344.short
4100  - http://oem.bmj.com/content/39/4/344.full
SO  - Br J Ind Med1982 Nov 01; 39
AB  - ABSTRACT Two groups of women were exposed to asbestos while manufacturing gas masks in Lancashire before and during the second world war. One group (in Blackburn) is believed to have been concerned almost exclusively with the manufacture of civilian respirators (containing chrysotile) while the other (in Leyland) made respirators for the armed Forces (containing crocidolite) and a much smaller number of civilian respirators. Excess mortality ascribed to lung cancer and ovarian cancer were found at the second factory (statistically significant at the 1% level) but not at the first. Mesothelioma was mentioned on the death certificates of five women who had worked in Leyland and one woman in Blackburn.