Estimated average annual incidence rates of work related respiratory disease reported by chest and occupational physicians, UK, 1992–2001
| Disease | Chest physicians | Occupational physicians | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated total annual cases* | (%) | Average annual rate/million† | Estimated total annual cases* | (%) | Average annual rate/million‡ | |
| *Estimated from monthly samples; see text. | ||||||
| †Based on the national Labour Force Survey. | ||||||
| ‡Based on estimated employees served by occupational physicians. | ||||||
| Allergic alveolitis | 50 | (1.8) | 2 | 4 | (0.7) | 1 |
| Asthma | 616 | (22.0) | 22 | 281 | (47.0) | 87 |
| Benign pleural disease | 752 | (26.9) | 27 | 18 | (3.0) | 6 |
| Bronchitis | 55 | (2.0) | 2 | 14 | (2.3) | 4 |
| Infections | 45 | (1.6) | 2 | 15 | (2.5) | 5 |
| Inhalation accidents | 98 | (3.5) | 4 | 116 | (19.4) | 36 |
| Lung cancer | 104 | (3.7) | 4 | 2 | (0.3) | 1 |
| Mesothelioma | 733 | (26.2) | 27 | 21 | (3.5) | 7 |
| Pneumoconiosis | 282 | (10.1) | 10 | 20 | (3.3) | 6 |
| Other | 60 | (2.1) | 2 | 108 | (18.1) | 34 |
| Total | 2795 | (100) | 101 | 598 | (100) | 186 |