Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view / by Thomas Oliver.

  • Oliver, Thomas, Sir, 1853-1942.
Date:
[1908]
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    4*5 Brooklyn Bridge, condition of workers on the, 94, 97 Brouardel, Professor, on tubercu- losis, 13 Brown, Dr. Sanger, his report of a case of coal-gas poisoning, 71 Brown-Sequard, his experiments upon animals with expired air, 56 Brunei, caissons used by, 94 Bryant and May’s Match Works, health of workers in, 51 Buhr stone, workers in, 306 Burroughs, Mr. W. J., 384 Burslem, pottery works at, 158 Byesson, on the effects ©f mus- cular work, 9 Byssinosis, 247 C Caermarthen, tin-plate mills at, 239 Cahen, M., use of sesquisulphide of phosphorus for matches dis- covered by, 49 Caissons, described, 88 ; effect on workers when entering the air- lock, 89; condition of work in, 90; the lighting of, 90; condi- tion of workers on leaving the air-lock, 91, 92 ; those used by the Cleveland Bridge Co. described, 92,93 ; “compressed- air illness” from working in, 93-5; causes of illness con- sidered, 96-108 Calcutta, jute industry in, 255 Calmette, on pneumokoniosis, 245 Cancer, its relation to injury, 24 ; death-rate from, in chimney- sweeps, 262 ; workers in coal- oil and tar subject to, 383 Carbon monoxide, poisonous ef- fects of, 58, 59 ; given off by blast furnaces, 60-62; symp- toms and pathology of poison- ing by, 63 ; penetration of, into dead bodies considered, 64-6 ; acclimatisation of living bodies to, 66-8 Carbonic acid gas, considered, S4-8. 97 Cardier, Major, 411 Carpathian Mountains, petrol springs in the, 85 Cartell, on carbonic acid poison- ing, 55 Caspari, on mountain climbing, 116 Cataract, glass-blowers subject to, 379 Cerro de Pasca, copper-mines at, 118 Chalicosis, 247 Chamberlain, Mr.,Miners’ Phthisis Commission appointed by, 279 Charcot, his opinion on lead palsy, 209 Charvet’s, Messrs., laundries in Paris, 392 Chassevant, A., on the effect of carbon bisulphide on the blood, 78 ; his experiments upon ani- mals with benzine, 84 Chavigny, P., “ Diagnostic des Maladies Simulees,” by, 31 Chemical trades, illness among workers of, 120-29 Chimney sweep’s cancer, 262 Chinese labourers in South Africa, death-rate among, 289, 291, 292 Chloride of lime, manufacture of, 120 Chloride of sodium, skin eruption caused by, 123 Clay, Dr. John, 26 Cleveland Bridge Company, their work on the Tyne, 92, 93 Coach-painters, health of, 187 Coal-gas, asphyxiation by, 71 Coal-mines, improved ventilation of, 267 ; phthisis among workers considered, 268-72 ; ailments of workers, 273, 274; explosions in, 400-403 ; rescue apparatus considered, 404-408; rescue training, 409 Coal-tar, health of workers in, 382-84 Compressed air in caissons de- scribed, 88; proper supply of, considered, 91-3 ; illness aris- ing from working in, 93-6; causes of illness from, con- sidered, 96-108 Cope Bros., Messrs., tobacco works of, 264