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Pulmonary function and morbidity in textile mill workers
M D Ray1, K P Skandhan, Y B Mehta
1Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Government Medical College Surat, India.
Panminerva Medica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The study was conducted in a large cotton textile mill in Surat City. A selected number of 278 employees were evaluated for social, anthropological and pulmonary functions. No parameters except the period of exposure to dust reduced pulmonary function; it was statistically significant in the case of vital capacity and maximum breathing capacity. Out of 23.94% pulmonary morbidity observed, the byssinosis rate was 1.62.