[Respiratory organ morbidity in workers at a poultry plant]

A tendency was revealed towards increase of temporary loss of working capacity due to diseases of the respiratory organs related mainly to acute processes. Workers smoking and contacting with poultry complain more frequently of changes in respiratory function. The main bulk of patients with chronic bronchitis was found only by the questionnaire. In heavy smokers the combined form of ventilatory failure was most pronounced in chronic unspecific pulmonary diseases which indicates the importance of prophylactic treatment.