Lung Cancer in a Fluorspar Mining Community: I. Radiation, Dust, and Mortality Experience

• Published in: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Main Authors: Villiers, A. J. de, Windish, J. P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 1964
• Subjects: Articles; Coleman; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/21/2/94; https://doi.org/10.1136/oem.21.2.94

Since 1952 two to three deaths from primary cancer of the lung have occurred regularly each year among the male inhabitants of the small fluorspar mining community of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. These constituted 23 of the 51 deaths that occurred during the 10-year period 1952-61 among employees wit...