It is estimated that there are 21,000 of those miners suffering fromsilicosis.
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Medical reports state that they, too, are contractingsilicosisfrom the dust.
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There is also greater difficulty in identifying thesilicosisof slate quarrymen.
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In days gone by we had a long struggle to getsilicosisestablished as an industrial disease.
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Pneumoconiosis is the disease caused in miners by coal dust, and which used to be known assilicosis.
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The medical board said that it was notsilicosisbut bronchitis and asthma.
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They have been connected with a coalfield where the incidence ofsilicosis, as it was known, and now of pneumoconiosis, has been very high indeed.
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It is a certain aspect of the pneumoconiosis andsilicosiscases which arose in 1922.
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In my constituency there are many who suffer fromsilicosis, pneumoconiosis and emphysema.
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Many miners have sufferedsilicosiswho would not contract that disease today because of the special measures taken against it.
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After years of neglect we have now begun to give some attention to the disease which prevails in mining districts, known assilicosis.
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I remember the dreadful effect whichsilicosishad on the workers in that area, workers from my own as well as other families.
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Another reason in connection with this industry is that dreadful disease which was referred to so often here yesterday and this morning ofsilicosis.
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It is the dread fear of that terrible scourge of both coalmining and slate quarrying—the disease ofsilicosisor pneumoconiosis as it is now called.
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Asbestosis is a case in point, or it could well besilicosisor a similar disease.
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