Reaction to fumes, dust
Two mild reactions by workers to fumes and dust in the air where they worked were among the occupational diseases reported to the Health Department last week.
Nasal symptoms from inhaling baking powder caused one of the reactions, and the other was a mild reaction to fumes from photographic developer. Dr W. A. Malpress. Medical Officer for. Health in Christchurch, said that both cases were idiosyncratic and were simply a mild , reaction to fumes and dust that had not affected anyone
else working in the same place or with the same substances. Eleven cases of noise-in-duced hearing loss were reported last week by Health Department officers testing the hearing of workers exposed to noise. The tests have been made for the last five years. Two cases of chronic lead absorption were also reported last week. Among the infectious diseases reported to the department were two cases of serum hepatitis, two of Campylobacter, and one of sab rrionella.
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