Learning on ScreenDust: 1. Medical Report
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Section Title
- Dust
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: The first of a three-part series of items about the effects of dust on working miners. It begins by explaining the problem in layman’s terms - what is now technically known as pneumoconiosis was formerly known as silicosis, ‘miner’s cough’ and even asthma, but it’s best described as dust disease.
It’s not at all uncommon for people to breathe in dust, particularly in urban areas, but underground the human body’s natural compensating mechanism can’t handle it. As a result, dust begins to accumulate in miners’ lungs, causing permanent damage.
The second half of the film introduces the research of the medical team at Llandough Hospital in Cardiff. Although they have yet to find a cure for dust disease, they now know enough to be able to recommend suitable preventative measures, including regular health screening of miners. - Keywords
- Health and medicine
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - bfi screenonline
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.
Documentary Film News Vol.7 No.65, May 1948, p62.
BFI Screenonline synopsis ID No.474525
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Commentator
- John Slater
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
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