Airborne micro-organisirns and prevalence of byssinotic symptoms in cotton mills

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Abstract
The concentration of airborne microbes, their endotoxins and the prevalence of byssinotic symptoms among workers were measured in the cardrooms of seven cotton spinning, a wool spinning and two cotton waste mills and in a dusty workroom of a group of five willowing mills, a tea-packing plant and a pipe tobacco factory. The concentration of microbes cultured on endoagar plates were found to correlate with byssinosis prevalence (r>0.95, P0.77, P<0.01) and that of fungi and endotoxins not at all.

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