MORTALITY STUDY OF BLEACHERS AND DYERS

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Abstract
Anxiety still remains in the bleaching and dyeing industry about possible contact with carcinogenic substances. A trade union had preserved approximately 1500 death certificates relating to workers in the industry who were employed prior to 1936 and died between 1957 and 1968. A proportional mortality study has not revealed a significant excess of deaths for cancer in general or cancer of bladder in particular. The chief limitation of the investigation is that death certificates for earlier periods are not available; deaths from carcinoma of the bladder of occupational origin may occur earlier than non-occupational cancers, knowledge of these deaths might have altered the generally reassuring picture given by this study.

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