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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1989

IN HIS SPEECH, DR LEE SAID THAT PNEUMOCONIOSIS MOST COMMON OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE IN HONG KONG.

WAS STILL THE

EACH YEAR, ABOUT 170 TO 180 NEW CASES OF SILICOSIS, PNEUMOCONIOSIS, WERE REPORTED.

REMARKABLE

TECHNICAL

A TYPE

OF

IN ADVANCES

THE

"

DR LEE SAID.

"THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CONSTRUCTION AND QUARRYING INDUSTRIES IN RECENT YEARS,

SOURCE. CONTROL ALTOGETHER, THUS REDUCING

"THE MODERN METHODS USED NOW SUPPRESS DUST AT ITS EMISSION OR ENCLOSE THE DUSTY PROCESS THE HAZARDS OF DUST."

HOWEVER,

AS DISEASE IN THE

HE SAID,

THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY PNEUMOCONIOSIS REMAINED THE MOST COMMON OCCUPATIONAL TERRITORY.

"PUBLIC HEALTH IS PUBLIC WEALTH" * HEALTH OF THE WORKFORCE IS IMPORTANT IN OF THE COMMUNITY."

HE SAID. "THE PROMOTION OF INCREASING THE PRODUCTIVITY

DR LEE SAID THE PROMOTION SOLELY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

OF

OCCUPATIONAL

HEALTH

WAS

NOT

OF THE "TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE, ALL EFFORTS OF HEALTH EDUCATION

THE EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEE WORKFORCE MUST HAVE THE ESSENTIAL SUPPORT OF AND THE GOVERNMENT," HE SAID.

THE PAST TWO BY THE

THE EXHIBITION, THE THIRD OF ITS KIND STAGED IN YEARS, IS ORGANISED BY THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT AND CO-ORGANISED OSHC.

ILLUSTRATING THE VARIOUS IT FEATURES PHOTOGRAPHS AND SAMPLES

INCLUDING SILICOSIS. ASBESTOSIS, OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES AND HAZARDS,

SOLVENT AND GAS AS CONTACT DERMATITIS, POISONING CAUSED BY ORGANIC WELL AS DEAFNESS CAUSED BY NOISE.

INFORMATION VISITORS CAN TRY THE LUNG FUNCTION TEST AND OBTAIN

USED IN LOCAL INDUSTRIES FROM A

ON SOME 1.000 CHEMICALS COMMONLY COMPUTER TOXICOLOGY DATA BANK.

THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN FROM 10 AM TO 7 FM DAILY

UNTIL TUESDAY

(NOVEMBER 281.

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