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Mule Spinners' Cancer: the Time necessary for its Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

S. A. Henry
S. A. Henry
Affiliation:
(H.M. Medical Inspector of Factories, Manchester.)
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In view of the number of cases of epidermal cancer, especially cancer of the scrotum, which have occurred amongst cotton mule spinners within recent years, constituting this the foremost occupational cancer in our country, it may be opportune to investigate the exact duration of employment in the mule rooms that would seem to be necessary before the disease manifests itself. How long must the individuals be exposed to the action of the cancerinducing influence before the cancerous response is elicited? The Departmental Committee on Mule Spinners' Cancer having found that the “influence” or agent in this case is mineral oil, which Leitch has proved experimentally to have cancer-producing properties, how long does it take to act?

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , August 1928 , pp. 100 - 104
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

References

Page 100 note 1 Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to consider Evidence as to the Occurrence of Epitheliomatous Ulceration among Mule Spinners. H.M. Stationery Office, 1926. Price 1s. net.

Page 100 note 2 An examination of the Register of the Parish of Bathgate, which is the earliest centre of the Scottish shale oil industry, for the period 1860–1880 revealed 3 deaths from cancer which are of interest: (1) 23. viii. 1870, male, 39, chemical works labourer, epithelial cancer in the groin. Haemorrhage (2 years). (2) 17. ii. 1875, male, 46, oil works labourer, cancer of stomach (6 months). (3) 2. ix. 1878, male, 59, oil works labourer, epithelial cancer of scrotum and glands of groin (12 months).

Bell, Joseph (1876–1877), Edinburgh Med. Journ. 22, 135, described two cases of paraffin epithelioma of the scrotum in labourers in oil works.