Mortality in the Scottish shale oil areas. Progress report, March 30, 1985-June 30, 1986
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5991025
The aim was to identify possible shale-related health hazards by studying mortality in small areas of Scotland where the industry was concentrated before it closed in 1962. Completion of the second 12-month period has generated shale-activity-specific small area statistics of cancer mortality for the period 1953 through 1961; of cause-specific (including cancer) mortality for 1962 through 1981; and of general (all causes) mortality for 1911 through 1931. No unexpected shale-associated health hazards were identified. An apparent small excess general mortality among males resident in the shale areas during the 1950s and 1960s is being studied further in the continuing work. This includes birth cohort analyses and limited case-control studies of skin and bladder cancers.
- Research Organization:
- Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh (UK)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-84ER60199
- OSTI ID:
- 5991025
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/60199-2; ON: DE86008511
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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