Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1905 — Out and Consumption. [ARTICLE]

Out and Consumption.

Dusty work seems to he responsible for consumption to a marked degree. In 2,161 cases of consumption treated at the sixty institutions of the German empire 1,095 patients had been employed in a dusty environment The kind of dust was not stated in 431 cases; in 182 cases it was metal dust; in 129, stone, coal or glass dust; in 118, wood dust; in 111, wool dust and In 126, various other kinds of dust