Here are the answers. No-one got all the answers right, though Dr Alan
Swann came extremely close.
With best wishes to all subscribers,
Bashyr
1. Name the 19/20th Century Occupational Health Physician who features on a
postage stamp?
Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970)
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/hamilton-a.html
2. Who, in OH terms, were the canaries? (This has nought to do with goin'
down th' pits).
Women who worked in ammunitions factories during WWI who became jaundiced
from exposure to TNT and sulphur. There's an excellent account of a
medical report on this in "The Social History of Occupational Health"
edited by Paul Weindling, 1985.
3. What does Bilbao, the location of the European Occupational Safety and
Health Agency, got in common with Las Vegas, New York, Venice and Berlin?
Guggenheim Museusm
4. The Health for All by 2000 declaration was signed at Alma-Ata in 1978.
Where is Alma-Ata?
Khazakhstan, previously in the Soviet Union.
5. Which is the odd one out, and why? a. castor bean dust, b. lead, c.
isocyanates, d. penicillin, e. glutaraldehyde.
Lead. All the others are respiratory sensitisers.
6. Which is the odd one out and why? a. hay fever, b. kleptomania, c.
asthma, d. tattoos, e. voyeurism.
Asthma. All others are exceptions for DDA.
7. Can you match up the following 'effects' to 'causative agents'? a.
byssinosis, b. phossy jaw, c. the blue or Burtonian line, d. erethism and
muscle tremors, e. argyrism.
A. cotton, b. phosphorus, c. lead, d. mercury, e. silver.
8. "The work people are less thought of than the machinery: the latter is
frequently examined to ascertain its capabilities - the former is scarcely
ever." Whose words are these?
Charles Turner Thackrah (1795 - 1833)
9. Who said "If you can bring an influence to bear external to the workman
(ie one over which he can exercise no control) you will be successful; and
if you cannot or do not, you will never be wholly successful."
Sir Thomas Morison Legge (1868 - 1932)
10. Finally, who said, "Many workers are intelligent, cooperative and good
witnesses. Although some may be deaf, disconsolate, forgetful, obtuse,
garrulous, or monosyllabic, the worker is still the best witness of what
happened."
Donald Hunter (1898 - 1978).
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