Mortality in the Scottish Shale Oil Areas. Progress Report, March 30, 1984-March 29, 1985

摘要

The aim of this three-year project is to identify shale-related health hazards that may have been present in Scottish communities involved in the extraction and processing of oil shale up to 1962. Progress during the first eight months of the contract has been on schedule. Individual cause-specific records of all deaths in the small geographical areas of interest for 1963 through 1981, and for all cancer deaths for 1953 through 1962, have been re-arranged on Institute computer files. Estimation of corresponding risk-groups from decennial population census data is in progress and will be completed by March 1985. The post-1953 mortality data are now being supplemented with information on all-causes mortality in small areas from 1911 to 1930. This work will be completed by April 1985. Research has continued on the demographic history of the Scottish shale industry. Designations of shale-activity-specific small areas are being refined. The social environment in which the industry operated during the early part of this century is being documented. Progress has been satisfactory, and it is proposed that the work shold continue as planned. (ERA citation 10:015738)