Deep coal mining and meningococcal meningitis in England and Wales, 1931–38: ecological study, with implications for deep shaft mining activities worldwide

The hypothesized role of deep coal mining in the development of community-based outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis has gone largely unexplored. Taking the coalfields of Britain as a historical testbed, techniques of linear and binomial logistic regression were used to assess the association betwe...

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Main Authors: Smallman-Raynor, Matthew R., Cliff, Andrew D.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44703/