Epithelioma and Non-Cancerous Oils

Scope and Content

Correspondence and papers relating to research into technical white oils. The file includes material relating to the Joint Advisory Committee of the Cotton Industry's second report on mule spinner's cancer (1951), and the Ministry of Labour's Mule Spinning (Health) Special Regulations, 1953 which required only technical white oils, animal and vegetable oils be used for oiling spindles.