A profile of XXXX cases who died.

@entity1 @entity82 @entity5636 @entity3440
@entity5636 cases which had been notified by doctors and confirmed after investigations were followed up by the Industrial Health Division. Up to August 1981, a total of 313 @entity1 were confirmed as having the disease. Of these, 59 had died. The majority of these 59 @entity1 had had their @entity3440 exposure in the granite quarries. 13 had been exposed to "rubber powder" which contained a high percentage of free @entity3440 . 52 of those who died were male, and their average age at death was 60.87 years. This did not appear to be significantly shorter than their life expectancy of 65.1 years. But the average age of death for the 7 @entity1 was 58.86 years, which was much shorter than their life expectancy of 70 years. Many of the @entity1 died from causes unrelated to @entity5636 . But 6 of the 7 @entity1 had @entity82 ( @entity82 ) and they apparently died of the disease or complications arising from it.
