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This makes me think of Victorian era chimney sweeps—usually young boys, who would be able to fit into chimneys, often naked—who would often get a specific cancer on their testicles, known as soot wart, or chimney sweep’s cancer. Cue Mary Poppins 
https://twitter.com/tongbingxue/status/1327201908629520385
https://twitter.com/tongbingxue/status/1327201908629520385
The practice of using young boys to do the task was outlawed in Britain in 1875. But in the United States, black male children were bought from their owners as slaves & made to do the job after 1875.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps%27_carcinoma
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps%27_carcinoma
Chimney sweep’s carcinoma was the first ever reported form of occupational cancer—by Dr Percival Potts in 1775.
Other occupational diseases include mule spinners’ cancer, caused by shale oil, Mad hatter disease, caused by mercury poisoning, & of course, radium poisoning.
Other occupational diseases include mule spinners’ cancer, caused by shale oil, Mad hatter disease, caused by mercury poisoning, & of course, radium poisoning.
Coal workers got black lung disease—coalworker's pneumoconiosis—& is still happening today, in China (linking back to the original image that started this thread) & in other countries. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1438463913000448
‘...only 19% of the 6 million coal workers suffering from pneumoconiosis had received compensation... as of the end of 2014... Coal workers with black lung has become the most crucial health problem in China in the early 21st century’
Article from 2015. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/907788.shtml
Article from 2015. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/907788.shtml
How good is coal
