Postby Technomancer » Thu Jun 03, 2004 8:20 am
Health Canada puts Ontario's rate at 400 per 100,000 (.4%). However, it's difficult to drawn nay meaningful geographical conclusions without access to data sampled at a finer level (e.g. census district). This would be especially true of a province as large and geographically diverse as Ontario. I would expect the rate to increase in some localities though, especially in those places heavily dependant on metal processing (like where I am right now, where there are three steel mills in operation).
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