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DATE 1932
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DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Bulletin - Proceedings of Dust Conference
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EFFECTS OF DUSTS UPON
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16 MORNING SESSION
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16 AFTERNOON SESSION
Address of Dr. W. Irving Clark Medical Director of Norton
Company Worcester Massachusetts ---------
Discussion
Continuation of address of Dr. Gardner
Address of Donald E. Cummings Aasistant Director of Sar
anne Laboratory for Study of Tuberculosis
Discussion THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17 MORNIng Session
Discrission of addresses of Dr. Gardner and Mr. Cummings Address of Dr. H. S. Willis Pathologist of Wm H. Maybury
Sanatorium Detroit Michigan Address of J. J. Bloomfield Sanitary Engineer U. S. Public
Health Service
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THURSDAY November 17 ^ FTERNOONSession
Bureau Address of Dr. Albert
Russell Surgeon U. S.
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E. Mines
Discussion
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APPENDIC
APPENDIX Biographical sketches
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APPENDIX List of persons who attended conference 213
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This man was a slate worker His history is that he lived
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in the arva of this slate and that for most of his life aside
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from farming that had been his sole occupation The slate
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workers in one plant which we observed were not exposed
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3 quartz in the slate it used You will note in considering 20
slate that the silica content of slate varies in different areas
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so we can't say that slute has a definite amount of silica
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without determining it first The same holds true for gran-
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case as havi crasis their ar
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PER rays of the lungs from workers in one industry to those .
of another
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has a few pulmonary markings with quite a bit of fine
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workers one case who had an active tuberculosis He had
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ORT been in this slate mill about six years and apparently the
tuberculosis was just incidental and not a result of his
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had been working at the trade about six years I think and you will see he has fibrosis of both lungs The character of the fibrosis is quite a bit different from that of the gran-
This slide come under ti ever the den
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This is a graph showing classification of silicosis The
the lung He
first classifiention was made in South Africa They started
States Gover
out classifying their cases as primary and secondary stages and as they learned more about the disease they had to
eight years masks He
add to this classification They learned that they had a stage earlier than primary and it was called primary
which were y ing in the sua
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which position he held until 1919. He then entered the em-
ployment of the United States Public Health Service as
a member of the Staff of Service Hospital No. 26. at
Greenville South Carolina where he remained in service
specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis during 1920
and 1921. From 1922-2 inclusive Dr. Russell acted as
Assistant Chief of the Tuberculmis Hospital Section of the C. S. Veterans Burenu From 1921 90he was in
charge of Held studies us the health of workers in dusty trades for the United States Public Health Service In
1930 he was appointed as official representative of the
United States at the International Silicosis Conference at the League of Nations at Johannesburg South Africa of which he acted us Chairman In 1930 he hevame
Chief Surgeon of the U. S. Bureau of Mines
Dr. Russell has made numerous contributions to medical
magazines and has written many reports for the U. 8
Public Health Service covering particularly the field of
pulmonary diseases and more specifically those disease'S
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