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912 Broadway Bayonne K.J. Dr.Robert A.Kehoe ,M .D. The Kettering Laboratory Eden Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. September 4.1954. Dear Doctor; . I have received you bind letter.I am glad tbat you teacb Industrial Medicine Cor ir ever it was needed it is now* I say this,for I have investigated many cases similar to mine and we are all unable to work or just damned rotten fakirs trying to shirk our duty. " I bave been iron doctor to doctor and all they do is take my money and will not certify tbat my illness is due to tbe inhalation of fumes and dusts. Even when the diagnosis prooves it. Fibrosis IS A SYNDROMS Ok MSTALIC POISONING. When these doctors know that I did not need medical attention before 1941,why do they doubt the fact that I inhaled both abrasive dusts and toxic fumes? I know the subject is controversial bpt I also feel if there is a doubt it should be on the side of the worker affected. The Bendiner reports. I was taken before Dr.Martland the noted pathologist and he on looking at the Lab reports told the doctor who took me there that there was a mistake. V/hat the mistake is 1 have not been told. Lead f ames so dense that the air was blue down two and three and lower decks where there was no ventilation what ever. The air was stagnant. Men who used blowers could not find enough tubing to, discharge the fumes into atmosphere and if they did rind the tubes the air resistance in the tubes would be so great as; to make the protable blower useless. They nearly always if they did fin'd a portable blower-discharge the fumes from one compartment, into another-where men were not working Often they would just leave the tuhes lay on the deck thinking that this method, would discharge the fumes. Me were told again and again that the fumes were harless as you will note in the file,. tT The Psychiatrists If seems .that when a doctor is stumped he sends his patient to a psyco and the psycho scares hell out of the victim so much-s^ that he gives up and saves his dough. One thing I cannot get straight in my head,is that,when I did see one /on my own hook)he asked me if I experienced nausea? I told him no.Yet many nights I wouold get up and take bi carbonate and spirin or lemon to keep from vomiting. The bed seemed to be low at the head. I tried it with levels etc.,to my wifes consternation and yet when the xtpsycho asked me if I found lying in position uncomfortabel I told him no. When he asked me if I vomited ^ said no.Yet I did so many times evenafter I tried to prevent it. - I went to Dr Wally.I told him the same things and then when I realized what I was doing I tried to convince him that something was wrong that I did . experience these things. Dr V/ally^as one could assume, looked upon the letfr with skeptieism. = Every doctor I go to it's chest and heart?Chest and Heart,nothing about the weakness I experience many times during the day the near blackouts from 'weakness and this past year I have sat down comming in from my rounds and really passed out.This often. Not a feint.Just close my eyes and nearhothing. Nothing about the weakness of my Muscles which could prbove lead damage and I have not yet been able to get near a neurologist or a toxicologist. Just as soon as I say welding fumes that is enough. yitals will not take me in ror observation or treatment of abrasive dusts inhalation of metalic fumes. Dr Bergsma of the N.J,Health Dept passes the mk. He did send a representative Dr Marie Senna-and she got out from under soon as she can. She promised to see that I got a copy of her report. It is a proccedure,yet I never heard from her nor do I get any responses to my mail other tha#. Dr 'B'ergsma will help any hospital tax in any Lab work they may ask him for. When I showed them,the hospitals,tie letter, they laughed and asked me why he did mot see I got to a hospital and got the aid he is pledged to give me. He will not designate a hospital that will take me in. The results are that I have heavier fibrosed lungs and a bad heart,My muscle are shot and one doctor suggested anemia. ^ There are so many pains and aekes that doctors laugh when you tell them of your experiences. If a guy is noyiCoo Koo he soon ought to be after receiving this kind of treatment from men who should be more serious. . Dr Jaffin in his report (in the file) takes a nastv'stab at me, I have never tried to to skin an insurance carrier'out or a nickel although on two occassions I did make it miserable for them. Once getting Gov.Al Smith to amend the compensation law of N.Y.after many hundreds of us were denied compensation pending the Insana Decision at Washington. /mro/zi - Dr Lanza.Has swell to me. He read two Xrays of the chest .Report in file. My teeth? The dentist took the impressions at different times I told him to take them at once while my jaws were set. I would get up looking like a chink n y ieyes slant or my face contorted. Result the uppers have broken three times because the bite is off and now X cement them tigether with adheis.ive tape, it workd. . The teeth mottled~I have saved. I have these Krays and exhibits. A Doctor Potter.Examined many Xrays taken by the T.3.Clinic. Every time the navy took one I contrived to get one at the T.B. realizing that if the navy tried to connive I would have the set at tbe Clinic for evidence. Dr Potter lost them as well as pelvis xrays thatoshowed markings that Drs could not diagnose. Some yearsl'IrnSL`pelvis Xrays taken again and the marking are still there but not so pronounced* -T& J* / /-oS7~ 7 se-r. I do have an Kray taken in 42 that shows there was a definite change in the years after. YThen I started to protest in the dispensaries at the navy yard and I had the attack where my vocal chords were badly frayed as if mice were cheawing on tm them(that is what Dr Beinberg said in describing my ailment) He put me to bed on quiet treatment.No talking not even whispering or I would loose my voice. ^ee his certificate File. Then the medical and the Hygiene depts started to wonder and from that time every man had periodical xrays The pipe coverers of whom I was one got one every six months. The sick passes in file were given to me and four other men who had to go to Brooklyn from Bayonne for five days with sputum and _7`T check ups. One had heart one was discharged with T.B, and I had an old pleur isy. The man with T.B. went up N.Y.State. I read where T.B.jSugs cannot survive under fluoride and wrote Gorker who gave it to his doctor and after more righd examinations it was decided Gorker uid not have T.B. See &is letters in file Health of Arc V"elders. This book was mentioned to me at the Marine Hospital. In the A.M.A.Journal9/ll/48 appeared an article page 156 boosting this book to the HighHeaveas. The Jourhal states that the book prooves that men are not made ill from welding fumes. Yet the book is full of apologies^or ignoring many vital tests and observations.I think I have properly reveied this book add will send you a copy of my review if you care for it. Nov/ take the Kaiser Ship yards investigation.Here is something very different Even these doctors apologise for not doing a thorough job bur the job they d M doy>v: s or such impott that thi state of Oregon changed their Comp Laws making Hancock 3 J j In Jersey we fought for all coverage but what gooa does it ao us after got iu? Either the doctors do not want to help us or in many more install ,es they do not know an industrial case when they see one. The law says they should report thses cases but thy don't. The U.S.State Dept states that less than 3fo increase in insurance damages hav. resulted since the changes in thenlaw of various states. No wonder. Now -L waxing pesi mist. You said you might be able to help me. Boy you got a mouth full.If you care to take the time to go thru this stuff. I am so serious about this,that I am accumulating data that;i hope soon to put in a:book for the benefit of laymen,men and women who are sick and do not know- why? Lets take Tricloroetheleyne This solvent is bad enough when used in tanks for cleaning but the other night used a drill press in the shop where I am a watchman and I find that the stuff is blended in with the cutting oil. Here we have finger contact as well as the heat ofi the drill sending q.p fumes. _ - i can send you the xrays 1 have^also the copy of the Kaiser shipyards invest igation of which there are two pages in the file page 24 and 24a. I can send you my teeth with the xrays of the$ while in my jaws. The rest you have in the file. I have indexed and crass indexed the contents for quick refference. Yvhat I want is a certificate that will state my condition is caused by close proximity to my work* __ You will note that Dr Halpin chief medical-examiner for the U,3.Employees Comp Comm.,states I was no-c a welder. I did not have to -be.We often held clamps etc for the welder totack.We worked right over him or near him. We worked on while the room was so full of smoke the welder would walk out for a blow and come back when the atmosphere was cleared up-Hav ? Mostly by filtration thru the lungs of the mechanics,tin smiths,pipefitters, carpenters,painters etc.,working in the compartments. I have submitted certificate after certificate and all the response I get is similar to pages 61 62 & 63. I will pay you but it will have to be on instalments. I am only a watchman.I am unable to do any strenorous work but as it is I climb after four trips the height of a 24 story building and walk a m 16 blocks up a steep incline. The doctor at the plant who examined me gave me a break. He told me under no circumstances was I to moove fast or rjm. I had plenty of time to rake the round and to take all of it. That toa I had only a certain amount of reserve energy and to use it would mean collapse. , I w_i_l_l a_l_s_o__m_ake. a bargain with you. I feel certain*,'rifting out all possibilities or a phobia or possession or ha lamination that I am a victim of abrasive dusts and welding fuj^es. I v/ill-will%our college my body after death for your complete analysis of brain bone and tissue on condition that no part of it is to be preserved but that every part of it will be returned to my son who wall have it creamated and under the further conditions that all finnings will benefit my wife( with whom I do not live.She could not stand my uncalled for temper) and son and/fe7^ shall be the property of all medical men and not the property of a chosen few. Very ,,truly Charles N.Hancock ?.S.Those Doctors who should be able to help you most are Doctors Largay, Peinberg and Greicco whos addresses are in the file.or Dr Arthur Largay 935 Avenue C Bayonne N.J. Dr Harrjf Feneberg 964 Avenue C bayonne and Dr Emil Greicco 19 West 22nd street Bayonne N.J.