Document 1BmJq8QGO1V663r5OkqQp2ZE
FILE NAME: Metropolitan Life (ML)
DATE: 1955 Aug 24
DOC#: ML078
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Dr. Smith from US Dept of Health RE Editorial on "Silicosis, Asbestos and Cancer of the lung"
Dapottilent o( HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE * Public HcoltK Service
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National Institutes of Health * Btthesa 14, Md.
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August 24, 1955
Jsfbre it publication in Industrial Medicine ad surgery to Hr, Txrr,
who had forwarded this copy to Dr. lansa. A* a result of this vent,
iSOtSwaXst XsBtrot ongr lyViMsfui gCgaTst*sWd t*o)a<s*vtoItai'n*-ay3-n.a^me*o,fOf"thsssa*a!aMani(m4ortolptei dsallsg with tbs joint ISTsstlgstloia on hsslth haeerda among chronato
manufacturers ocnduoted by Dr* Xancuso sod ayself (Oocupatimal Caaosr
and Other Hsslth Haaards is a Ovenst* Plant! A Msdiosl Appraisal. 12 n 4" 4^ 1 and Toxicolofie Aspasts. Ind. Xed. fc9ur_g. 20093-437, (Septeebmr), 1951)
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bars eoas to an sad tines 1951 but there was for some tiae ssrious intea*-
fsrsnos ewen with mgr aspsrisental work in tto field of eccnpetLoosl water
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ths Mutual Cheatoil Company on blood reaction* cfarcasta muxufaawror*.
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tinUng this pseblim.
am* I saymat duriagthe lifstLas of Mr. Tarr, 2 had enjoyed the aost
hemcoicus, eoojaratise relations between ths Mutual Cbsmisal Company and
wr tbs Carelnogenie Studies Ssetd.au - as ssotlon was aallsd at that tlm. mr It 1 belief, however, that through ths atarreetlen of Dr* Lanes, not
only the interest or Aaen-san xnoustraie wxuu **.*- i.nr4. . <**** employed in these Industries, but of ths Asvicas psoplo at largs, and of
the Amarioan medical frofasalom, was seriously rtswaged.
V. C. Mlper, X. P., Chief tarlrsumatal Csneer Station Xattsnsl Canter Institute