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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1968 Dec 4 DOC#: NMA037 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: The Washington Post - U.S. Warned of Asbestos Peril .... Y. Y \ v Y Y ^ Y Y'-':; ^V Y Y 'Y 'A*& A* .____r__W__a`yt.D!*._<_._M__6_i-___T_H_E___W__A_S9HI_N_G__T_O__N\T03T *'. *.* .* *, **. . . * .. <V-A. y ::UoSo'Warned o f:'.'Asbestos' .P r By Thomas O'Toole . had asbestos traces in their holier makers, steam litters, British dockyards, only 4: W uhlncto* n i l s tif f Wrtt?r lungs, hut a slagcrring El per welders, riveters and engi come in direct contact with a j The Government has been cent of 70 men who had been neers--men who never handle bestos. - to1'! that the Nation's 350,000 shipyard workers at one p.mr asbestos. A fatal ^cancer of the ehc 1 shipyard workers lace a sorl- In their lives had "conxtrteni- Mount Sinai's slmiy {allows wall called mesothelioma li on', occupational hazard from ble" asbestos fibers in their !nie in Britain where asbestos cropped up in dockyard wor the asbestos in their place of lungs. Some-ot these men hail hazards in four ltnyal Dark- ers in five different occur work. spent as little as one week as`yards were examined. The re- linns, the llrilish report sal The warning was given Inst shipyard workers. ' jiults were reported in a recent This is a cancer almost pcct September to the Nary, the . I.nbnr Department and ' the Asheslos Dust ` Ii1p"u'i1i-opn.*l Vl,l'Cyeicno; aof,,llri,lfiirsthi' .Inr yet to asbestos none of the workers, a' victims ntt Public Health Service by New "The Incredible thing Is medical Journal. . / ' tinned in the British stn York's Mount Sinai Hospital, none of these men were ashes.; worked with asbestos. Th where autopsies havo shown tos workers," said. Dr. irvlng.`' shcxt0>i* ' JctImV were holier makers, fittc that most men who worked in J. Sclikoff, director of Ettvi-I In the past year, the report welders, shipwrights and gi shipyards had "excessive" as ronmcntal Medicine at Mount said, dockyard workers from ci at laborers. - bestos libers in their lungs, a Sinai yesterday. no fewer than .12 different oe- Mount Sinai's Dr. Scllk condition that often leads to Dr. Sclikoff explained thatjeupations (from engine litter said lhat he and a team of d terious lung disease. only about lp c r cent of the {to stoker) had been accepted tors have yet to analyze the So far. the three Federal dc- men working in shipyards han-jhy British health authorities shipyard workers for canse iartments have made no pub- die asbestos directly, but that as victims of ashestosis, a death. He also said that le acknowledgment of the re- most shipyard work is conchronic Inflammation of the team trill study another 2 ` port or Its contents. fined to such small places, like lungs that causes shortness uf autopsies done in the Inst I Autopsies have boon done ship's holds, (hat just shout all breath and heart disease. years for evidence of asbes op about 1000 persons who shipyard workers "inhale as The men in ten of these 12 in the lungs. lied In Mount Sinnt, Elmhurst bestos dust on the Job." occupations work in small, But it seems clear there Hospital in Queens and Veter The 70 ex-shipyard workers "machinery spaces," where problem here," Dr. Scllk ans Administration Hospital in on whom autopsies have been they breathe In asbestos fibers said. T h a t is why 1 hroiial the Bronx in the last two performed so far by Mount by accident. Of an estimated to the attention of the C5ov< years, ltoughly.half of these Sinai had been electricians, 30,030 workers in the four tnent." , ' ..* I f <