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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May 28 DOC NMA048 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - City Acts to Curb Asbestos Spray CITY ACTSTO CURB bseucpapuosreting rapidly New York Times 1857Charent Spraying J^n" y281970ProQuest Historical HistoricalNewspapers The New YorkTinase 1851 Spraying 2002 has grown rapidly replaces the costlier method of enclosing members in con- crete ASBESTOS SPRAY Begins Hearings on Cancer Peril in Industrial Use In the spraying process how- of 60 ever as much 60 per cent the asbestos escapes into the To control this the regula tions proposed by the city would require the enclosinogf spray areas and cleanup and disposal By DAVID BIRD yes- The city opened hearings regulations terday on proposed that would control the spray- ing of asbestos to insulate and fireproof buildings The _ regulations concerning can- a implicated has strongly causing agent would be the strongly first of their kind in the coun- try But because expert testimony substi indicated that yesterday might be just as harmful the regulations would be extended to the spraying of all such material - procedures Dr. Selikoff that as discovered 1924 it was discovered thatthat people who worked with asbestos developed scarred lungs It took almost 30 more years of study to link the as- with cancer A study of 832 members of the asbestos workers union here was begun in 1948 by Dr. Sellkoff By last 403 of the 632 4 April he said died 72 of lung cancer He termed that number of lung cancer deaths a disaster because in a nor- mal group of that size only about 10 such deaths would be expected The physician said the con- tamination tamination had spread to the point where every person in Laboratory at Mount Sinai Medical Center and a leading specialist on the dangers of as- He study had said that long years study long asbestos caused taken prove cancer bestosYork City has some aslungs The proposals to enclose as bestos spraying the the public State areas to protect drew concern from Labor Department that concentrations of the dust might then be even greater for Dr Sellkoff Cancer said that such substitutes as rock wool and fiberglass had lasting qual- ities similar to asbestos and thereforeperiods dam in could lunge the lunge fortilssounepgerioads s asbestos did doing those the spraying * JacBkaliff chiefengineer of the State agency's agency's Industrial hygiene division , said the high- er concentrations of asbestos dust would require apparatus with an ent supapp alraytus independeRnt obert air supply instead of masks Dr. Rickles who heads breathing independent pres- N. the city's protection Department of Air Resources said the new regulations in- clude that The hearings resume today at the Astor which 10 AM at Cooper Place the headquarters of Union is also the Depart- ment Air Resources 5/28/705/28/705/28/70 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibilied without permission