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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 1965 DOC BRK025 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Mesothelioma of Pleura and Peritoneum Following Exposure to Asbestos in the London Area - British Journal of Industrial Medicine B. J. industr Med 1965 22 261 2. D. Svirhely 11 11 Jer PJ and Mitche 1 Dangers of Toluce missible missiblmiessibcloencentrate concentrate concentrate J. Oil Colour Chemi , . 38 129 Hollingsworth R.L 14,387 14,387 * Thuis ) MESOTHELIOMA OF PLEURA AND PERITONEUM FOLLOWING EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS IN THE LONDON AREA BY MURIEL L. NEWHOUSE and HILDA THOMPSON From the Department of Occupational Health and Applied Physiology London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION FEBRUARY 11 1965 whendn from the London Hospital with a diagnosisdiagnosis of mesothelioma confirmed by A series of 83 patients to asbestosasbestos The series consisted of 41 Anad, necropsy or biopsy has been studied forhapodsspiebrlietoenxepalosaunrde 56 pleural pleural tumours The earliest death men and 42 women 27 of the pa1t0ieonftsthe series died before 1950 1950 and 40 48 between 1960 , and recorded recorded was in 1917 but only oes 1964 ARE occupational and residential histories were obtained Forty 52.6 gave In 76 of the series full occupational to EAL a history of occupational or domestic domestic living in the same house as an asbestos worker exposure asbestos compared with with nine 11 % out of 76 patients from the same hospital suffering from other diseases P < 0.001 None of of the 17 suspected cases of mesothelioma rejected on pathological . found to have had any exposure to asbestos There was also evidence that neighbour- grounds was hood exposures may be important Among those with no evidence of occupational or domestic with other diseases 30 % of the mesothelioma patients patients and 7.6 % of the patients elixvpeodswuirtehsin half a mile of an asbestos factory ( P < 0.01 Out of the 31 patieonfts19w3i1t.h oTchceupaitntieornvaall exposures only 10 were inin jobs scheduled under the AsbestiollsneRssegouflmaetsioontshelioma ranged between of between first exposure andand the development the terminal 16 and 55 years was available for examination In 47 patients in the mesothelioma mesothelioma series lung tissue or sputum ^' In 30 62.5 % either asbestosis or asbestos bodies were present In recent years the association between exposure among the women 25 had pleural and 17 peritoneal to asbestos dust and cancer of the lung and other malignant neoplasms has been the subject of much research leading article 1964 Wagner Sleggs and cee Marchand 1960 described the occurrence of mesothelioma of the pleura in those exposed to crocidolite (tence asbestos in the mining districts of South Africa and this has stimulated further studies of the occupa- aed tional histories of patients suffering from this tumour rene Owen 1964 Fowler Sloper and Warner 1964 The present investigation concerns patients in en whom mesothelioma had been diagnosed at the me London Hospital during the past 50 years After i examining the necropsy and biopsy specimens held i tumours The aim of this study has been to establish the occupational histories of these patients and to trace any other possible exposure to asbestos There were four surviving patients at the outset of the investigation but these have subsequently died The earliest date of death in the series was 1917 10 died before 1950 33 between 1950 and 1959 and the remaining 40 in the past four and a half years The youngest patient died at the age of 33 and nearly half were dead before the ave of 55 Table ) Clinical Features ; + in the pathology department Hourihane 1964 con- available firmed a diagnosis of mesothelioma in 83 patients The ward notes of 65 of the patients were and 42 women Thirty of and give a picture of a disease with a consistent of whom 41 were men the men had pleural tumours and 10 peritoneal symptomatology symptomatology Among those with pleural " ore seamen see petty SEXO opt meee~ as ed eaten E * .- 5 e2 aehe Pe qs F 3,7 4 a ca arp woe corges 262 BRITISH JOURNAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE fee ened, St thsethan Mb wid corti ' . ws Dantes s, TABLE 1 AGE AF DEATH OF 83 PATIENTS WITH TUMOURS MESOTHELIAL i Age yr | No. a +134 2 35- 7 45 | 15 | 55 10 65 ! 7 Male | 1 i | | a | % _ 49 17 | 366 | 2 17 4 i Female No. ! 6 9 18 8 j | n _ \ 24 14 21 | 429 19 i gM patient the notes had been returned to the local sant executive council of the National Health Service wale aLroenasdoannt| where they were destroyed within a period of three OEEE was take years deg date of a In one of the asbestos factories a file was kept with with the pee _ detailed records of all employees since it started in r places of 1913. The names of all patients were checked with SN these files Nine men and nine married for comp women after their maiden names had been ascertained from rela- Ctr tives were identified without difficulty The exact naka tumours the commonest dates of employment of these 18 patients and the ANE Details ete presenting symptom was jobs they had done were obtained from the the rapid onset of extreme shortness of breath due records series are a hee to the formation of massive pleural effusion Pain of the factory ATA about pas DE was a prominent feature either described as a dull The four patients alive at the beginning of the available motte ache sometimes due to invasion of the ribs investigation were interviewed personally A few 6,40 52 vertebrae or sometimes or relatives were contacted by post but the relatives of rete, sharp and radiating sugSan gesting nerve involvement 68 patients were interviewed by one of us H.T. at _ compared Sane series Bacoshe wall were not uncommon Tuomccouurrrsingin etihtehecrhesitn their homes situated mostly in the East End of T of a previous operation scars or by direct invasion of the London Not only was an occupational history the nee op ER chest wall The symptomatology of the peritoneal patient the spouse sons and daughters and father ve tumours was more varied In taken but past addresses were also recorded The ne Rene Y some patients the pre- interviews lasted for at least an hour To recall TYPES OF see senting symptom was pain on defaccation or of 30 or 40 events WITH MESS micturition Diffuse upper abdominal pain was years ago it was often necessary to Pie G, very explore the residential and act common and swelling of the abdomen due to ascites occupational histories of EDM * all members of the family Type e n was always present terminally The methods of gy pneumonectomy 7 treatment included decortication pteA of the lung deep ray therapy instillation of Exposure to Asbestos in Three Groups of Patients Employed Sat active gold and cytotoxic drugs They wereraudsieod- Suffering from Other Diseases Defiancvteorreyd g- . Bn AERO Ae alone or in combination but had little effect on the For comparison with the course of the disease Half of the patients suffering from pleural mesothelioma died within mesothelioma patients three further groups of patients suffering from other Employed factories one year of diseases were investigated Insulators f oe cea, the onset of symptoms a further third within two The first group was selected from the patients in Relative wo ytheraeres and onlTyhoene patient survived for more than the medical and surgical wards of the hospital during Nena Dockers >. meal years course of those with peritoneal the carly summer of 1964 patient series Each Cargo hak tumours appeared to be equally rapid Eight of the patient in the mesothelioma series who had been No history F ate spaytmiepnttos msdied within six months of the onset of traced was matched with an patient of the same daosmbeessttioc ap sex born in the same year period As there was ean Sources of Information a dearth of male patients over 75 years of age in the Positive . his aet k on Occupation and Residence hospital a sample of six patients of this age and positive FN older was taken from a In addition to the ward notes some of which gave hospital neighbouring geriatric Seven cu from this t Shairemece good occupational historics there were three other The second a sources of information the patient's general practi- been filed group were those who had originally tioner the records of an asbestos factory in the in the pathology department of the statistica wnet and personal interviews with area hospital as cases of mesothelioma but in whom the 0-001 1 surviving relatives patients or their diagnosis was subsequently rejected on pathological by the tw As first grounds by Hourihane 1964 rejected series As of step general practitioners were circulated it had proved extremely difficult to locate the rela- year with an explanatory letter asking them to complete tives of those who died before significar a form giving details of the occupations of patients made only to trace the three 1950 attempts were or in the 1 and their immediate relatives Within two survivors in this group and thos months and the 14 who died after 1950 eS 65 of the doctors had replied In two cases a The patient series already described ace paring t all tee hitherto unknown exposure to asbestos was revealed admitted to hospital in 1964. The were mesothel a in others the name and address of surviving relative mesothelioma patients with of the c a were given but in the majority the doctor was unable were admitted to the same hospital over a period of 47 years during which there might gave h This dif to give information because on the death of the have been a substantial change both in the residential h x 11 tae beat wee A VAS perake to the local Wealth Service period of three was kept with ce it started in ^ checked with d women after ned from relaty The exact ients and the m the records inning of the nally A few he relatives of us H.T. at East End of Thistory of the rs and father ccorded The recall events necessary to al histories of is of Patients Nt oma patients ag from other he patients in ospital during series Each ho had been of the same As there was of age in the This age and ang geriatric nd originally ment of the in whom the | pathological I series As ate the relatempts were in this group hed were all Patients with ame hospital there might he residential te MESOTHELIOMA OF PLEURA PLEURA FOLLOWING FOLLOWING EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS 263 te areas and social classes of patients attending the London Hospital Thus a third group of patients was taken from the hospital records matched by Table 3 EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS OF CONFIRMED AND REJECTED REJECTED CASES OF MESOTHELIOMA SURVIVING SURVIVING AFTER JANUARY 1950 - date of admission as well as date of birth and sex nk with the patients in the mesothelioma series Their nweee places of residence and occupations were extracted te for comparison with those of the patient series te Results Sem Details of the 83 patients in the mesothelioma series are given in the Appendix No information about past domestic and occupational histories was water available for seven patients Among the remaining 76 40 52.6 gave a history of exposure to asbestos compared with only nine 11-8 of the patient series Table 2 The difference in this proportion is | Exposure to Asbestos i Exposure positive i On ee No work or domestic contact | found | Untraced | Diagnosis of Mesothelioma Confirmed i 36 ' H { 35 i I H Rejected 0 16 1 = 1183 P - 001 Mesothelioma Series Occupational Exposures are details available for the 18 mesothelioma patients who had worked at one asbestos factory which used croci- dolite asbestos with small amounts of chrysotile and TABLE 2 TYPES OF EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS OF 76 PATIENTS WITH MESOTHELIOMA AND 76 PATIENTS PATIENTS WITH OTHER ate DISEASES Hk diene Type of Exposure { Miche . " at i OE Employed at one asbestos s tae factory he Delivered goods to factory a re Employed at other Jactories Ae Mesothelioma Series No jf ! 19 Py H | + H % 25 patient Series No. % . | { 1.3 1.3 first introduced amosite in 1926 Eleven started work before 1933 the year when the asbestos regula- tions controlling the manufacture of asbestos goods and the protection of asbestos workers became effective and seven started work between the beginning of 1933 and the end of 1942. The occupations of these workers and the type of asbestos they used are shown in Table 4. All of the 17 for whom details were available had used crocidolite asbestos Five of the occupations listed are not scheduled as Insulators and laggers ! 8 10 | 4 53 TABLE 4 Relative worked with asbestos " ' ris | I 13 Dockers cargo handling asbestos i 0i H |2 | 4 26 _ \ | No history of work or | | domestic exposure to | } asbestos 1 30 , 47 67 i 882 | Positive exposures to asbestos in mesothelioma series Versus e positive histories in patient series 12-27 12-27 11 < 0.001 een * Seven cases of mesothelioma could not be traced and are omitted from this table JOBS OF 17 PATIENTS WITH MESOTHELIOMA EMPLOYED AT ONE ASBESTOS FACTORY Statutory Obligations Subject to regulations ; 7 | Joh | MaleMale | Spinning 0 ;\ Carding Carding Carding t 1 1 | Clothing and \ weaving 1 t ; Disintegrating Yo and opening 2 | ' I . 7 | Female Female Female \ MaterMatierialal t i 4 |H Crocidolite ' 1 Crocidolite Crocidolite | : Crocidolite | | 0 , chrysotile amosite 1 | | | I Crocidolite chrysoule ' ama osite mosite statistically highly significant ( > 27-11 < 0001 This result unlikely to be unduly influenced by the two groups of patients not being matched for year of admission to hospital since there was no significant difference either in the areas of residence or in the occupations of the patients admitted in 1964 and those admitted between 1917 and 1964. Comparing the confirmed and rejected patients in the mesothelioma group who died after 1950 36 50 of the confirmed and none of the 17 rejected cases gave a history of exposure to asbestos Table 3 This difference is statistically highly significant x 83 p 0.001 } Filter making | For ARP ARP | { jo masks i 2 i 0 Crocidolite | i Manufacturing ot preformed | pipe insula t j tion |i j } 1 | Crocidolite Not subject to Manufacturing regulations of brake bnings | i |1 { Rubber com- | pounding | 0 | General i labourer | t { i | 0 Crocidolite Crocidolite i chrysotile Crecidolite 0 ; chrysotile amosite ' ! Employment Employment history not available for one female patient recsavon Oe ss iar feces eT hand TREhe! yePee eroainteyyVelngy a va yt aCSLE tae act PLASyon I e rie aR Bee * wh Ip ctsnever Aas Tart EE ars Fk CPR F Spt satis Me 264 BRITISH JOURNAL T INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE HMS VM requiring medical supervision under the Asbestos Regulations 1931 Four patients were working at other factories making all types of asbestos goods One had been employed in a wagon works sawing asbestos sheets for partitions Except for one a woman employed in insulating electrodes with crocidolite the types of asbestos used in these other factories are not known The eight heating engineers and laggers were all men Three had been employed in dockyards on ship repairs two in various types of lagging one in a power station one installing hospital sterilizing equipment and one installing central heating All DISEASE GROUPS OF TABLE 5 PAINTS SERIES Disease Group Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Metabolic endothelial including anaemias intestinal excluding cancers Respiratory excluding cancers All neoplasms Other Total IN THE No Patients 21 9 8 6 3 18 76 9, PANM PATIENT No with ae Exposure to Mt Asbestos NL ; 03 PEE | 22 AN 0 i i ASE 9 ON were consistently employed on this type of work for more than 20 years but in some exposure to asbestos was intermittent cerns thelioma and the 67 patients in the patient NE series who had neither an occupational exposure Domestic Exposures group of nine seven nor a relative living in the home working with Oa asbestos might have been exposed to asbestos dust Fe women and two men whose relatives worked with asbestos are of particular interest The most usual history was that of the wife who washed her husband's dungarees or work clothes In one instance a relative said that the husband a docker came home * white with asbestos every evening for three or four because they lived in the immediate vicinity of an OP asbestos factory ee One factory where more than fifth of the mesothelioma patients were employed opened in cceean ge ee 1913 having been situated nearer the centre of London for the previous seven years There were oL years and his wife brushed him down The two men in this group when boys of 8 or 9 years old had sisters who were working at an asbestos factory One of these girls worked as a spinner from 1925 to 1936 In 1946 she died of asbestosis The press report of the inquest states She used to return home from work with dust on her clothes Her brother had apparently no other exposure to asbestos he started work as a shop assistant then became a sawyer of three affected female patients living within half a eapie mile of the factory during the time it was in produc- tion at its first site SL When it opened they were children between 5 and 7 years old At the present OEE site there were eight patients living within a half- mile radius ofthe factory One man was born within INEM a quarter of a mile of the factory and remained at 9 mn, the same address for 16 years The other seven were women and all except one were children when the canted iron girders until 1948 when he worked as a loader factory opened The seventh was 23 years of age and of groceries in the docks for five years but never on remained in the same house until she died 48 years A dusty cargoes and then returned to sawing iron a Tier girders He died in 1956 of pleural mesothelioma later She is the only patient who had neither occupational nor household exposure but in whom patient Series Occupational and Domestic Exposures of this series had worked in asbestos factories and four had been employed as laggers The husband of another was employed at an asbestos factory for three years and two dockers in this group gave histories of handling asbestos cargoes from time to asbestos bodies were found in the lungs at necropsy eae ei, Among the patient series one patient lived near the factory at its previous site and four others Ee lived near its present site One patient was 22 years old when she moved into the neighbourhood in 1915 She disliked it and when interviewed complained MOR) impartially about the dust from the asbestos factory and the rats in the house AMA time throughout their working life Att The diagnoses of these patients have been grouped pe into seven categories Table 5 The patients with a TABLE 6 RESIDENCE OF PATIENTS WITH NO OCCUPATIONAL OR DOMESTIC EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS positive history of exposure are scattered throughout the various diagnostic groups and there is no indica- tion that exposure to asbestos could be related to the disease which had caused their admission Series Lived Within sg 1 mile of | | Bien Asbestos Factory Lived More Than | mile from | Asbestos Factory tAsbestos - No. . Total Neighbourhood Exposures of Mesothelioma and Mesothelioma - a patient ! 25 69 36 + | [ene . 62 925 67 patient Series 36 patients with meso- 785 001 MES Thus amor domestic expos patients in the in the patier of an asbestos difference in u series who live had no other significant x Date of First in Mesotheliom had been exp lived near the of ex osure var to over 50 yor exposure and d mean 37.5 yet workers where interval was si group living i factories whe lowest Table at first exposur death in each g * RELATION BET OF INTERVAL Type of Exposa Factory work Domestic Laggers and insulate Living in neighbo hood of fictory varied between death showed group of facto years in the o Asbestos B. thelioma Series thelioma series examination in all certified as tissue available revealed the pr Both asbestos * asbestosis were and laggers A asbestos bodies ons ee Fhe ot Saha ES RR Te PATIENT yt No No Exposureser 1 Asbettes |H 1 ; : : 2 j 0 1 . 4 i in patient patient al exposure orking with bestos dustdust cinity of _ difth of the opened in centre of There were thin half a in produc- they were the present in a half born within emained at seven weTC when the of age and 48 years ad neither i in whom necropsy tient lived our others is 22 years od 1915 omplained zos factory IONAL OR : a i { 36 1,7 Sanne those with no occupational or Thus among to asbestos there are 11 30-6 restic expthoesumreessothelioma series series and five % Sents in series who lived lived within half a mile patient in the area Table 6 The an asbestos factory of patients in the two ference in the proportion of the factory and had ses who lived in the vicinity to asbestos is statistically no other exposure alficant alficant P xx77 .. 88 55 < 001 tissue was available in Oty BASAET |the Lung by living in the exposed either through relatives relatives or In two neighbourhood of asbestos factories neighbourhood present in lung tissue but there asbestos bodies were present was no evidence of asbestosis TABLETABLE 8 BODIES OR ASBESTOSIS EVIDENCE OF ASBESTOS WITH LUNG TISSUE CASES OF MESOTHELIOMA FOR EXAMINATION SPUTUM AVAILABLE IN OR First ESxeporsiuerse and Asbestos | | Available Mesothelioma : Date of Interval Before Death Fifty men and women exposed been to asbestos including those who duration duration History of Asbestosis or Asbestos Bodies Lung Contact Present Present Absent not Available - A a 633 pn 23 main | The duration Positive main factory The factory 22 ed asbestos factory | 4 633 13 . near thethe main from two months Untraced ' varied widely ranging Untraced | exposure The interval between the first - | 17 36 30 | 2 over 50 years Total t and death varied between and 55 years posure 37.5 Among the group of factory mean 37.5 years was probably heaviest the definite Among the 12 patipatients ents iin n whom no definite contacta workers where exposure the shortest It was longest among with asbestos could be established there was one probably Gervalliw viansg in the neighbourhood neighbourhood of the asbestos from South Africa whose lungs merchant seaman bodies and asbestosis he may youp to dust was actories actories where exposure showed both asbestos at sea Table 7 shows the mean age of each group , have had contact either in South Africa or west and the mean of of the interval before but his early history could not be established There first exposure the the length of interval three others in this group who had asbestos Although asbestosis ath in each group were bodies in lung tissue without evidence of could not be rea Of the seven patients whose histories histological nr TABLE 7 traced three had asbestos bodies and EXPOSURE AND LENGTH of asbestosis and one had asbestosis alone BETWEEN RELATION BETWEEN TYPE IN 51 PATIENTS IN evidence a OF INTERVAL BEFORE BEFORE DEATH SERIES MESOTHELIOMA MESOTHELIOMA Discussion q | | Type of Exposure | Factory work | Domestic work and neighbour- Laggers | | hood of factory | Mean Age at Exposure No. \ First years | 23 225 23 | 179 156 By nN 85 : Mean Interval between First and Exposure years 294 37 38 4 48 6 29-4 and 48-6 years the mean age at saried between it was 50 6 years in the death showed lessless wvoarrikaetrisonand between 55 and 57 group of factory ' years in the other groups with nw Bodies and Asbestosis in the Meso- Asbestos Series Of the 83 patients in the meso- - thelioma available for thehoma thehoma series series lung tissue was In four other patients examination in forty " all certified as suffering from asbestosis no lung examination of sputum during life tissue available available bodies Table ) revealed the presence of asbhistologeical hsitsotoslogical evidence of * Both asbestos bodies and in 15 of the 24 factory workers asbestosis were found A further five showed evidence either and laggers in patients 25 In thethe series mesothelioma series are 25 there are patients in could mesothelioma asbestos whom no evidence evidence any exposure to of a information found A chief source of was be A relative surprising history taken from surwvaivsinogbtained but in some of of amount information interviewed the memory may have been defec- those short periods of tive or they may not have known of during the youth of the deceased For exposure was eventually identified example one of the patients factory for two as having worked at large asbestos before he married and months in 1941. This was It is of his widow did not know of this episode were found interest that asbestos bodies in the lungs four of this group and it seems probable that in only those who had had among the remainder there were no exposure to asbestos both in- In the mesothelioma series of patients dustrial and industrial exposures were recog- nized Among the men the exposure was pre- dominantly industrial 22 worked in asbestos two were exposed at home factories or as laggers the and one lived near the asbestos factory Among women only 10 worked in asbestos factories and a asbestos bodies or asbestosis 1 . a we & Ri? , ^' . Paces : gt Ee teme Sy an aE? ates Se oe rd -. -- . 5 es Ste Ah bea 2 : : 266 BRITISH OURNAL OF further 17 had industrial exposures seven in the home and 10 living near asbestos factories There is no evidence that the patients with peritoneal tumours differed in their type of exposure from the patients with pleural tumours The proportion of positive findings of asbestos bodies or asbestosis was similar in both groups A higher proportion of women particularly among the factory workers was affected by peritoneal tumours but the difference between the sexes was not statistically significant The recent increase in the number of patients diagnosed at the hospital may be partly due to an increased interest in mesothelial tumours and partly to the long interval between first exposure and development of the tumour Those exposed between 1915 and 1925 might be expected to die from about 1950 onwards Asbestos imports to the United Kingdom have mounted steeply since 1932 Leathart Leathart 1964 and its uses are more widely diversified in industry The increasing proportion of the population exposed to asbestos during the past 30 years may be expected to give rise to an increasing occurrence of mesothelial tumours The choice of groups for comparison with the mesothelioma series of patients was not ideal The number of patients it was possible to trace in the rejected series proved to be very small The inpatient series although matched for date of birth and sex differed from the mesothelioma series in that all were admitted to hospital during 1964. Neither of these groups could be interviewed without know- ledge of the disease from which they were suffering This could have led to bias with reporting of exposure to asbestos in the patient series However in the patient series the actual patient was interviewed and more detailed and rehable histories were obtained than was possible from the relatives ofthose who had died of mesothelial tumours There was no evidence that because of their more recent admission to hospital the patient series was less oR INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE RAE RM likely than the mesothelioma series to work in con- tact with asbestos or to live in closer proximity to ATER asbestos factories There seems little doubt that the risk of meso- a thelioma may arise from both occupational and et Ue domestic exposures to asbestos Wagner and others aA 1960 described patients with no exposure other than living as a child in the vicinity of the asbestos bet STN mines A high incidence of asbestos plaques of the he pleura has been found in the population living near an anthophyllite mine in Finland Kiviluoto 1960 a TO More evidence is required of an increased risk to the population living in the neighbourhood of asbestos factories or other areas such as dockyards where ae asbestos is used in quantity are We should like to thank Dr. D. O'B Hourihane for eo his operation and for making the results of his + investigations available to us earned Our thanks are also due to Professor C. Professor V. W. Dix Dr. N. Rusby and Wilson Mr. G. Gee Flavell F.R.C.S. of the London Hospital and Dr. C. P. Silver of St. Matthew's Hospital for permission to inter- view their patients to the general practitioners who col- ae laborated in this enquiry to the managements of the ne asbestos factories for arranging access to their records to Miss Joan Walford for statistical assistance and to Dr. C. Gilson Professor R. F. Schilling and Dr. W. Smither for their advice and help The contents of this paper were communicated to the Conference on the Biological Effects of Asbestos arranged by the New York Academy of Sciences in a October 1964 and will be published in a shorter form in the proceedings of that conference Fowler 211 Pe REFERENCES PBS PBS , Sloper C. and Warner E. C. 1964 , , 211 Brit med Leading article 1964 Thud , 2. 202 Hourihane D. O'B 1964 Thor ix 19 268 Kiviluoto 1960 Acta ruched Stockh } Suppl 194 Death G L. 1969 O ap Hin and ) 16 119 Fel Owen W. Glyn 1964 med J. 2 214 Wagner J. C. Sleggs CA. and Marchand P. 1960 Brit J. industr Med . 17 260 I eng MESOT Case No. i Site of Primary Tumour | |s Section A Factor wor ;. 8 Pleura > 19 Peritoneum ' t 18 Peritoneum | i I' 24 | Pleura 14 Puttoreum | i 16 | Peritoneum ' 13 Peritoneum ' i = | Pertereum ! \ \. 1 t ' 15 [ Peritoneum 9 { Peritoneum : Pleura 1 Peritoneum t 5 | Peritoreum j | \ 7 Peritoneum ' . : 2 Pleura 20 Peritoneum7 17 Pleura 6 i Pleura 10 Peritoneum I Pleura 23 Pleura ' 3 | Peritoneum | 4 | Peritoneum Appendix opposite MN Section B Laggers and 25 Pleura ' 28 Pleura ah Maer 22 Pieura Uo 30 Pleura Sago 27 Peritoneum OR | ' 26 Peritoneum 1 31 Pleura on PT 29 Picura AM 3 g 3 a 4 iS Te cn 4 TOE ERMINE I IL I eT TT OT ee A TE ee Ns in rk in con- Oxanty fa APPENDIX APPENDIX APPENDIX EIGHTY THREE PATIENTS WITH MESOTHELIAL TUMOURS of mesomesos s ional and and and others are other other asbestos \ | ' | Dura- | Pathe | |{ BirBthirYetahr |years | in | Symptoms 10 in | ||| 7150 Site of Primary Tumour 1 Year Year | tion of ft of Year Sex First Expo- of Birth Expo- sure Death \ | ! sure i i i i | How Dingnosed 1 Asbestos Jogical | Survival Bodies Evidence | from | in Lung i of As- i Initial i Tissue | bestosis Symptoms Lung months ; | Tissue j A |: _ Relevant History on A Factory workers ues ues \ ues ofof the the Pleura |M 1901 | | ing near | 1960 to , 1960 219) Peritoneum { M 1895 t 1921 17 1919 4 22 usk to the the f f asbestos ds ds where where uhane for uhane its of has i i \ { 18 | Peritoneum } F 1908 1925 , 5 i; i 1 . i H | | 24 Pleura M 1880 1928 12 ; | 1906 ! . : 11889933 14 Peritorium , F 1893 { H 1917 ? 16 | Peritoneum F 1906 1922 7 t i , i \ | i 1938 ; | Necropsy Positive Positive | H 1941 | | Necropsy Positive ' Positive | | : 1 1947 | Biopsy j Positive | A | | , 1 sputum : | , 1950 Necropsy| Positive Negative | : 1951 |\ | Necropsy Negative Negative | | { ... 951 Biopsy | Positive | NA | i sputum | , WilsoWnilson Mr Dr. C. P a to inter- > whwho o col who ofof its 1 the records ' | j > W300 Peritoneum : | I Peritoneum || i \ 15 Peritoneum | H{ 9 - Peritoneum Peritoneum Peritoneum | : 21 | Pleura 1 | 4 2 12 t Peritoneum ; F| | F : ! M F 1894 1894 1895 1901 1897 1897 | H H ' 1 1915 i 5 ' | 1917 | | i { H { H 7 1918 | 141 \ 11991199 bo, ! 1955 | Necropsy H 1955 | Biopsy | i Positive Positive sputum 1955 | { 1956 1956 A 1956 Biopsy Positive sputum NeNecropcsy ropsy , PosPiotisvietive 1893 | } > 1918 , 1923 1937 i 1957 Biopsy i 2 1958 ! Biopsy N A Positive Positive A A Negative Negative NNeegagtiavetive A N { , | Brake liner boiler coverer asbes- Tox Tactory ; mainly crocidolite ? Disintegrator and otner jobs asbestos factory amosite croci- ' dolite chrysotile Sectional pipe maker asbestos 1 Sectionalfactory certified asbestotic mainly crocidolite 9 Used asbestos boarding in railway | carriage construction j ? Asbestos factory job unknown 9 { Opener and sectional pipe maker 1 asbestos factory certified ashes- tolic amosite crocidolite chiyso- chiysochiyso- tile certified 12 Sapsibnensetrotiacsbemsutnolsyfaccrtoocriydochetretified 3 ' Sectional pipe maker asbestos factory.certified factory.certified asbestotic mainly crocidolite 6 Spinner asbestos factory certified asbestotic mainly crocidolite ; amositeamosite crocidolite chrysotile 3 Disintegrator asbestos amosite amosite crocidolite ; chrysotile 18 Asbestos mixer north England asbestos factory 18 Carder asbestos factory mainly c and to id Dr. W ted ted to the Asbestos Asbestos fences in ster form 3 { | | i | | | \ 5 Peritoneum M 1908 1927 30 1958 11958 Necropsy Positive Positive 18 ! : * 1 ' j | * | Peritoneum | | 4) 1940 z 7 | Peritoneum { M 1925 4 + 1958 Biopsy A A 3 t i : 2 | Picura : | - ! || 1 ' \ | | | M | 1925 1941 1,6 1 1959 Biopsy | Negative Negative 1 | ' i : 4 t } { ' ; | | j 20 Peritoneum 1 F 1907 | 1921 10 1959 Necropsy Negative Negative ? i | 17 Pleura t : } : \ i ok 1908 1924 , - 1962 0 Biopsy | Positive | Negative i{ ? i ' 6 | Pleura ! | t ! i ' j | | J M 1907 | 1942 3 1962 Necropsy Positive Positive | 2 j ' j i | } i 1 | 1 i i {i| crocidobte Clothing and weaving asbestos factory amusite weaving crocidolite i chrysotile Friter maker for A R.P masks asbestos factory mainly croci- dolite Filter maker for A.R.P masks 1 asbestos U dohte factory mainly croci- \ Electrode coverer crocidolite t ... Spinner asbestos + crocidolite factory mainly | Delivered factorfacytory chemicals amosite , to asbestos crocidolite 1 chrysotile Brut mort BBrere 10 F | Peritoneum ! |! Pleura | MPT 23 | | 20} : Plear Peritoncu 4 | Peritoneum i M M { M ! | 1899 | 1923 | 1899 : : 1936 | | \ 1908 | 1925 { { : | 911 1930 ' j o 1917 1937 : ' t . ) . } , 1963 Biopsy ! Positive ; \ ' 26 1963 Necropsy Positive | |' : | { 1963 Necropsy Positive | 2 1963 | Necropsy | Positive : 3 27 1964 i Necropsy Positise i | \ | Negative | i | Positive ' \ | Negative \ I Positive | ' ; Positive | | 5 | Spinner asbestos factory mainly crocidolite ? j Labourer works and buildings | asbestos factory amosite crocIchrysotile dolite 1 insulating S Worked 301 yard of insulating f Contractors mainly 6 ! Carder asbestos factory mainly + crocidohte 24 i Disintegrator and other jobs 1 asbestos factory amosite croci- dolite chrysotile | Section Baggers Baggers and insulators 2 * 1 ~ 25 i Pleura 28 : 22 Pleura Pleura M M H ' M 1874 1885 : 1893 . 1910 1921 , 1937 53 1935 Necropsy H B 1955 + Biopsy 1959 Necropsy Negative A 9 Negative ; NA ! ' Positive 1 Positive | 1 i | 30 Pleura : 1 M 1908 | 1922 39 1961 Biopsy N'A A ' i | ! . 1 1 27 Peritoneum i M 1908 | 1922 36 ' 1961 Necropsy Positive | Positive |' ' 26 Peritoneum M 1911 1927 34 , 1961 Necropsy Positive , Positive | ' : { 31 Pleura - M 1897 1915 41 1962 Bropsy NA A } > . 29 Pleura iM 191219121927 34 1962 Biopsy NA . NA 12 24 16 25 12 13 8 10 : Worked in close proximity to boiler repairer in dockyards Boiler cleaner and stripper dock- | i yards Boiler coverer and lagger to various firms | Erecting and fitting central heating t + Boiler coverer and pipe insulator ' contracting firm ! Lagger and boiler coverer various firms 1 Intermittently boiler lagger ship repairs Installation of hospital sterilizing equipment continued 5 i 3 F < if p , ; . H i ! ' : ae sae) : = pon -& ; so 1 \ ay : ae eergist TSatei - By ae 3 2 ae 4 of 4 4 oe 7 "4 L e o . q a a a 7 ~ 8 a ar ze i. i * ae a I + & 4 4 _ ig } 2 _ok on mi a 4 i 3 i t g f } iaT 4 7 y : z { ; a 4 -q i : t 3 5 ^' 2 i t 3 ' i 3 i om savna 268 BRITISH JOUR AL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE APPENDIX continued a q EIGHTY LENTS WITH MESOTHELIAL TUMOURS 4 ! \ I | t 5 | . Dura- H Patho- ' \ . i Year tion : 4 | Hi Asbestos Case Site of 1 Year of of | Year How Bodies logical | Survival i | ' No. Primary Sex of First Lapo- of f Diag- Evidence 7 from H i g Tumour ) | History { i Birth Expo- sure Death nosed in Lung | Tissue of As- Initial : Relevant { i bestosis Symptoms i ! | years | | | sure : ' in Lung { months en H Tissue ee } | | { Section C> of 1 Exposure of relatives i i : | :] 40 Pleura M : 1912 ! 1925 i | i 1956 ; Biopsy A / . 27 1 Elder sister worked as spinner at 34 Pleura ; 38 | Pleura F {oF i { | | 1913 1919 | 2 | H 1895 1919 41 i ' 1957 Biopsy 1960 Biopsy NA A A N | 14 15 1 ' . 27 Pleura i oF 1905 | 1925 14 | 1960 Biopsy N A 3 | i t | 35 | Peritoneum , F 1890 | 1921 21 1960 Necropsy Positive Negative 24 i 33 Pleura { F | | | | ' 1916 1930 4 1961 , Necropsy Negative Negative + ? : ! 39 | Pleura i i | M 1919 1 1928 | ' ' 2 1961 Biopsy A A 18 ! H fl i \ ' | | 32 Pleura '| F 19001941 19041 19001941 5 1963 |+ Biopsy A A 18 i : | 36 Peritoneum | F t |' : 1889 | 1912 18 1963 , Biopsy A A | 1 15 |! | : \ 4 t ~ H : Section D Neighbourhood cases asbestos factory certified asbestotic died 1946 i Elder sister employed as spinna 4 looked after patient as child } For several years husband worked + in ship's engine room close } proximity to lagging operations i Husband worked as boiler coverer overalls brought home for washing Husband foreman and executive at asbestos factory : j Husband 7 docker frequently handled white asbestos Elder sister worked as spinner at asbestos factory and suffers from ^' + asbestosis 3 in Daughter worked asbestos { for 5 years patient washed her overalls i Husband railway carriage builder lined compartments with asbestos { sheeting work clothes washed at home 3 Case No. P T 6611 Pe 54 Pi 76 | Ple 58 Pl Pl 66 | PlPle e 57 PePerr 52 4 PlPele 63 | PiPeie 44 j Pleura | | i 48 | Pleura i ' F 1905 | 1913 7 | M 1922 1922 16 1 42 | Pleura j |F 1889 ! 1913 48 ! 50 Pieura ' i j 43 Pleura H |i 47 I Pleura H F | 1903 1908 6 F| F 1905 | 1913 13 H F 1917 ; 1917 10 ' ! | 64 | Pleura E 1899 | 1907 6 ! F 71 Pizura | F 1899 * 1907 6 I | . 41 Pleura H F 1900 | 1913 32 ' 45 {| Pleura } | F 1900 j 1913 7 | 40 Pleura : ; F | 1907 \ 1913 7 j H ' Section L. No history of contact with asbestos asbestos 1959 | ' 1960 ! : Biopsy Biopsy | 1961 Biopsy 1961 | Biopsy t 1961 Biopsy ' { \ 1961 Biopsy i 1962 , Bropsy | 1962 Biopsy | 1962 ' Biopsy . 1962 | Biopsy : 1963 | Biopsy ! A A Positive ! |A 1 |A \ |A i | Negative | | N A ' I A H i Negative ! ! A : i |A ' | i N'A : i | | Negative | H A : ' I A A | , A A i A A | 8 17 15 13 t 16 S 12 29 ] 7 | Lived within 1 mile of present site , of asbestos factory || Lived within } mile of pres .t site of asbestos factory | Lived within 100 yards of present i site of asbestos factory { Lived within 1 mile of old site of j asbestos factory Lived within } mile of present site of asbestos factory Lived within 200 yards of present site of asbestos factory i Lived within } mule of old site of } asbestos factory j Lived within } male of old site of ' asbestos factory Lived within to mile of present site ofasbestos factory Lived within $ mule of present site of asbestos factory Lived within } mile of present site ofasbestos factory i ... Ple g | P...l {3 i 73 | = t3 70 Ple ; { 72 P. ; ; 1 55 Ple i > f .60 | Pe I 67 | Ple jJ 56 Pic . | | i 65 Pleura Foo: 1900 : ! 1 1947 Necropsy Positive Negative 7 Worked 69 P- ! 3 c ! i ! } as nursemaid to manager 3 ; } | \ 68 Do. j| ' ' of gas works in East London London ' | Peritoneum i I , 1902 ! : 1954 Necropsy Negative { ' Negate 1 asbestos insulation used in works typist | : i i : | S | Shorthand and housewile H 53. PlPlee | | } | 49 | Pleura = 1895 } ' | 1954 i Biopsy A lved Ilford area | Hl t : | 5 i H : A ? 1 Baker's roundsman army general , I ; ! io. ! t labourer publican for 30 i 75 | Pleura ; # 1899 { i : 1955 | years : East End of London i i | | ' | i Biopsy i A N H ? Munitions work before marriage I t | ; i t i { : | : ' then housewife lived Waltham x Section Section i | H 74 Peritoneum IF 1904 { 1955 | Necropsy H Abbey Essex i 78 Plet I | | F H : ' Negative Negative 27 | Tailoress and housewife in East 62 Pleura | | | {: M 1899 | i 1955 | Necropsy | Negative End of London 83 Ple H | | H ' i i Positive 1 28 1 y Employed as luteman and greaser 4 i | | | Beckton gas works 36 years 81 Pic \ | i . | i i 1 persistent discharging sinus R. 4 i | | j ; ' : : i i ; side of chest following empyema . 80 Pleu | i !i \ { i i 1925 acute chest infection 1953 | from | ' i i ! ' ' ! i | subsequent thoracoplasty but 82 Ple deteriorated from this date i i" 77 Perit : 79 4 Pl s continued s x i . APPENDIX continued continued . . . EIGHTY PATIENTS WITH MESOTHELIAL MESOTHELIAL TUMOURS t r T , ||Exposure Death | || | HistHoisrtoryy aT ! 7 7 , Dura- ! i Year V| Year | tion . S Sii tetoef ise Year | Year of of Year How Primary Sex ' of First Expo- of | Diag- Tumour Birth Exposure Exposure Death nosed i sure years . | | : t i 1 SI Peritoneum | M 1913 | } 1. 1955 | Biopsy i \ definite : | | as spinner at died 1946 || 1| | ed as spinner as child by i Pleura Pleura ! ' ' fl | ; | | MM 191904 04 1919556 6 Biopsy t' s usband worked | | | | room clo * Pleura Pleura ! F F 1916 { ; 1957 Biopsy | | | g operations \ | \ ascertained poiler Loverer i t | : ' me executive washina | | | Garage ' 5 | Biopsy executive at 553 3 PlPleeura ura ,M 18198191 1957 Biopsy ' | er | F | | ; frequently frequenftrequenltly y Pleura F ' 1898 i 1958 i Biopsy Destos \ before death \ i ; ' H ' London H nd sullers at | | , Peritoneum ! ; : Peritoneum | 57 1879 Biopsy Peritoneum M : 57 factory Biopsy 1 1958 asbestos factory | originally Ipswich nt washed her H; ' | | \ boy Ipswich builder uage Dagenham s with asbestos | thes washed at 3 M | lived Hainault - ; 1 | | i Fitter and turner of present site | | | Positive of present site 52 Pleura t i St $9 j 2 PleurPa leura PlPeleura ura Pleura = i M 1 1890 1890 1904 4 ! { : H ' i M \ 1910 : t H M 1911 : to 1959 Biopsy 119690 60 . Biopsy H 1960 Necropsy Necropsy 1960 | 1 Necropsy | possible rds of present | | | ' Lived ory > : 73 Picura Picura | 1887 1887 j | housekeeper of old site of | | ; and P | PiPicucra ura i housewife and of present site ' ! 18881888 : i- i : | i | in | F 4 1898 : ids of present + 7272 i PePeritoneum ritoneum F 1898 present | 1960 orv | 19621962 NecropsyNecropsy Necropsy 1962 | Biopsy { 1 1962 j BiopsyBiopsy i \ Asbestos Bodies in Lung Tissue A / A A N A N A Pathological 7 4 Lvidence of As- L bestosis in Lung Tissue (at eee ee |A \ { i |A i ' / i / A A : Survival | from Initial Relevant History Symptoms {| months | ' | H | 8 | Merchant seaman cargoes from S. | 1 Africa 1930-32 no evidence | '- of contact with asbestos subse- | { quently employed on channel | | boats 12 Labourer and builder finally em- H ployed in tunnelling lived in East : i End of London 19 Employed remaking old sacks in Bow previous content of sacks not { lived East End of London 11 hand chauffeur mechanic ; lived Wolverhampton and Epping 6 | Worked as printing machinist marriage then as housewife death lived East End of NA NA : A i N :A i A London 3 \ i . Stereotyper moved to and printer East London Ipswich lived then 12 Van cutter and army 1 grinder lived NN..EE.. London and ! . A A Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative Positive Positive ; Negative Negative | Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative A / ' A | 18 Bricklayer cement worker post- ; man End of London moved to Hainault Essex in 1931 18 lived principally + in East End of London ? Coloured S. African merchant sea- man | stoker at glass factory contact with asbestos in S. Africa or at sea 10 marriage in Wales then housekeeper in SW London 30 Machinist of celluloid collars | 1 lived East canteen ondon worker 10 Machinist hosiery trade Notting- housewife moved to London . 1960 | | \ Labourer merchant of old site of Si Si PPlleeuurraa M M ' 11888888 | 11996622 NecNe rcorpop ss yy H Negative Negative ! Negative Negative + : 2 docker seaman only meat carried of old site of | | 1 | death butcher of present site | | of present sistiete presnt | Dressmaker of present site i | 1915 i , t 1962 1962 Negative Necropsy Negative Negative Negative | 54 Apprentice printer barman cook 50 PePerriittoonneeuum m M 11915 | 50 i 25 years before For i \ ' | H death lived East End of London : Biopsy | 6767 Pleura Pleura 1897 F 1897 | 3 11963963 Biopsy A NA NA j NE and housewife lived { East End of London then Somerset ; | ' 56 Pleura ' 1 1912 1912 11 9613963 Biopsy N A N A 24 Steel erector army steel erector and porter lived East ; | | { | labourerLondon _ i | | | ) | as to manager | F F 69 | Peritoneum Peritoneum ' 1901 \ ' : 1964 Necropsy Necropsy Negative Negative { Negative Negative | ' 42 End of London Employed packer in pharma ceutical firm for 12 years then housewife until death lived in ast manager London ' ' ' . Dagenham | asaseed d in works | !{ Tilbury d housewife { 53 PleurPaleura ! MM H 18198922 19614964 Necropsy Positive Negative , 24 ' : Fisherman fireman docker 1915- 39 at docks fireman and finally storekeeper contact with years : aros general For 30 years in \ : i : : ' : . ; : ' ; j| i H ' asbestos not probable at Tilbury docks lived Tilbury area 1 ; re re sed marriage Waltham wife in Last and greaser > 36 years Og Sinus ing empyema Section F Untraced cases S F 78 78 | PPlleeuurra a F 83 | PiePuriaeura |M 81 PlPleeura ura | 3030 PlPleeuraura M | Z Z 1893 1893 1860 1877 1900 Positive Necropsy ' 1917 , Necropsy | ? 1 Positive + | | | 1922 Necropsy Necropsy Negative Negative Negative Negative | | 1 H 1925 Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative , { Necropsy | | Negative Negative | 1936 | Necropsy| Negative Necropsy Necropsy Negative | Negative ; fection fection 195 oplasty bbutut date | Necropsy 8282 PlPleuera ura i M 1893 1893 1 ' t Necropsy : 1938 Positive Positive Positive | | | | ; | ! t H | 1 Peritoneum 17 Peritoneum FF ... 1910 1910 1915 Necropy Positive | Positive : | < \ | ' yt Pleura . 1878 I 1878 Necropsy : Positive | : : i 1955 Necropsy Positive Positive i Not traced Not traced , Not traced \ Not traced ' Not traced y Not traced Not traced . continued A -- tissue not available 1 ete Fay ge. set aes ppt , Epa fete Si Eweet; eon i