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I f S6* Discussion About a*bcMo* works or in households of Asbestos workers, but these Art preMinioM) heavier exposures than we now observe in (he general cnvitonnvnl, and die cited of general asbesios nr pollution remains lo he (termed (Suiteort et at., 1912; bi.UKOtr et at.. Ivr.K). Encnuninnilnl Sciences laboratory, Mourn Sinai School of Mritirine, The City Uniiersily, New York, N.y. tttoip, u.s.a. W. J. Nioioiaon A. M. Lingih I. J. Stuxuif evidence Iha which h.n K do noi mloi j. il Irum h pointed up i between nu> f 'rteron , ill 1055 < term. Ih-met, C ol KEFCRCNCLS LamiF.X A. M., SeLIKOFF I. i. and SaSUiI; A. 1)971) C'hry.onic asbestos in llie lungs of persons in New Yoik Cily. Areh. tncirun. t/tfh 22. 3UH-0M. LaniiLX A. M., Ruimn I. B. and Shicoii I. J. (19721 Chemical eharaclcri/aiitm of asbestos body cores by electron microproiv analysis. J tlisiorhem. Cer,,, m-m. 20, 721-714. Niciiouon W. J., Ron A. N. and Fiarami E. F. (1971) Asbesios air poJIiifion in New York Cily. T m v t'Vf i the nuiiTu cniurMmn.ii c *rvi.* 1 > appc:fa>.v In true. Second International Clean Air Congress (lidned by Unoloso H. M. and Bfrav W. 7.) pp. I3&-I39. Academic Press. New York. Foouv ('. D,, Ouiiiam H. D., Um C. and Waiistk J. C. (H'Oi The drlrction of asbestos in tissues. In /'iieuiuoroniu.w'j: Pmc. Inleriittiianol Cmif. Johannesburg, I9u9 (lidilcd by Siiafiko II. A.) have been I more itkd) O'Kfu * (l 1 he indi pp. 108-1 tfi. Oxford University Press. Oxford. Sri.ixori I. J,, Nicholson W, J. and Lam;i.k A. M. (I9?2t Avhcsios Air |illulion. Arch. Entiton. Hllh 25. 1-1). JiiLiKoir I. J. and 1Iammond E. C. (1968) Community dice is of non-mxupationnl environmental asbestos exposure. Am. J. Pub. Hllh 58, IC58-I666. CJUSU'OvC Pc/hitr^ i and puiuu aibcilnsi**' Asbestos w. And Ci/uia ^ . I960) Andf OviAsenTAnvt results for the concentration of asbestos in New York. City areValuable and a reprodu w * not occupy (DalouUk cibility indicated by a difference of only two or three limes is impressive. Values for (he 49 other cities tcil) tv of great interest. The efTek readily ren The difference shown hy these figures between concentrations of asbestos fibres near to a [soinl at probably t which asbestos was being sprayed and the concentrations found in the general atmosphere was little tirnihr /at . vmore than the difference between duplicate sample* estimated in the laboratory, except when the.-..; 'VI. other vAnt 7?' sampling wss carried out irnmedlatefy downwind.frooh'*o6eoe.'XhH j>obves'lhat,there Is.widespread ijs Jnd rapidd^Mt^liwbf^he dui^ftw^be'j)^ df 6f^^.^?,^^^^^'^r^^^t''~ - r- '&, CfSts^i needed to The neighbourhood hazard hat again been emphasized in a report given by W. Douchd at the meet- in rats wit .. ing of the InternationalSocieties foe Hygiene, Preventive and Social Medicine* 1972. The report showed . w `^v lhal,^4fte. J9G patients with mesothelioma reporiedfr ihe efijr ofHaroburg. JJ had no known':.H> j&SFQiaS&Z / - tSepartmet '* ihdustfSaf exposure to asbestosTsut had lived in the neighbourhood ofr asbestos factories. Thh indi-' University cates the importance of independent surveys of the type carried out by SclikolTand his collaborators. Berkshire. The object or our investigation was only to ddcrminc whether asbestos fibres are present in the atmosphere of towns where there is no asbestos industry. The result was positive in every case. .Department ajCbemliiirf}___^ University ofBeading', 'V.WclRVfS Berkshire. >; DISCUSSION ASBESTOS FIBRES IN THE AIR OF TOWNS* ,, Tksavjhom stress the frequency wfth which asbestos fibres are found in human sunt n.>i'-.iJr-vr-'r:v.'.'."- r.\. ',* - *. '.p>a.,v P. F. HOLT and D. K. YounO (1971) Atmospheric Environment 7, 481--483. ^^Bothasi S . r preaenir^cS Bothaw S crocido DaLQI'U r prclimii FLncuiR Got i> U.. Kivii-fot anth' Lush t e I pm . Ntwhol* SlLISOfl Am. 0000 1400 "?w PRODUCED BY FORD