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INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
EDITORS
DAVID L. EDSALL, M. D.. S. D, United States EDGAR L. COLLIS, M. D.. M. R. C. S.t Great Britain
VOLUME XI
JANUARY. 1929--DECEMBER. 1929
THE CHEMICAL LIBRARY*
PUBLISHED BY
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Boston, Mass.
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United State* David L. Edsall, M.D., S.D.
EDITORS Great Britain
E. L. Collib, M.D., M.R.C.S.
HONORARY CONSULTING EDITOR Snt Thomas M. Legoe, M.D., D.F.H.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
United State*
W. Irving Clark, Jb., M.D. Lxland E. Coper, M.D. Alice Hamilton, A.M., M.D.
Emebt R. Hathurst, A.M., Ph.D., M.D.
Yandell Henderson, Ph.D.
Great Britain
W. F. Dxabdbn, M.R.C.S., D.P.H.
Sib Kbnnxth Goadbt, K.B.E., M.R.C.S., D.P.H.
Lsonabd Hill, M.B., F.R.S.
T. Listeb Llewellyn, B.S., M.D., M.I.M.E,
Habbt E. Mock, M.D.
L. R. Thompson, M.D. C.-E. A. Winslow,
M.S., A.M., Dr.P.H.
William P. Yant, B.S.
Sib Thomas Oliver, M.D.
R. Pbossbr Whitb, M.D., M.R.C.S.
H. M. Vbrnon, A.M., M.D.
D. A. Coleb, M.D.
South Africa
E. R. Clover, A.M., M.D., B.Ch., D.P.H.
Canada
Australia
J. J. R. Maclbod, M.B.
H. W. Abiht, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
MANAGING EDITORS
Cecil K. Drinker, M.D.
Philip Drinker, B.S., Ch.E.
Mabion C. Shorlet
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^ CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI
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JANUARY, 1929. NUMBER 1
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^Thb Fate or Old Employees. W. Irving Clark, M.D., Worcester,
s Mass............................................................................................................... 1
The Evaluation of Physical Defects Found during Preemploy-
uent Examinations. C. O. Sappington, M.D., Dr.P.H., Medical
Director, Montgomery Ward and Company, Oakland, Calif.................. 6
The Physiology of Industrial Hygiene: III. The Physiology of
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Industrial Fatigue. R. J. S. McDowall, D.Sc., M.B., F.R.C.P. (Edin.), Professor of Physiology, King's College, University of London.
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The Development of Industrial Hygiene in Australia. H. W. Armit,
Sydney, Australia......................................................................................... 17
Book Notices...................................................................................................... 36
FEBRUARY, 1929. NUMBER 2
Silicosis among Rock Drillers, Blasters, and Excavators in New York City, Based on a Study of 208 Examinations
-iv \*I. Introduction.........................................................'.................................... ' II. Silicosis among Rock Drillers, Blasters, and Excavators in
New York City. Adelaide Ross Smith, M.D. From the Depart ment of Medicine and the Department of Industrial Hygiene, DeLamar Institute of Public Health, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Presbyterian Hospital.. HI. A Study of Silica Dust in Hard Rock Drilling in New York City. J. William Fehnel, B.Sc., Chief Chemist, Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene of the Industrial Health Service, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York City.............................................. IV. Conclusions................................................................................................ V. Recommendations...................................................................................... Book Notices......................................................................................................
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MARCH, 1929. NUMBER 3
Cross Connections between Industrial and Public Water Sup
plies. E. Sherman Chase, Metcalf & Eddy, Engineers, Boston, Mass...............................................................................................................
Dust Hazard in the Abrasive Industry: Second Study. W. Irving Clark, M.D., Norton Company, Worcester, Mass.......................
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Absenteeism in Coal Miners. H. M. Vernon, M.D., and T. Bed ford, Ph.D., Investigators for the Industrial Fatigue Research Board, London, assisted by C. G. Warner, B.Sc................................................... 97
Book Notices.......................................................................................... '... 105
APRIL, 1929. NUMBER 4
The Cost of Free Advice. Tuberculosis in an Industrial Group. E. W. Phillips, M.D., Phoenix, Ariz.......................................................... 107
Nervous Illness in Industry. Millais Culpin, M.D., F.R.C.S................. 114 Lead Absorption and Compensation. May R. Mayers, M.A., M.D.,
Bureau of Industrial Hygiene, New York State Department of Labor.. 124 Book Notices................................................................................................. 138
MAY, 1929. NUMBER 5
Enameled Sanitary Ware Manufacture. Alice Hamilton, M.D............ 139 Experimental Electric Shock. U. R. W. Ian Urquhart, M.A.,
M.D. (Tor.), and E. Clark Noble, M.A., M.B. (Tor.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.). From the Laboratory of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada....................................................................................... 154 Book Notices................................................................................................. 173
JUNE, 1929. NUMBER 6
The Effect of Rubbing Down and Scraping by Dry Process of Lead Painted Surfaces of Iron and Steel Structures. L. C. McNair and C. W. Price, H. M. Engineering Inspectors of Factories, London.. 175
A Study of Exposure to Calcium Dusts Generated in the Manu facture of Portland Cement. L. R. Thompson, M.D., Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, and Dean K. Brundage, A.B., Assistant Statistician, United States Public Health Service................. 182
The Progress and Present Status of Industrial Hygiene in the Union of South Africa. E. H. Cluver, M.A., M.D., D.P.H., Assistant Health Officer for the Union of South Africa........................... 194
Book Notices................................................................................................. 215
SEPTEMBER, 1929. NUMBER 7
The Tuberculosis League, the Sanatorium, and Industry. Bernard S. Coleman, Executive Secretary, Hudson County (N. J.) Tuber culosis League........................................................................................... 217
Silicosis with Low Incidence of Tuberculosis. Emery R. Hayhurst, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Hygiene, Ohio State University, and Con sultant in Industrial Hygiene, Ohio State Department of Health; Daniel J. Kindel, B.S., M.D., Former Chief, Division of Industrial Hygiene, Ohio State Department of Health; Byron E. Neiswander, M.D., Chief, Division of Industrial Hygiene, Ohio State Department of Health, Columbus, Ohio; and Clarence D. Barrett, M.D., C.P.H., Health Commissioner of Lorain County, Oberlin, Ohio........................... 228
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gyoDiss on Experimental Pneumonokoniobis. IV. The Separation of Particulate Matter Smaller than Screen Sizes into Graded Fractions. Donald E. Cummings, B.S. From the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of/Tuberculosis, the Edward L. Trudeau Foundation. 245
OCTOBER, 1929. NUMBER 8
Industrial Workshops and their Importance in Relation to Placing the Handicapped. Rufus B. Crain, M.D., in Charge of Adult Cardiac Clinic, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, N. Y.; Member of Industrial Workshops Committee, Rochester, N. Y................................. 257
Respiratory Diseases in a Portland Cement Plant. L. R. Thompson, M.D., Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, and Dean K. Brundage, A.B., Assistant Statistician, United States Public Health Service.......................................................................................................... 266
Calibration of the Kata-Thermometer over a Wide Range of Air Conditions. C. P. Yaglou and Kroum Dokoff, Department of Ven tilation and Illumination, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass............................................................................................................. 278
Book Notices................................................................................................... 291
NOVEMBER, 1929. NUMBER 9
The Evaluation of 5 and 7 Per Cent. Carbon Dioxide Mixtures as Respiratory Stimulants. Emery Heller, M.D., Walter Killiches, M.D., and Cecil K. Drinker, M.D. From the Department of Physiol ogy, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass................................. 293
The Use of 7 Per Cent. Carbon Dioxide and 93 Per Cent. Oxygen in the Treatment of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Cecil K. Drinker, M.D., and Thomas J. Shaughnessy. From the Depart ment of Physiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass... 301
Some Physiologic Reactions to Cooling Power during Work, with Special Reference to Evaporation of Water. J. Argyll Camp bell and T. C. Angus. From the National Institute for Medical Re search, Hampstead, London....................................................................... 315
Book Notices...................................................................................................................... 328
DECEMBER, 1929. NUMBER 10
A Study of the Carbon Monoxide Content of the Blood of Steel Mill Operatives. Chester J. Farmer and P. Jeanette Crittenden. From the Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University Medi cal School, Chicago, 111................................................................................ 329
A Method for the Rapid Determination of Dust in Air. L. C. Jjj*' McNair, B.Sc., and J. F. Hirst, B.Sc., A.I.C. From the Govem** ment Laboratory, London.......................................................................... 336
^ - Determination of Small Amounts of Benzene Vapors in Air. Henry F. Smyth, Jr., B.S. in Ch.E. From the School of Hygiene and ^"lic Health, University of Pennsylvania, and the private laboratory of Henry Field Smyth and the author...................................................... 338
Noticeb...................................................................................................................... 349
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SUBJECT INDEX TO VOLUME XI
This is a subject index to all the reading matter in the Journal of Industrial Hy giene, and one should, therefore, look for the subject word, with the following exoeption: "Book Notices" are indexed under this title on page 353. The name of the author follows the subject entry in parenthesis.
For author index, see page 353.
Abrasive industry, dust hazard in (Clark)................................................ 92
Absenteeism in coal miners (Vernon,
Bedford, and Warner)...................... 97 Atmospheric conditions, physiologic
reactions to cooling power during
work (Campbell ana Angus).......... 315 Australia, industrial hygiene in
17
Fatigue, industrial, physiology of (McDowall)........
Handicapped, rehabilitation of, see Rehabilitation.
Industrial hygiene in Australia (Armit)...................................................... 17
hygiene in South Africa (Cluver).... 194
Benzene vapors in air, determination of small amounts of (Smyth)......... 338
Blood of steel mill operatives, carbon monoxide content of (Farmer and Crittenden)........................................ 329
facture of Portland cement (Thompson and Brundage)............. 182 Carbon Dioxide, 5 and7 per cent, mix tures as respiratory stimulants (Heller, Killicnes, and Drinker)... 293 7 per cent, mixture in treatment of car bon monoxide poisoning (Drinker and Shaughnessy)............................. 301 Carbon Monoxide content of blood of steel mill operatives (Farmer and Crittenden)........................................ 329 poisoning, 7 per cent, carbon dioxide mixture in treatment of (Drinker and Shaughnessy)............................. 301 Cement, Portland, exposure to calcium dusts in manufacture of (Thomp son and Brundage)........................... 182 Portland, plant, respiratory diseases in (Thompson ana Brundage)....... 266 Coal miner, see Miner, coal.
Dust, calcium, exposure to, in manufac ture of Portland cement (Thomp son and Brundage)........................... 182
hazard in abrasive industry (Clark). 92 in air, method for rapid aetermina-
tion of (McNair ana Hirst)........ . 336 separation of particulate matter
smaller than screen sizes into graded fractions (Cummings)........ 245
Electric shock, experimental (Urquhart and Noble)................................ 154
Kata-Thermometer, calibration of, over wide range of air conditions (Yaglou and Dokoff)........................278
physiologic reactions to cooling power during work (Campbell ana Angus)................................................. 315
Lead absorption and compensation (Mayersy........................................... 124
hazard in rubbing down and scraping lead painted surfaces (McNair ana Price)................................................... 175
Miner, coal, absenteeism in (Vernon, Bedford, andWarner)....................... 97
Nervous illness inindustry (Culpin).. 114
Old Age, fate of old employees (Clark)............................................. 1
Physical defects found during preem ployment examinations (Sappington)...................................................... 6
Physiologic reactions to cooling power during work (Campbell and Angus)................................................. 315
Rehabilitation, importance of indus trial workshops in placement of handicapped (Crain)........................ 257
Respiration, stimulation of, by 5 and 7 per cent, carbon dioxide mixtures (Heller, Killiohes, and Drinker)... 293
Respiratory diseases in Portland ce ment plant (Thompson and Brun dage).................................................... 266
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Rocx driller*, blester*, and excavator* in New York City, silicosis among............................................... 37
Sanitabt Wabs, enameled, manufac ture of (Hamilton).......................... 139
Silicosis among rock drillers, blasters, and excavators in New York City.................................................. 37 with low inoidenee of tuberculosis (Hayhurst, Kindel, Neiswander, and Barrett)....................................228
South Arnica, industrial hygiene in (Cluver)........................................... 194
8tbxl mill operatives, carbon monoxide content of blood of (Farmer and Crittenden)...................................... 329
Tubebculosib in industrial group, cost of free advice (Phillips).................. 107
league, sanatorium, and industry (Coleman)......................................... 217
silicosis with low incidence of (Hay hurst, Kindel, Neiswander, and Barrett).............................................. 228
Waves supplies, industrial and pub lic. cross connections between
(Chase)....................................... 86
Workmen's Compensation law, lead absorption and (Mayers)................ 124
Workshops, industrial, importance of. in placement of handicapped *8 (Crain).............................................. 257
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BOOK NOTICES
Beaumont, W.: Experiments and Ob
Goiter prevention and thyroid protec
servations on the Gastric Juice and
tion (Bram).......................................... 36
the Physiology of Digestion.............. 340 Gosney, E. 8., and Popenoe, P.: Sterili
Biophysics, introduction to (Bums)... 291 zation for Human Betterment...........350
Boluuan, C. F.: Publio Health and Hy
Gymnastics, fundamental, as basis
giene. A Students' Manual.............. 138 of rational physical development
Bram. I.: Goiter Prevention and Thy-
(Bukh).._............................................... 36
roia Protection..................................... 38 Health legislation and health protec
Brown, M. A.: Teaching Health in
tion (Engelsmann)................................ 138
Fargo...................................................... 292 Health of mind (Rees)........................... 350
Bukh, N.: Fundamental Gymnastics.
Health, public, and hygiene, manual
The Basis of Rational Physical De
for students (Bolduan)....................... 138
velopment............................................... 36 Health, road to (Winslow).................... 349
Bums, D.: An Introduction to Bio
Health, teaching of, in Fargo (Brown).. 292
physics.................................................. 291 Heart disease, criteria for classification
Camps, water program for (Cureton).. 292 and diagnosis of................................... 292
Cancer, conquest of, by radium and
Human factor in industry (Cathcart).. 82
other methods (Quigley).................... 292 Hygiene, fundamentals of (Eugling)... 328
Cathoart, E. P.: The Human Factor in
Hygiene, textbook (Dresel)................... 105
Industry................................................. 82 Hyman, A. S., see Parsonnet, A. E.
Chajes, B.: Grundriss der Berufskunde
Ibotson, E. C.: Partnerships, Com
una Berufshygiene........................... 215 binations and Antagonisms in Dis
Child, working, school and (Clapp and
ease....................................................... 106
Strong).................................................... 83 Industrial hygiene, fundamentals of
Clapp, M. A., and Strong, M. A.: The
(Chajes)............................................... 215
Sohool and the Working Child.......... 83 Lochtkemper, see Teleky.
Cureton, T. K., Jr.: A Water Program
Lord, F. T.: Pneumonia........................ 106
for Camps, for Camp Waterfront
Medicine, clinical, for nurses (Ringer). 350
Leaders and Camp Directors............ 292 Metal grinders of Solingen, dust hazard
Curtis, R. E.: Economics: Principles
of (Teleky, Lochtkemper, Rosenthal-
and Interpretation.............................. 36 Deussen. and Derdack)...................... 173
Derdack, see Teleky.
Mind, health of (Rees).......................... 350
Dermatergoses or occupational affec-
Myers. C. S.: Industrial Psychology... 349
. tione, of skin (White).......................... 83 Neurology, clinical, textbook of. for
Digestion, physiology of (Beaumont).. 349 students and practitioners (Neu-
Disease, partnerships, combinations,
staedter)............................................... 106
and antagonisms in (Ibotson)........... 106 Neustaedter, M.: Textbook of Clinical
Dresel, E. G.: Lehrbuch der Hygiene
Neurology, for Students and Practi
for Studierende, Arzte und GeBund-
tioners................................................... 106
heitsbehftrden....................................... 105 Nurses, clinical medicine for (Ringer). 350
Dunton, W. R., Jr.: Prescribing Occu
Occupational therapy (Dunton)........... 292
pational Therapy................................ 292 Parsonnet, A. E., and Hyman, A. 8.:
Dust hazard of metal grinders of Solingen (Teleky, Lochtkemper, Rosen-
Applied Electrocardiography...............350 Pear, T. H.: Fitness for Work............. 82
thal-DeuBsen, and Derdack)............. 173 Pneumonia (Lord).................................. 106
Economics, principles and interpreta tion (Curtis)........................................ 36
Electrocardiography, applied (Parsonnet and Hyman).................................. 350
Engelsmann, R.: Grundriss der Gesundheitsgesetzgebung und der Gesundheitsfursorge................................ 138
Eugling, M.: GrundzOge derHygiene.. 328
Eye, pathology of (Friedenwald)......... 350
Eyster, J. A. E.: The Clinical Aspects
ofVenous Pressure.............................. 292 First Aid and ambulance for factories
and workshops..................................... 173
Fitness for work (Pear)........................ 82
Friedenwald, J. S.: The Pathology of the Eye................................................. 350
Popenoe, P., see Gosney. E. S.
Psychology, industrial (Myers)............ 349 Quigley, D. T.: The Conquest of Can
cer by Radium and Other Methods.. 292 Racial hygiene, practical discussion of
eugenics and race culture (Rice)___ 106 Rees, J. R.: The Health of tne Mind.. 350 Rice, T. B.: Racial Hygiene: A Practi
cal Discussion of Eugenics and Race
Culture................................................. 106 Ringer, P. H.: Clinical Medicine for
Nurses..................................................... 350
Rosenthal-Deussen, E.. see Teleky. School and working child (Clapp and
Strong)................................................ 83 Skin affections, occupational, dermat
ergoses (White)................................... 83
Gastric juice, experiments and observa
Sterilization for human betterment
tions on (Beaumont).......................... 349
(Gosney and Popenoe)......................... 350
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8trong, M. A.. ttt Clapp, M. A. Teleky,Ixxjhtkemper, Rosenthal-Deua-
sen, K., and Dordack: Staubgef&hrdung and Staubsohidigungen der Metallsnhlelfer insbesonaere der dee
bergiaohen Lands*............................... 173 Thyroid protection and goiter preven
tion (Bram).......................................... 36
Venou* pressure, clinical aspects of (Eyster).................................................. 292
Water program for camps (Cureton)... 292
White, R. P.: The Dermatergoses or
Occupational Affections of the Skin....................................................... 83 Winslow, C.-E. A.: The Road to Health.................................................... 349
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Angus, T. C., see Campbell, J. A.
Heller, E., Killiches, W., and Drinker,
Annit, H. W.: The Development of In
C. K.: The Evaluation of 5 and 7 Per
dustrial Hygiene in Australia........... 17 Cent. Carbon Dioxide Mixtures as
Respiratory Stimulants...................... 293
Barrett. C. D., see Hayhurst, E. R.
Hirst, J. F., see McNair, L. C.
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Bedford, T.. see Vernon, H. M. Brundage, D. K., see Thompson, L. R.
Killiches, W., see Heller, E.
(2). Kindel, D. J., see Hayhurst, E. R.
Campbell. J. A., and Angus, T. C.: Some Physiologic Reactions to Cool ing Power during Work, with Special Reference to Evaporation of Water.. 315
Chase, E. S.: Cross Connections be tween Industrial and Public Water
Supplies................................................. 85 Clark, W. I.: The Dust Hazard in the
Abrasive Industry. Second Study... 92
Clark, W. I.: The Fate of Old Em ployees.................................................. 1
Cluver, E. H.: The Progress and Pres
Mayers, M. R.: Lead Absorption and Compensation........................................ 124
McDowall, R. J. S.: The Physiology of Industrial Hvgiene: III. The Phy siology of Industrial Fatigue............. 12
McNair, L. C., and Hirst, J. F.: A
Method for the Rapid Determina tion of Dust in Air............................... 336 McNair, L. C., and Price, C. W.: The Effect of Rubbing Down and Scraping
by Dry Process of Lead Painted Sur
faces of Iron and Steel Structures... 175
ent Status of Industrial Hygiene in
the Union of SouthAfrica................. 194 Neiswander. B. E., see Hayhurst, E. R.
Coleman, B. S.: The Tuberculosis
Noble, E. C., see Urquhart, R. W. I.
League, the Sanatorium, and Industry................................................ 217
Crain, R. B.: Industrial Workahops and their Importance in Relation to
Placing the Handicapped................... 257
Phillips, E. W.: The Cost of Free Ad vice. Tuberculosis in an Industrial Group.................................................... 107
Price, C. W., see McNair, L. C.
Crittenden, P. J., see Farmer, C. J. Culpin, M.: Nervous Illness in In
dustry.................................................... 114
Cummings. D. E.: Studies on Experi
mental Pneumonokoniosis. IV. The Separation of Particulate Matter Smaller than Screen Sizes into Graded
Fractions............................................... 245
Sappington.C. 0.: The Evaluation of
Physical Defects Found during Preemployment Examinations................ Shaughnessy. T. J,} see Drinker, C. K. Smith, A. R.-. Silicosis among Rock Drillers, Blasters, and Excavators in New York City....................................
Smyth, H. F., Jr.: The Determination
6 39
Dokoff, K., see Yaglou, C. P. Drinker, C. K., and Shaughnessy, T.
of Small Amounts of Benzene Vapors in Air...................................................... 338
J. : The Use of 7 Per Cent. Carbon Dioxide and 93 Per Cent. Oxygen in
the Treatment of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.............................................. 301
Drinker, C. K., see Heller, E.
Thompson, L. R., and Brundage, D. K.:
Respiratory Diseases in a Portland Cement Plant....................................... 266
Thompson, L. R., and Brundage, D. K.: A Study of Exposure to Calcium
Parmer, C. J., and Crittenden, P. J.: A Study of the Carbon Monoxide Con
Dusts Generated in the Manufacture of Portland Cement.............................. 182
tent of the Blood of Steel Mill
Urquhart, R. W. I., and Noble, E. C.:
Operatives............................................. 329
Experimental Electric Shock. II... 154
Fennel, J. W.: A Study of Silica Dust
in Hard Rock Drilling in New York City....................................................... 69
Vernon, H. M., Bedford, T., and War ner, C. G.: Absenteeism in Coal
Miners................................................... 97
Hamilton, A.: Enameled Sanitary
Ware Manufacture.............................. 139 Warner, C. G., see Vernon, H. M.
Hayhurst, E. R., Kindel, D. J., Neis-
*
E., and Barrett, C. D.:
Yaglou, C.P., and Dokoff, K.: Calibra
jjiuooais with Low Incidence of
tion of the Kata-Thermometer over a
Tuberculosis........................................... 228 Wide Range of Air Conditions.......... 278
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