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'M ill Founded 1844 asbestos textile institute P. 0. BOX 230 75 CENTER ST., POMPTON LAKES. N. J. 07442 U. S. A. fMMt 139*2216 Alts cad* 901 18 January 1965 Mr. J. T. Griffis H. K. Porter Co., Inc. ThermoId Division CharLotte, N. C. \ Gentlemen: I am attaching an article which was written and appeared In "The Plain Dealer", January 12, 1965 In Cleveland, Ohio. We have already received several Inquiries on this report from customers. Although this lists various occupations having significantly high lung cancer mortality rates, it certainly is alarming as far as our industry ia concerned. I think that this article should be the subject of some con versation* in our Board of Governors meeting in February. Very truly yours v /ftlu'iA. A. 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Amongj the asbestos insulation work, era studied, more than one in three deaths was from can or those who do insuiationl basic industrial hygiene con-! cbssalbuwioohehnnooTnsndciiioplrhtsceoknouetrsamsbtmrhb,euaepeeossirtlrirruuedsaosstcpeidmahiaarutnwslhenimcar,edmovtmssoraobtlkeseohreioeitnlnofo-rnfr;nbgsesuseosucs,Ahtrorisimnoltnnaarfreacfibeeoolidrrodmorrfoeimretcaaehseanansnderstnds-,r,]]oftmlva(errnuicoosseTascsmialhootisemnuodthunteneharoatfeaasenibfcsls)oifSuareoveiw0rdnneer0pecosotqeyrsw.srukmmtTtoaiaspfhotaoetltefohlrielncyipamrmeepdrestco.lsha",voesenewomtntnfsshmpttetiirfcvcroioitheiscf!j ally exposed to it. tee formed at the request ufj Surgeon General Luther L. This was reported recently by Dr. Robert J. Anderson, ctiief! of the Bureau of State Serv ices of the U.S. Public Health Service. Workmen listed as having significantly high lung cancer! mortality rates were: black- smiths, forgemen, hammer men, carpenters, auto me chanics and repairmen, metal moiders, construction .paint-! cer. ' , SOME RESEARCHERS] Terry to develop a program! brs, paperhangers and glaz-' From such circumstantial! from foreign countries report to -improve environmentall^ers, plumbers and pipefitters, evidence the need for protec ed development of cancer in health. The committee, stationary engineers, tailors tion of such workers Cram ia*jwives of asbestos workers,] headed by Dr. Paul M. Gross.) and furriers, tinsmiths; cop halation of asbestos becomes! who washed their husbands' professor of chemistry, Duke persmiths and sheet metal dear. dothes, in dry cleaners who] University, spent a year on workers; operatives la pri These workers represent] handled such clothes, in peo4 the assignment mary metal industries and. only om small sampling ofjPk 10 the neighborhood] One of the committee's rec-![elevator operators. *' the thousands w'-o are ex of asbestos factories or along],b&tmendaJons will be carried An occupational health sec posed to asbestos. They wcrel the route by said to be "primarily engaged! was hauled. which asbestos out with the establishment of) tion in the report by Dr. a national center for environ Gross' committee concluded: in construction work in which The asbestos industry is| mental sciences "for an .en "There is a widening-gap. be they have relativdy light in only one of many believed to hanced and major national ef tween the new materials be termittent exposure to asbes-jlinvolve increased cancer] fort in environmental health." ing created and an under tos-containing insulation .ma hazards ' to workers and the! The center will cost more than standing of' their effects on terials." . public, that are being handled! $2S million. It will be situated living systems . . . The indus They did not- indude' "non.| inadequately or not at all on a 400-acre tract in South trial worker is first exposed Carolina in the Raleigh-Dur-j to the chemicals that - find, ham-Chapel Hill area, it was their way into home use. j announced last week. "Industry is the incubator] IT IS BELIEVED that for problems of more reaching consequence farand scarcely the surface has been ^scratched in uncovering! alert, scientifically sound and unbiased investigations of oc American occupational dis cupational health problems ease hazards. During the past can provide bases for later! jyear an analysis of luiig can-! community-w i d e -investiga jeer mortality 'in the entire by occuoattan United States, tions." j -has revealed U occupations Next: The Personal Smog.) - --------------------------- --n u