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front tb* daskjol-- R. HEATH LARRY <NW YORK) MERLE BUNDY, M.D. Director, Industrial Medicine Do we have anything like this? R.H.L. May 24, 1972 attachment "A :>? sj?!?> - .A7h^' Ca^Ger':Ksvs . Jersey '-.Town 3' -Tifftises --i .ouorkva.^rodoeed.AlmUar w findings, warns: rif the Jeo-cTj sons tof the past have not.' n .' nOBEXT VAKB 0 April *S 1*^ *6 rn M published c (vo-pert se re OM SsbfrtOS p0i*0i*<7 I* MMeiiie, y./, * (OWC JO (Jet eojcriheest a/ .Vtv -k CUf and komt of tha arid*# largest erbertoe pro* step plant. Tha Incident* ( tfmtwr ad hoip ailntciUs aom? worker* * xexer&ere is Afasrffls is leorjiately Wgh-- patter* at- deaths before that date--an excess of almost 60 per cent. At the outset It should be noted that the number ad deaths- recorded did not 1ft* elude employes who died be fore being exposed for SO yean. Moreover, Dr. SeUkoff pointed out that since the monthly rates among work ers are always lower Una among noo*work*re -- ade quate health being a prereq .J*; \ * been learned, then we wtU 'x . beta statistically expected. hutg cancer. Some 360 art Ocatbd Avert due to asbes- fare very serious situation/ $; Deane fir. Sallkatt fated In died of asbestorts; torts. ` t >. ^ We must pretect our future' j * smarted 101 deaths resulting f from all ether ansa -- r roughly the same number :*hat had been anticipated*-- -Jse cenduded that the 80 per . cost higJKrdath rate among :ih# workers eoutd be entire ly. ascribed to the extensive .occurrence ef'the asbestos -related diseases; about 250 of me*otbel!c<na; and about 210 from gsttrw 'intestinal earner. Stm Dr, Srilkofr* research did produce what he ailed *a hopeful finding.** Tho death rates among ^ptant workers assigned to areas that were comparaded/ free of asbestos dust were lower **Nature It showing us that we on cut dewn thesadaths by flcsnjng up the asbes tos.** says DA SeUkoft, a pio neer te the field ef industrial ` ailments. "And there la KtUe doubt that we hare the tceh* oology to reduce the dust i count.. *v *r j gvocratiooe." o 7n the eourse of his re- ^ earch. Or. frtlkoff worked'3 AostAy `with the asbestos-^ woekwa* tuteo. Local 600 of- r the United Fapcmaker* and. o Paperwarkcre. * AavtaTtssMsxr tfiotttfcevmost coming sta- thaa those vrfto had worked "The results we found are ibutait* to asbestos e*- uisite of abUlty to perform ` tthdtanara yet to eotae. Based * te areas wtth high eonccn- the .legacy of the past," he aewrs. Three diseases art work -- the excess deaths : ififtty experiences -tratfcMs of the mineral. added., "The legacy ef the i: riitrlfaBy associated vtth ibetfoe UUkdM; Ike# sneer; sebeetorte. * dlsaUg assd nwctfWM fatal lung inuust, and mrsoetrtfcma, uv and incnmbU typo ef among the - Manvllle plant e( Uha workers under workers studied era era* irtady. Or. SeUkoff was able mace dismaying thaa the . .tnifonnmUU some sUggcr- statistics reveal. i ihsg.predictions. Why the surfeit of deaths? <Of(the 8000 employes who The asses were not difficult were-working at the Jcfcss- Furthermore, te the areas with a low quotients as bestos dust, less than 30 per oat of the deaths resulted front asbestos!*: whereas te the textile axes*, where as 1940s .and 3950s when pre- autlons were.Inadequate. It was based on the ignorance of alt of ua.'It shows.what you don't know can hurt you." inccr. to Identify. McnviHelplant te 1934, about bestos dust Is most preva '`And fir. SeilfcoX whose A yeor ago, Dr. Irving SeH~ It was not particularly sur 400.an'>-- ----ted to die of lent, about 37 per ant of the previous studies at asbestos off, head of tha Diablo* / prising that 24 ef the deatlt* .-uKrwm*!( Medicine C resulted from nsbestosls. Jy CMcrrrfftr*s Jftfwrt Steel Alter all asbestos!* ft a dis dlocl of .Vetkina, under. ease that cannot be eeo- x& e* in-depth study of tka traded without exposure to Acdkmi klerorirs of 69 asbestos.* `toper e/ lA* Mcneillc plant, efcicb te waned by the Johns- Susceptibility 'JameJUs Corp. The real source of the un happily high death rale Dr: Artie*//** purpose vat among the ManvlUe workers 0 ixoeatlgata tke effect* of can be readily traced to their j' t exposure among (At susceptibility to canetr. by comparing the V .7 of death* and dtcosea observed tdth tka ex- >eefed vertelKy rets* in tAf jeueral papulatfo*. Sine* trcckms studies suggested :K*s eabextOKviaUd *11*. According to calculations based on the general popula tion, only eight deaths frees cancer ef the lung were to be expected. Yet smoog the Miavitte workers there were 4cxk seldom develop until 37 such deaths -- a 330 per t<3 yam after initial expo- cent Increase. jure to (At duct particles. Dr. Mesothelioma, a cancer so Settkoff Waited Alt research rare that it strikes only to workers who veer* employ- about coo la 10,000 In the gen 01 as of 'dan. J, JM9, and eral population, accounted vJM" were.: employed foe a for IS deaths. miaimxmref SO poor*, too. ' -Only five gastrointestin tors of age,' see, and year al (stomach, colon and rec mere taken lata eaneUera. tum! cancers were to be tbsu Bar* ora the results of expected. Yet there were 13 tke JfwreOa study, released deaths In that category. And by Dr,'tsOkoft to The fast where 14 deaths from can today. 'V \ cers at other sites were te According to the standard mortality tables. U< deaths be expected, there were ac tually IT. caul* have beta expected All in aQ. caaccr accounted inoif the 40 asbestos `for 12 deaths among the as workor* br Dec. SI o text bestos workers> Manrlfle, year. Instead there weft 199 three times as many as had V- V- :* ,,v* " *r .