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,ACK )ji the njneteen-rwenties,
THE MAGIC MINERAL
the forces of corrosion and decay under
when the word "asbestos"
almost every condition of temperature
^ frequent))' appeared in large or unquenchable, is a broad term and moisture (and of being resistant as
Unblock letters on the fireproof drop cur- embracing a number of fibrous sili well to the action of most acids, alkalies,
P^tains that closed off the proscenium cate minerals that are found in prac and other chemicals) it is just ahout
^openings of theatre stages, it was cus- tically every country in the world. indestructible. It looks extremely frag
rcatomary in certain parts of the country According to geologists, chrysntifc ile, yet its fibres have* a tensile strength
I; for youngsters attending Saturdav- asbestos--a variety of the mineral equal to that of piano wire. Apparent
.jnatinec performance? of "Charley's that accounts for nineiy-five per cent of ly as light and feathery ns thistle- or
"Aunt" or "The Vagabond King" or the world's production--had its origin eiderdown, it is actually as heavy and
.."Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" millions of years ago, when subterra dense as the rock from which it is
to greet the racing of the asbestos cur nean upheavals provided fractures in extracted. In one sense, then, it-is a
tain with the chant "All school boys serpentine rock which were penetrated fibre of stone. In another sense, how
eat siewcd tomatoes on Saturday!" by water heated in the earth's interior. ever, it is a minernlogical vegetable
This was not, of course, an exercise in Subsequently, these waters dissolved whose fibres are $<> soft and flexible that
mnemonics hut an expression of youth some of the serpentine, and as the "So* they cash he carded, spun, ami woven
ful exuberance, and, to a lesser extent, lutions cooled, fibrous silicate crystals as easily as fibres of cotton or flax.
perhaps, a reflection of the tendency in began to grow within the fractures. Asbt'srns is the only mineral that can
an era celebrated for parochialism and The two other major varieties of as be woven into cloth, and its fibrous
flippancy to dismiss strange and exotic bestos--crocidolite and amositc--orig structure is, if anything even more
substances with jokes. Among older inated through somewhat different amazing than its remarkable ability to
people, it was certain!)' common know]- dynamic and thermal processes in metn- withstand heat. In fact, if it were not
edge that asbestos was noncnnibustible, morphie rock, and their fibres, though for the electron microscope, the extent
for when "Joe and Asbestos"--the similar to chrysotilc, possess different to which asbestos is fibrous would he dif
syndicated comic strip about horse rac structural and chemical properties. Al ficult to believe, for there are approxi
ing---first appeared in the )Ldtimore though known to man as early as the mately a million individual fibrils lying
Sun, in 1925, the stahleboy named As Stone Age, when it was used in pot side by side in a linear inch of chrysotilc
bestos explained to the readership that tery, asbestos was considered a novelty asbestos, whereas only thirty-eight hun
he had acquired his odd moniker be until tile late eighteen-seventies, when dred glass fibrils, such as those found ill
cause "no matter how hot my tips are, it began to he mined on a commercial various insulation materials, or six hun
they'll never burn a hole in your potk- basis. Since then, it lias achieved enor dred and thirty human hairs can he
cthook." Such knowledge was hardly mous industrial importance because of aligned along the same distance. More
universal, however, for it was also true its unique and astonishing physical prop over, in addition in their extreme fine
that a popular put-on of the flapper erries. It appears to be high!)' combusti ness, high tensile strength, unusual flex
age consisted of solemnly assuring a ble, yet it can withstand the fiercest ibility, spinnahjlity, and resistance to heat
. susceptible theatre companion that the heat. It seems as perishable as grass, but and the clemenrs, asbestos fibres pos
funny-looking word on the curtain hy virtue of being almost immune to sess great powers to adsorb and to
^meant "Welcome" in
f. Latin. The fact of the
matter is that although
asbestos was linked one
' wsy or another in the
UTS,
Public mind with fireproof theatre curtains, many
PopJe thought its name
a trademark, few
People knew that it was
utilised in a wide variety of industrial prod-
:hist amf' is of
irn<?4
nly a handful of f^dtea/. researchers were Just then beginning to 5115-
^iat !'r was affecting "" Aalth of the wnrk-
ee '? w])q handled it, and
co 'dually no one had any
ar,i R
ea that it would one
non' -UVtff
,iany
prove to be one of ' ^ost important ind115-
causes of cancer in
ll^orld.
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ancients ns "the magic mineral,'1 was,
in effect, rediscovered less than n hun
dred years ago in rbe age of industrial
expansion, it was put to work.
Since that time, the demand for
7> asbestos has risen almost as fast as the stuff could be mined from the earth
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ami milled from its host rock. In 1 IS79, when the world's first commercial as bestos mine was opened at Thecford, in tin* Province of Quebec, onlv three
hundred tons of the mineral was pro
duced. By 19IU, annual world produc
tion had jumped to thirty thousand
<y\V. -tons; by the, middle thirties, it had in creased to five hundred thousand tons;
and today the total output is more
chan four million tons a .year. Up
Until a lew leafs ago, asbestos was
often called "the mineral of a thou
sand uses" by those who sold it, hut
tin's lalu-l has become obsolete, especial
ly in the Unued States, where it is
estimated that asbestos may have as
many as three thousand different in
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the world, importing nearly a million tons a war, mostly ehrysotile from Canada, and since folly ninety-five per cent of this amount is used in eoiiihinatiofi with other raw materi
als--such as Portland cemem, asphalt,
and vtiul and other plastics--asbestos is
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present as an invisible and anonymous ingredient in a myriad of industrial
products, many of which are never
identified as containing asbestos even
though it mav constitute up to fifty per
Cent of their Content.
The asbestos-cement industry, which
is the principal consumer of die min
eral, makes shingles for roofing and
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siding, sheets for exterior and interior walls, insulation board, clupboard, cas ings for electne motors, pipes to carry -J water, sewage, and gas, and numerous
tidier products* Asbestos textiles are
f used not only in fireproof theatre cur
tains hut also in lagging and other in
sulating wrapping, in. conveyor belting
ami safety clothing, in pot holders,
ironing-hoard covers, draperies, rugs,,
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and motion-picture screens, as filters m gas masks ami in the processing of fruit juices, adds, beer, ami medicines, and
in mailbags, prison-cell padding, no'-
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plane finings, stove and lamp wickSi sparkplugs, and fire hose, The deemenl-vtjuipmvnt industry has depended for wars on asbestos yarn and tape fuf insulating conductors ranging frni fine-gauge wire to heavy cable, woven asbestos friction materials such as brake linings and clutch f
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industrial
machines,
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cloth packings, seals, and gaskets. As
bestos papers and felts are used for _
roofing, for piano padding, for lining j.
stoves, heaters, filing cabinets, military s,.
Paint
helmets, and the mufflers and hoods^ of automobiles, and they also arc found in armored cars, carpets, and car
tridges, and as boiler jackets and radi
ator covers. Asbestos millboard, which:;
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is a heavier version of asbestos paper, 'is used for acoustical ceilings,- as pi
terboard and fireproof wallbo.'-ird, and^
in electric switch boxes, safes,1 - tabl
pads, stove mats, ovens, and dry kilnj
Vinyl and asphalt door .tiles contai
anywhere from thirty to fifty per cent
by weight, of short asbestos fibres, and
the floor-tile industry has become the
second-largest user of die mineral
Since the development of phen
ol-formaldehyde resins in 1909, as
bestos has been used in large quantities
as a reinforcement and filler by the
plastics industry, and today there arc
countless plastic products that contain
asbestos, ranging from frying-pan han
dles to rocket nose cones. Asbestos i?j
also an ingredient of many paints and sealants, of compounds used for roof
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become practically ubiquitous in mod ern society. There is not an automobile, airplane,-"train, ship, missile, or engin of any sort that docs not contain as-j bestos in some form or other, and it has found its way into literally everyj building, factory, home, and farm across the land. And, because its mi nuscule fihres are eminently respirable, asbestos has also found its way into the
lungs of m.in, where, by remaining as
indestructible as it does in nature, it can
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THE. adverse biological effects of asbestos were observed as early as the first century by the Greek geog rapher Strabo and by the Roman nat uralist Pliny the Elder, both of whom mentioned in passing a sickness of the lungs in slaves whose occupation was to weave asbestos into cloth. Strabo and Pliny were calling attention for the first time in history to a disease that wmikl one day be known as asbesto-
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anciems were much too awed by the
magic <>f the mineral to he concerned
with the possibility that it might con
stitute a health hazard. Indeed, their
attitude toward asbestos sometime? bor
dered on- veneration. Strabo and Plu
tarch noted that the "perpetual" wicks
used in the sacred and inextinguisha
ble -lamps of the vestal virgins were
made of asbestos, and Pliny described
asbestos cloth, which had been vised
nr centuries in cremation?, as the rare
;:ntl costly "funeral dress of king?." It
,va.s gcntiraDv assumed in ancient times
that asbestos was of vegetable origin--
Pliny called it "linum vivurn" and
tile second-century Greek topographer
Puusanias referred to it as "the only
linen that is not consumed hy fire"--
;;iul this misconception endured fur
runtimes. (Only a few years ago, a
iiiajor shareholder of an English as
bestos company who was visiting the
source of its supplies in Smith Africa asked the resident manager where the plantations were.) 7'he Romans were especially Impressed hy the fact that when cloth made of asbestos was ex
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posed to flame it always came out
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Why are these five Bermuda resorts among the island's best-loved?
s;m! to have cleaned asbestos dinner napkins hy tossing them into the fire,
Because of the special attention you get.
'Hie use of asbestos in Europe ap pears to have diminished greatly during the Dark Ages, although it is said that the Emperor Charlemagne convinced
Thera urc five Bermuda resorts that have a certain .something, quite unique among re sorts anywhere in the world.
People say it's like being taken into a
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some warrior guests from a rival king dom that he possessed magic powers hy throwing an asbestos tablecloth into tla- fire and them withdrawing it, un scathed, from the flames. In rhe larrer pari of the thirteenth century, when the indefatigable Venetian traveller Mar co Polo was traversing a part of Si beria then known as the Great Em
friendly private club. There's a house party under the stars.
atmosphere plus thoughtful personal atten Wherever you stay, in a cottage-for-two
tion that makes people fall in love with these or for all the family, or a room-with-terrace
resorts. And keep returning to them, '
at the inn. you can he private and secluded
Perhaps it's their size. These are notenor- when you wish. Yet chance* arc you'll be
mous hotels. Four of t-hem arc cottage colo caught up in the house party spirit and find
nies and one is a small waterside hotel. Each good company for lunch, cocktails, dinner
is privately owned and individually operated. and evening entertainment.
So the welcome is personal, the attention These very special resorts ore your entree
special, the. enjoyment relaxed.
into Bermuda's world of pleasures. Why not
pire of Tartavv, he was shown some Although each resort has a charm of its ask your travel agent about them today?
doth that would not burn, and was
told hy his Tartar hosts that it was made from salamander's wool. Too
wily to be taken in by a storv like that, Miiivn examined the material carefully
ind. after making some inquiries, ^"iriu-il that there was a mineral in the
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asbestos could produce lung disease, which had been forgotten since Strabo and Pliny first recorded it around the
time of Christ, soon manifested itself
again.
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Modern knowledge of ashestosis dates from the year 1900, when a post
mortem examination was performed by
Dr. H. Montague Murray, a physician
in London's Charing Cross Hospital,
on the body of a thirtv-three-year-old man who had worked for fourteen years in an asbestos-textile factory. The
patient, "found to have been suffering
from severe pulmonary fibrosis, which
is scarring of the lungs, had been the
last survivor of a group of ten men
who were working in the carding room
of the factory in 1886, and since Dr.
Murray found spicules of ashestos in
the lung tissues at autopsy, he was able,
to establish a presumptive connection,
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between the-man's occupation and the disease that killed him. A few years later, an inspector in the Department of Labor at Caen, whose name was
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Aurthnuh, reported the results of what was undoubtedly the first study of mortality amdnff'asbestos workers. Ac
cording to Aurihault, whoso account
appeared in die BuLlrtm Hr CInspection
du Travail rf. Hr L'li 1`gihu' lndtistriclls,
an asbestos-weaving mill had been
established in 1890 at Comlt--sur-
Noircau, in Calvados, and during its
first five years of operation, when
there was no artificial ventilation and
the employees were heavily exposed to
dust from the looms, fifty of rhem
died-. Moreover, the director of the fac
tory, who had previously owned a cot
ton mill at Gonnevilk*, m Manchc,
had recruited seventeen workers from
his former staff, of whom sixteen were
wiped nut by what Aurihault, who was
not a physician, mistakenly described as
chalicosis--a pneumoconiosis common
among stonecutters.
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Unfortunately, neither Murray nor
Aurihault realized the importance their findings. Testifying before a D*r
partmental Committee on Cumpensation for Industrial Diseases, in 1906;
Murray said, "One bears, generally
speaking, that considerable trouble# now taken to prevent the inhnlation.|f
dust, and so the disease is not so likelys
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^ulisc ui ignurance auuuu uic cause or ror a scicntmc journey mat started ojSSn
the disease, and because it manifested an apparently straightforward path
itself slowly and insidiously over a pe occupational hygiene and that has since '--1,
riod of from ten to twenty years or branched out into epidemiology, 0n_, '
more, asbestnsis was probably more of cology, physical chemistry, physiology
ten than nor misdiagnosed in the early and experimental pathology. As a re
part of the century as pulmonary tu sult of studies made between 1927
berculosis, silicosis, or fibrosing pneu and 1921, a whole literature relating to monia. In addition, coyness on the part asbestosis appeared in Great Britain
of industry, timidity on the part of la which included clinical and X-ray find
bor, and nbtuseness on the part of the ings, descriptions of the histology of ^
medical profession often combined to disease, and the hypothesis (soon widely
make early investigations into the health accepted) that the strnnge-Iooking yel
of asbestos workers meaningless. As a lowish-brown bodies noticed by Cooke
result, even though the asbestos indus were asbestos fibres that had been al
try was growing very rapidly in all the tered by the reaction of lung tissue, aad
industrialized countries of the world, coated with a colloidal substance rich
almost nothing was done to control dust in iron. In fact, Cooke's "curious
levels in asbestos factories, and almost hodiesJ,' proved to h.e so abundant in the
no medical information on asbestnsis lungs of autopsied asbestos workers,
was gathered during the quarter of a many of which contained literally bil
century'that followed the disclosures of lions of them, that they quickly came to
Murray and Aunbaiilc--althnugh as be called "asbestos bodies."
bestos workers were probably dying
The most important investigation of
like flies of it.
this period was conducted by Dr.
It was 1924 before the first clear E. R. A. Merewetlier, a medical in
case of death due to asbestnsis ap spector for the Factory Department of
peared in medical literature, [n that the British Home Office. Between 1928
year, Dr. W, E. Cooku, an English and 1929, he examined three hundred
physician, who gave the disease its ami sixty-three asbestos-textile workers
name, performed a post-mortem ex nut of an estimated total of twenty-two
amination on a thirty-thrce-year-old hundred asbestos workers employed in
woman patient who had started work Great Britain at the time, arid found
ing at-the age of thirteen in an asbestos- that ninety-five, or slightly more than
textile factory in which there was no twenty-five per cent, showed evidence
provision for the removal of dust. Bv of suffering from pulmonary fibrosis.
917, after thirteen years of exposure, He also demonstrated that the inci
ic had been coughing ami in bad dence of fibrosis increased in direct pro
health, and from then
portion to the number
m her attendance at
of years of exposure,
work had been inter
reaching eighty-one per
mittent because of
cent in the group of
shortness of breath and
workers who had been
assittide. The autopsy
employed in the Indus-'
showed extensive pul-T
try for twenty years
monnrv fibrosis and
or more. As a result
ensc strands of abnor mal fibrous tissue con
of Merewether's re port, Parliament passed!
necting the lungs ami
legislation in 19311
the pleural membranes
that made asbestosis
surrounding them. In
a compensable disease,
addition, Cooke noted the presence of required improved methods of exhaust
Solid yellnwish-hfown particles, which ventilation and dust suppression in asf
he called "curious bodies," in the areas bestos-textile factories, and instituted
of fibrosis. "We have never seen any periodical medical examinations f<?j
thing parallel to this in pneumoconi workers engaged in particularly du$tj
osis due to other.-dusts, nor have we processes in the asbestos-textile industrj
been able to find Such occurrence in
After this promising burst of activitj
literature," he declared, and he added, however, progress in the field of asbd
"We cannot think there i? any rcason- tosis was depressinglv slow, for, l ble doubt that the particles in the lung things turned out, the doctors had on.'
arc the heavy, brittle, iron-containing begun to scratch the surface of a pro!
fragments of asbestos fibre."
Iem of bewildering complexity. Maf
Cooke's discovery, which was pub investigators assumed that the new re.1
lished in the British Medical Journal of ulations would prove effective in co
uly 26, 1924, and republished in trolling the disease, thus failing to 2
927, provided the point of departure predate the fact that, once inhah
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asbestos, which is virtually indestructible, continues to react within the lungs for a lifetime, and tn heed the warning of Mcrewether, who, when asked if two years of exposure was sufficient to cause asbestosis in a young girl, replied, "Yes, if she lives long enough." Moreover, techniques of dust sampling were primi tive and inaccurate, and dust levels varied so greatly--not only from fao tory to factory but from area to area within a given factory--that it would have been almost impossible to establish , criteria upon which to recommend a safe level of exposure. But as time went by, the generally lowered dusc| levels that did result from the regula tions of 1931 appeared to be slowing clown the attack rate of the disease, at least in Great Britain, and the life ex pectancy of the average asbestos-textile worker was further increased bv the advent of antibiotics, which drastically reduced the death rate from infectious pulmonary diseases that often had to be: feared as a complication of asbestosis. Tiie totally unforeseeable consequence of all this was that asbestos workers, in stead of dying of Asbcstnsis, began living long enough to develop ashestos-induccd cancer.
The first published suggestion of an association between' asbestosis and ma lignant diwasu was made in 1935 by Dr. Kenneth M. Lynch, professor of pathology at the Medical College of South Carolina, who described the case of a fifty-scven-ycar-old asbestos weaver who died of nsbvstnsis and in whose lungs cancer was also found. Because the regulations of 1931 required Brit ish coroners to conduct autopsies on men who bad been suspended from work with asbestos on account of pul monary disability or when their length of service rendered it likely chat their occupation was a contributory cause, of death, pathologists in Britain were able to investigate the suggested link between ashestosis and lung cancer much more easily than their counter parts in tlie United States, where few states had workmen's Compensation laws covering dust diseases, and where there were no specific regulations re quiring post-mortem cxafnin'atftuis of asbestos workers. The British investi.gatinns were not made the subject of official comment until 194-9, however, when Dr. Merewetber, who was dien Lhicf Inspector of Factories, published a review of data that had been accum ulated from 1924 to 1946, which re vealed that lung cancer was present in thirty-one out of two hundred and thirty-five denrhs that were caused bv
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found ac autopsy. This was an inci dence of slightly more than thirteen per cent, and Mercwether found it highly significant, for lung cancer, ac cording to its incidence m the general population, should only have been pres ent in approximately one per cent of the cases. At the time, no formal claim of an association between the two diseases was made, hut cl un'ni; the next few years an increasing amount nf evidence began to establish one. Then, in 1955, Dr. Richard S. Doll, director of the Statistical Research Unit of the British Medical Research Council, completed a stud}' of a hundred and thirteen con secutive autopsies of men with more rhan twenty years of exposure in a large asbestos-textile factory, which showed that the extent to which thev had risked lung cancer over the whole period was eleven times as great ns that of men in the general population of England and Wales. From then on, many doctors were convinced that a causal relationship between asbestos exposure and Uuig cancer had been demonstrated, although almost no part of tiie vast asbestos industry cither acknowledged rite relationship or found it advisable to aid the independent re searchers who were investigating it.
AT this point, many epidemiologists J- * had concluded chat the hazards to human health presented hv asbestos were limited to tile relatively sma group of heavily exposed workers en gaged in making asbestos textiles. The
trouble was that very few-studies had been made of the tens of thousands of workers engaged in other branches of the industry, which was..thcn expand ing at an enormous rate all over the world, so that no one really had any way of knowing whether there was any danger from moderate or light occupational exposure--or, for that matter, from indirect, noil-occupational exposure. Such studies were under way in a number of countries, however, and when tile results began to appear, in the late fifties, it became evident that the hazard posed to-man bv asbestos had once again been underestimated.
The most dramatic development was the discovery of an association between exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma, an almost always malignant tumor of the pleura, which is the dedicate mem brane that encases the lungs, or of the peritoneum, a similar membrane that
linos the abdominal cavity. Previously, mesothelioma had been so rare that it was considered a pathological, curiosity. It was found in only one out of
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Burlingame, Cal. ............................ Robert Satoa
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Columbus, Ind........... ....................Dalton A Payne
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Davenport, Iowa ....................... .......Gentry Shop
Dearborn, Mich...................
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Detroit, Mich.....................Hugneo Hatcner Surtrln
DurniM. N.C........................................Ttiarriniions
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Lansdall. hi........................... Lang Beach. Cal. A Branches
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Lynchburg. Va. .................. J. E. Wood Bros. Ine.
Manchester, N.H...................
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......... Stanford Reed
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'not,listed in most medical books* an
it was not even coded separately in the:'
World Health Organization's Interna--.:
tional Classification of Diseases, In/
1956 and 1957, however, sixteen cases'!
of this rare tumor--tantamount to an.
epidemic--were diagnosed at cite Pneu
moconiosis Research Unit in Johan-'
ncsburgj Smith Africa, hv a pathologist''
named J. Christopher Wagner, Two-
circumstances led Dr. Wagner and his ?
associates to suggest'that asbestos mighty
play some part in the mvsterious out-4
break: asbestos bodies had been found at/
autopsy in the lungs of die very first;.
case, and ten of the cases had come,,
from a hospital to which patients sus-`;
pectcd -of-suffering from tuberculosis"
were referred from a largo crocidnlite--:
asbestos mining area.
At the beginning, this hypothesis'
seemed rather tenuous, for none of the -
sixteen patients who suffered from';
mesothelioma had ever worked in as-''
bestos mines or mills. Within a short ,
sign Research is gathering its autumn stock of recognized classics and period, however, casus of mesothelioma : n designs to add to the collection of D/R furniture, Marimekko textiles began to crop up elsewhere in South . j dresses, fur and leather, toys, kitchen things and many other acces Africa, and when Wagner and Jos assn- .
dates discovered flint the father of one ies. . iif their new mesothelioma patients had "
been the manager of an asbestos mine,
sign Research, 53 East 57th Street, New York; 57 Brattle Street, Cam' and thar the patient had played around
dge; Chirardelli Square, San Francisco,
tiie mine and on the adjacent dumps as
a child, they undertook to reinvestigate
the sixteen original rases and to ob
tain detailed life histories in all future
cases, By the end of 1961, they had
diagnosed a total of eighty-seven
mesotheliomas of the pleura and two
mesotheliomas of the peritoneum. Only
twelve of tiie cases proved to have
had industrial exposure to asbestos,,
but all the rest came from the arid,
windswept region of the Cape asbestos
: fields, where they could easily have sus
tained exposure simply by living in the
vicinity of asbestos mills and dumps. A
particularly striking ease was that of a
woman who was born in a town on the
asbestos fields, left the region at the age
of five, and died of a pleural mesothe
lioma at the age of fifty-seven. Detailed
questioning about her childhood re
vealed that she had attended a kinder
garten near an asbestos dump ami that
she and her playmates (two of whom
also died of mesothelioma! used to en
joy sliding down tile dump on their
wav home from school. Another exam
ple was provided by tin.* youngest pa
tient of the series--a man who died at
the age of twenty-one. He had been
exposed to asbestos from the age of six
weeks until he was weaned--a period
during which Ids mother took him
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isbcStos is separated from its host rock,
ven among those patients who had
worked in asbestos mines, the actual
exposure appeared to have been slight,
flip in most cases the lungs showed no
evidence of asbestosis but only a few as-
hustns bodies and fibres in the air spaces.
J>nm this, Wagner drew the chilling
i-,inclusion that mesothelioma miglu re
sult from an exposure to asbestos dust
ricit was considerably less than that
needed to produce fibrosis--the condi
tion that had always been considered es
sential for the development of asbestos
hint: cancer. (In some areas of Sooth
Africa, occupational exposure to asbestos
dust was so heavy, however, that fi
brosis of the longs was almost certain-
!v killing people before cancer could
develop. According to Dr. G- W. H.
SchcpcrH, n native of South Africa who
is now director of the Bureau of Lab
oratories in the Department of Health'
in Washington, D.C., conditions of
industrial hygiene in the asbestos mines
and Factories were often "deplorable."
In 1949, when Schcpt-rs was sent into
the northeastern Transvaal to make
:lie first official radiological ami clinical
..iirvev of the asbestos industry for the
Smith African government, he found
barefoot Bantu children spending their
davs inside large jute shipping bags,'
where they were forced by overseers
armed with whips to trample down
fluffy nmosite asbestos as it came cas
cading over their heads into the bags.
Sclicpcrs found that number of these .
children had developed ashestosis with
'ir pulmonale--right-sided .heart fail-'
ure. which often accompanies the dis
ease-- before tile age of twelve, and he
has saiil that he would bo von' sur
prised if any of them had lived long
enough to develop either lung cancer
or mesothelioma.)
Tn i960, the year that Wagner pub
lished the first of his disturbing reports
ihont mesothelioma, there were two
additional developments that caused
grave concern among scientists investi
gating the asbestos problem. One of
them occurred in Finland, where Dr.
Kainio Kiviluotn, a radiologist, had
been surveying the general population
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bestos industry. The other development took place back in South Africa, where Dr, J, G, Thomson,, professor of pa thology at tiie Medical School of the University of Cape Town, was exam ining lung-fluid smears from five hun dred consecutive autopsies to determine the extent to which the ordinary urban dweller was exposed to the inhalation of asbestos; lie found asbestos bodies in twenty-five per cent of the total. Thomson's discovery astonished the medical world, for up until that time no one suspected that asbestos bodies might be present in the lungs of people
Thomson's observations were con firmed by studies made in Miami, in London, and in Belfast, while in Pitts-, burgh asbestos bodies were found in the lungs of forty-six of a hundred con secutive autopsies at Presbytcnan-Uni- 3 versity Hospital. And Wagner's find- j|
ings were corroborated by investiga tions that associated mesothelioma with exposure to asbestos in half a dozen cities in Europe and die United States. Perhaps the most striking confirmation of Wagner's data came from London, where Dr. Muriel L. Ncwhouse and Dr. Hilda Thompson, of the Depart- .
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who did not work in asbestos mines ment of Occupational Health at the
or factories. He pointed out, however, London. School of Hygiene and Trnpi-
that there had been a tremendous in cal Medicine, investigated the life his- :
crease in the use of asbestos throughout tories of seventy-six cases of mesothe-,.;
the world over the previous twenty lioma that had been confirmed by nu- '
he
years--three million'tons were market ed in 1960---and chat asbestos was be ing incorporated into an. increasing
topsy or biopsy in London Hospital. < To no one's surprise, thirty-one of the j Seventy-six patients had worked with .j
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number and variety of industrial prod ucts with which the ordinary urban dweller came into intimate daily con
asbestos, hut eleven of those who had j died had simply lived within half a ) mile of an asbestos factory, and nine j
nude
tact. He also suggested that the air of city streets was a likely source of as bestos exposure, and that the average
others--'Seven women ami two men-- 4
wererelatives of asbestos workers.
Most ofthese Women had washed their j
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motor vehicle, which wears out three or four sets of asbestos brake linings and unc or two asbestos clutch facings in its
husbands' work clothes regularly. The 1 investigators learned that ope of the j husbands, a docker, had come home :
: wears suits almost lifetime, might well he a major cause "white with asbestos" every evening 1
here, making all
of tlie liberation of asbestos dust. for three or four years, and that In's I
Thomson reminded his colleagues that, wife had brushed him down. Both J
ies in dresses serably timid.
compared to a half-life of twenty-eight years for strontium 90, the half-life of asbestos fibre was an infinity of years,
of the men in this group, when hoys ; of eight or nine years, had had sis ters whoworked in asbestos-textile
y conventional ias to do with the
and he concluded that, because of the contin uous disintegration of
,e picks, of course. ; so smashingly
asbestos products such as brake linings, floor tiles, and roofing ma
tinctive.
terials, as well as- the demolition of buildings
t suits are works of containing numerous
:h all the detail ir that makes for
other asbestos products, asbestos was constantly finding its way into the
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atmosphere as an everlasting contami nant. He even went so far as to pre
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dict that in future decades, as the ac cumulation of asbestos in urban areas led inexorably to higher concentrations
ids apart from
of asbestos fibres in the lungs of urban
ling else.
dwellers, asbestos-induced neoplasjns would rival cigarette-induced lung can
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factories. One of the sisters had been em ployed as a spinner ! from 1925 to 1936, ]
ami had died of ashes- !
tosis in 1947, at which J
time it was determined | at an inquest that "she used to return home j from work with dust j on her clothes." Her brother, who had ap parently sustained no other exposure to asbestos in his lifetime, died in 1956 of
a pleural mesothelioma. Further corroboration of Wagner's
findings came from southeastern Penn sylvania, where Dr. Jan Lichen, then 1
head of the Division of Occupational Health at the State Department of Health, in Harrisburg, investigated the backgrounds of forty-two people who had died of mesothelioma between 195b and 1963. Of the forty-two pa tients, ten proved to have had definite, occupational exposure to asbestos, three were relatives of asbestos workers, eight either lived or were employed in the viciniry of an asbestos factory, and ten
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others were discovered to have hadlf
least some minor exposure to the miiL eraL The ten people with mitifjj
exposure included a &elf-empl0y maker of Swiss cheese who used a fjySj hundred-gallon boiler covered asbestos insulation that flaked 0f?
Contact, a salesman who had mixed ar
applied asbestos-cement insulation hoilers in his home, and a fourteen
year-old boy who at one time ha3 helped his father saw up and install
plasterboard during an extensive modclling of their house,
j. From an epidemiological point
view, the investigations that tended support the findings of Wagner an3|
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Thomson were -weak, because thqj lacked a defined population as a ha against which the data could be mca ured. On the other hand, the presents of ashestns bodies in the lungs of such3 large percentage of consecutive amop" sies in so many widely distributed cities of the world was sufficient to tndicatt that asbestos fibres were prohahly being inhaled by a majority of urban dwell urs everywhere, and the assoeiatioijj between asbestos and mesothelioma
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was striking enough cm suggest that a history of exposure to the miner* was likely to be- found whenever positive diagnosis of the tumor wai made. As a result, epidemiologists were forced to revise their idea that asbestos!
was only an industrial hazard, and
give serious consideration to Thom3
son's prediction that it might prove to be dangerous for untold numbers
if unsuspecting people in tile general)
community.
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IN October of 1964, in order to n view the data collected in the pa# and to discuss the problems nwairinj solution in the future, tile New Vorl Academy of Sciences sponsored an in ternational Conference on the Biologi cal Effects of Asbestos, at the Waldorf-] Astoria, The conference enabled man than four hundred scientists from a! over tilt- world to discuss the immense ly complicated epidemiological an1 clinical problems that had appeared if the forty years since Dr. Cooke de scribed the first.clear case of asbestosis, and its planning was largely the wori of one of its co-chairmen, Dr. Irvin J. Selikoff, who is head of the Divi sion of Environmental Medicine at, the City University's Mount Sinaf School nf Medicine, director of its Environmental .Sciences Laboratory,^
(butami a pioneer in the field of modern
asbestos epidemiology. Like many of his colleagues at the
Conference. Dr. Selikoff heivimi- mri-r.
loc
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.stetl in asbestos in a rnumlahotit way. A native of New York City, he in terned at Beth Israel Hospital in New ark; did his pathology at Mount Sinai, where he has been a member of the staff since 1947; and became a chest physician at the Sea View Hospital on Staten Island, specializing in tubercu losis, In 1951, he participated in the basic research on isoriiazid---the anti biotic drug that, by effectively killing mlxTclc bacilli, has provided a cure for tuberculosis-"--For which he received the American Public Health Associa tion's Albert Lasker Award in Medi cine, In 1953, Dr, Selikoff- founded a medical clinic in Paterson, New Jersey, where, by chance, seventeen of his early patients were men referred for i-hest-disense consultations who worked in a local factory that had been mak
ing asbestos-insulation materials since 1940, When the factory closed down in 1954,' the seventeen men went into other work, and at that point Dr. Seliknff decided to continue his observa tion of these patients with X-ray ex aminations and pulmonary-function tests in order to determine the history and the natural course of asbesrosts in men who would not he subjected ci lurrher exposure.
At the time, Dr. Selikoff was chiefly interested in rishestosis because, as h has explained, "I was still unconvinced of the relationship between asbestos anil lung cancer. There wasn't much data, and what there was scarcely seemed to indicate that It would prow to be much of a problem," As tilings turned out, he changed his mind. Tn 1954-, all seventeen men from the Paterson factory were able-bodied am! work ing. By 1961, however, six of them were dead, ami today only six of them are alive. Of the eleven who died, four were victims of lung cancer, three Ort of other cancers, one of mesothelioma, dn and two of ashestosis. Of the six who last are still alive, two are disabled because joy of respiratory insufficiency caused by ire, fibrosis of the lungs, and one lias re Che covered from surgery for cancers of n.) the lung and larynx. Dr. Selikoff us. f'hnpk, his head in describing die fate ier f these patients, but as early as 1961 their ranks had been thinned out so st? drastically that, as he said, "I was forced to the awful realization of what could happen to men who ware occu pationally exposed to asbestos." After the company that owned the factory' said it was unable to make its employ ment records available, Ik wrote to x-vera] other large asbestos manufac turers ill the United States, inquiring ``bout the health experiences in their
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plants, and was unable to obtain in
formation from any of them. Mean
while, lie .and Dr, Jacob Churg, chief
pathologist at Barnert Memorial Hos
pital, in Paterson, who had been find
ing asbestosis and lung cancer in a
large number of workers from the Pat
erson factory, took their data to Dr.
Roscoe P- Handle, Commissioner of
the New Jersey State Department of
Health, and Dr. Handle applied to the
United States Public Health Service for
funds to undertake a study of the Pat
erson factory and to make a statewide
survey to determine how many people
were being occupationally exposed to
asbestos. However,, the request was
denied for lack of resources.
Since Dr. Selikoff already knew that
men who had worked in the factory
that made insulation materials were dy
all those people who thought they would *niss ing of asbestosis and lung cancer at
perial, here's what is going up in its place: The rial. A majestic, 17-story high rise scheduled to larch, 1970, on the site of our old wing. With a
an alarming rate, he considered that men who were installing such materials
spacious new rooms added to the 600 in the might also risk disease, and early in '
lilding. the Imperial will be the largest hotel in 1962 he made contact with officials of
. And then, as now, you can be sure the Imperial's New York Loc.il 12 and Newark Lo
arsonal attention to service, and its matchless Cal 32 of the International Association
n the heart of the world's biggest city, will live of Heat and Frost Insulators and As
tame. Imperial...and the legend continues.
bestos Workers. The asbestos insulators
had been crying for years to interest
IMPERIAL HOTEL doctors and various government agen
, Pr,,'dort( tfld Cenerfl MdlUililf
TOKfO cies in their medical problems, so they
were only too glad to cooperate, and
urged Dr, Selikoff to make a study in
depth of the effects of asbestos expo
sure among their members.
During the next six months, Dr.
Seiikoff and his administrative assistant,
Mrs. Janet S. Kaffenburgh, pored
through the unions' records and com
piled a list of the names and addresses
of the six hundred and thirty-two men
who had heen members of either of the
metropolitan locals on December 31,
1942, and of the eight hundred and
ninety men who had joined between
then and December 31, 1962. From
SVhy wait for your
the unions' employment records, they obtained detailed work histories of the
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' deaths (approximately one-half of the
total) which occurred in hospitals.
In the next phase of the study, Dr.
Selikoff and Dr. Churg were joined
by Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, Vice
President for Epidemiology and Sta
tistics of the American Cancer Society,
who had participated in. an analysis of
the medical effects, of the atomic ex
plosions that devastated Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, in 1945, and whose largescale epidemiological studies of more than a million men and women pro vided a major basis for the conclusions drawn in the 1964 Surgeon General's report on the effects of cigarette smok ing. Since previous studies had sug gested that lung cancer associated with ashestosis seldom develops until twenty
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years after initial exposure to asbestos dust, Dr. Selikoff and Dr. Hammond decided to limit their first report to the six hundred and thirty-two men who were on the union rolls as of Decem
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ber 31, 1942. Taking the men's ages
into consideration, Dr. Selikoff and Dr.
Hammond then set about comparing
the mimher ami causes (if death among
diem with those of the general male
population in the United States. The
results were depressing. According to
the standard mortality tables, two hun dred ami three deaths could have been
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thirty-two workers. Instead, there
were two hundred and fifty-five, not
Counting seven men who had died be
fore incurring twenty year? of expo
sure--"-an excess of twenty-five per cent
The reason For the excess was not hard
to find. The fact that twelve of the
deaths were attributed to ashestosis was
not particularly surprising, but only six
or seven death's from cancer of tile lung,
pleura, or trachea were to bo expected,
whereas there were fortv-fivc. And
where nine or ten gnstm-intestinal can
ccrs were, to be expected there were
actually twenty-nine. Since the lung-
Cancer dentil rate was known to
be more than ten times as hieh
among cigarette smokers as anions'
non-smokers, Dr. Selikoff and Dr.
Hammond realized that they would
have to take the smoking habits of the
asbestos-insulation workers into account
if their findings were to have any va
lidity. It was, of course, impossible for
them to ascertain this with accuracy in
the cases of the two hundred and fifty-
five men who had died, so, for purposes
of calculation, they assumed that all six
hundred and thirtv-two men had smoked a pack or more of cigarettes each day, and they demonstrated that OWn if this had been the ease it would , h;i\v produced a Innlt-c-'iiK'er death rate |
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times that <>f the
general male population. Cigarette
smoking, therefore, cmiki rmi explain
the fact that in this group of ashrstos-
insiilation workers the rate of death
from Ling cancer was seven times the
expected rate.
Because of its objectivity, its scope,
anti its thoroughness, this studv con
ducted he Drs. SeliknfT, Churg, and
Hammond had a great impact, 'Ml
the medical communin' when it was:
published, in the spring nf 1964, in the'
J'/uni/il fif the American Medical As-
i'H-wtwn, anti when it was delivered
before the Conference on the Biologi
cal Kffeccs of .Asbestos that October, It
was the first scud)' ever made that had
taken a larife enough group of ashesnis
workers from a point far enough hack
in time and followed them long enough
to determine unequivocally what their
health experience had been. Unlike al
most all the previous investigations,
which simple indicated that there was
an association between asbestos and
various kinds of Cancer, it was based
upon tin* incidence of disease within a
defined population, and thus answered
11 I imdann ntal epidemiological question
of how mam' cancers had developed out of how many persons exposed, fri j
doing so, it' furnished the firsr incon
trovertible evidence that industrial ex "l posure to ashesros was hazardous; it
established sound methodology for fu
ture studies; and it marked a turning
point 111 [lie views held hv doctors and
health officials unniml the world.
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Do you have the self-confidence to pay less for your Scotch?
I TX the autumn of 196-, Dr, Selikoff--usinjf donations from private
sources and n grant awarded hv the Health Research Council of New ^ nr'k Citv, headed by Dr. George S. Min'ck--had set up informal clinics ;|t union halls in New York and Newark and started giving A-mv
examinations, pulmonary-function tests, J|ml blond tests to rhe members of the two asbestos workers' locals. During die next year, he examined eleven hundred ami seventeen workers, ;|,,d lie also questioned them closelv ;ihoiit their smoking habits, the kinds
of materials they used, and the condiduns under which they worked. "The
'nstilation workers, an intelligent and h'ghlv skilled group of craftsmen, pa tiently educated me concerning their I trade," he once said. "I learned that they had had comparatively light-and
'bternn'tient exposure as asbestos worktTS <>, because they often worked mituf-dnors un construction projects, and
Xt.inMi- nnjsc .<t: tlu- materials t!n-v used
Some people don't taste the Scotch, They taste the price. So they aren't comfortable unless they spend seven or eight dollars a bottle.
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teen per cent. I also found out how
BON APPETITtheir problems had been neglected.
Most of them had never seen a labor
inspector in their lives, and only a
handful could remember seeing anyone
make a dust-lmd count in the areas
when? they were at work." Dr. Seli-
knff also learned that although some of the workers knew rhey ran a risk of developing asbestosis (which they usually referred to as silicosis) almost none of them had any idea that they also risked cancer because of their oc
From Lloyds collection of English, French and American
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cupation. As things turned out, he found radiological evidence of ashesiosis in fully half of the eleven hundred
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and seventeen men. The extent of the Perfect for the Living-Dining Area
fibrosis varied -directly with
the durn-
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tion-of exposure. Of three hundred anil leaves inserted. With drop leaves down it meas
foi'ty-nix men whose exposure had be
ures only 19" x 38" to fit comfortably "into a tiny space. 33" x 38" with loaves ujj. Simple .,. ele
gun less than ten years before, only ten gant, entirely finished by hand in French acajou (brown mahogany), or in aged fruitwood color. ,
per cent showed any abnormality, and Both with brass edges -- both with the mellow -
of three hundred and seventy-nine men paijna of an inherited antique.
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who had been exposed for between ten
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cancer. Oil the Other hand, Dr. Selikolf Reproduction furniture, paintings and decora-
round that among three hundred and
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ilinerv-rwo men with more than twen
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per cent of the Cases; lie also found that eleven of the men had developed can cers of the lung or pleura.
Aided by yearly grants fi'oin the Health Research Council, Dr, Seli-
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ary of 1963.and March of 1968, fifty deaths would normally have been ex pected to occur among these men. In stead, there were a hundred and thir teen, Fifteen of them were caused hv
ashestnsis, and, as with the earlier study, the rest of the excess turned out to he caused by cancer of various kinds.
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' expectedly sharp rise in the mini her of
; Feathers and nitisothelinma? w^s observed. In th
>n
mini-totes
earlier study, there had been only four in two hundred and fifty-five deaths',
nings... from between 1963 and 1968, however,
:nt collection thirteen of these rare tumors -were
.
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for
found in a hundred and thirteen deaths. Dr. Sdikoff suspects that the latent
I fine stores. period for mesothelioma may be longer
than that for either a$he$to5>i or lung
cancer, but so far he regards the heavy
increase of mesothelioma among the
insulation workers as something of
mystery.
Dr. Sdikoff and Dr. Hammond,
found special significance in the fact
that all twenty-eight bronchogenic
carcinomas occurred among asbestos
workers who smoked cigarettes regu
larly. None were found among eighty-
seven men who never smoked ciga
rettes, Dr. Sdikoff and Dr. Hammond
have reservations about these data,
which suggest that asbestos workers
who smoke cigarettes are ninety times
more likely to die of lung cancer than
men who neither work- with asbestos
nor smoke, because they are based
upon the eNpei'ience of a relatively
small number of people. They do con
clude from it, however, that an im
portant cn-cnrcinogenic effect exists be
tween asbestos exposure and cigarette
smoking, and in a recent article pub
lished in the Jtmnutl of the Ammctm
Mailed Asiaetation they recommend
"that asbestos exposure be minimized,
that, asbestos workers who do not smoke
should never start, and that those now
smoking should stop immediately.'' Tr
has been suggested in some quarters
that asbestos fibres, which are known
to he highly adsorbent as well as vir
tually indestructible, may retain the
Substance known ;is ben/o | a | pyrene
from cigarette smoke for long periods
of time in lung tissue, thus tending to
produce lung cancer by a synergistic, T-i effect. No (me knows for sure, however,
and Dr. Sdikoff will not hazard a guess
about the matter until more informa
tion is gathered. He expresses certainty
ahout the effects of asbestos exposure
only when he has epidemiological proof.
He knows, for example, that one- out
of every five asbestos-insulation work
ers who die in the New York-New
Jersey metropolitan area dies of lung
cancer, and that almost half of the
three hundred and sixtl'-dglit deaths he
has recorded among these mem in the
past twenty-five years have been caused
by cancer of one type or another. Last
March, citing these figures before a
Housi- subcommittee on labor, he
warned that 'ii the\ are projected to
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provement in the health hazards these
Total
men face is achieved, we may look for ward to perhaps six thousand deaths
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from lung cancer ami to perhaps fifteen thousand deaths from cancer in general among men in this single asbestos trade
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I RECENTLY spent several days with Dr. Sclikoff in the Environ mental Sciences Laboratory at Mount Sinai, where he lias assembled a team
continuous feet if you wish with no of'thirty ivton and women to work on
flipover. Zoom in or zoom out! Fully various aspects of the asbestos problem.
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with shelves and cabinets containing
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immediate impression of rather cold efficiency, but this is tempered to a
great degree hr the affability of the di
rector, As we talked, Dr. Selikorf, a
large, soft-spoken man in his early
fifties, was frequently interrupted hy
telephone calls and by questions from
staff members, but he tfencrnllv re
sumed--often with an-- enthusiastic
Where Were we?" -and rattled off
statistics about asbestos disease rhe way
some baseball fanatics recite the batting
averages of big-league ballplayers. On ]
the day of mv first visit, however, lie
received a call from a doctor in New
erscy who informed him that a lung
cancer had just been diagnosed in an
other of the insulation workers. Dr.
Selikoff told the physician that the pa
tient's last X-rayfrshowed moderate as-
hesrosis, that lie jmd had more than
twenty years of exposure, and that he
smoked a pack of cigarettes a day.
When lie hung up the phone, he was
visibly upset, and fell silent. A few moments later, he told me that he had
taken more calls like that than he cared to 7-ernemhcr. "T don't relish the role I
of Cassandra, but I fed we've got to |
forge ahead on this problem as quickly
as possible," he said, "There arc about
thim-six thousand insulation work-
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United States. All in nil, including a$-
bestns-iextile workers and people en
gaged in manufacturing other asbestos
products, there are probably more than
a hundred thousand workers who are
regularly and directly exposed. The
hazard would be serious enough if this
wore die nnlv group at risk, but it's nh-
Wolis that the problem extends further,
simply hecause floating asbestos fibres do
not respect joh classifications. Dr. Wil
liam FI. Stewart, who is the Surgeon
General of die United States, told the
House subcommittee that the asbestos-
insulation workers arc probably sharing
their exposure to Some extent with
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move than three and a half million other construction workers--steam fit
darting along with tweeds,
ters, electricians, welders, carpenters, ironworkers, plumbers, masons, tile set- (
furs, leathers -- ours alone,
cers, and the like--who are employed
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on the same projects, often in the same room or genera! area, and who there
brown, black or grey with'
fore must he inhaling the same dusts." Because of their concern with the
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possible effects of such indirect occupa
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tional exposure, Dr. Selikoff and Ins assistants have spent months compiling
at all lord & Taylor stores
the names, addresses, and work his
tories nf twelve hundred tile setters,
three thousand roofing Workers, and
three thousand tunnel, foundation, ami
caisson workers in the New York
metropolitan area. They plan to
examine- these men for possible health problem!; as they did the insulation workers, and to determine whether
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terms of what tij>pear to be diminishing levels of exposure to a known risk, Dr, Sdikoff told me. "It's as if a rock had been thrown into a pond and
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indications that rhey might--then we must look into the question of fibre fall out from the construction sites where
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wait for the results of the tilc-serrer study, however, because the problem is
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sources in such a way as to eliminate
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effort, of course, including epidemiol
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healch officials, and industry and labor."
One of Dr, SeliknfFs studies will ex
amine the possible health problems
arising From interrupted exposure by
tracing thirteen hundred and sixry-
seven men who worked nt the asbestos-
insulation plant in Paterson--closed down in 1954--'where Dr. SelikofTs
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first .seventeen patients were employed.
Another will look into tile matter of' neighborhood exposure by tracing and 1 investigating the health experience of seventy-five hundred people who lived within a half-mile ratlins of the plant in 1942. "The question of neighbor hood exposure was emphasized ns a re sult of the mesotheliomas discovered
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tives of ashestos Workers, As in the
case of neighborhood exposure, pre vious investigators of this group had no population base against which to meas ure the occurrence of the disease they
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discovered. Dr. Seliknff, however, ha? a definitely established jrmup to work witll. It is Composed of tiie wives and
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children of all the insulation workers,
and c-Jieiir health problems will be carc-
i fully scrutinized, especially for evidence ;
1 of mesothelioma. In Dr. SeHkoff's opin
ion, this studv will be of tremendous
importance, bveruise its jubiects have
been far removed from direct exposure,
"If the families of insulation workers
turn out to he in trouble, die implica
tions will he very serious indeed}'* he
said. "On the other hand, if we find
no trouble among them--and tin's is
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to recommend whether special facilities
should be provided so chat insulation
workers can change their work clothes
before going home to their families."
With the aid of a grant from the United States Public Health Service,
Dr. Sclikoff and his associates are cur
rently conducting an investigation that
covers an even wider range, by study
ing samples of lung tissue from three
thousand consecutive autopsies that
have been performed at three different
hospitals in New York City and trac
ing the work histories of each of the
dead people. So far, they have examined
two thousand lung Samples, and have
found asbestos bodies in nearly half of
them. According to Dr, Victor Baden,
a histologist at the Environmental Sci
ences Laboratory, from one to five or
mon? asbestos bodies are found in fifty per cent of the tissue slides he examines. Since each slide is composed of seven sections that together represent less chan one half-millionth of an entire
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Dr. Selikoff ami his fellow-epide miologists tlo not know whether the
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relatively small amount of asbestos now
being inhaled by the general public car
ries a risk of inducing mesothelioma,
whether the presence of what appear to
he asbestos bodies in the lungs of many
people in the general population repre
sents a serious public-health problem.
Nor do they know whether relatively
light inhalation of asbestos is associated
with a special lung-cancer risk in cigar
ette smokers. "Af present, We simply
have no way of telling what the dose-
disease relationships are," Dr. Sdikoff
said, "Is it hotter to have breathed in
only fifty' asbestos fibres than fifty
thousand or fiftv million? Does each
fibre have the potential of causing a cel!
with which it comes in contact to turn
Cancerous: The answers to these im
mensely complicated questions will have
to come from epidemiology over a long
period (if time. An eightfold increase
in asbestos production over the last thir
ty years would appear to make it likely
that asbestos cancers will increase, but
only the future will tell. Remember
that current cases of mesothelioma must
he associated with inhalation that took
place twenty, thirty, or more years
ago, when world consumption of as
bestos was only about five hundred
thousand tons a year, and that the neoplasms associated with today's pro duction of nvi/t' Four million tons a
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[een-ninetic found [ha i fibres appc.n chclinma, a some of us nci'v5 ohserv problem w only one v; related tn t (hires could cussed. As [ram will I asbestos in g I asked j that asbestos siblc for th bodies in th fcneml pnpi although tl direct ennfi; least partly again that d tional exposi mon than ha in the cons industries, lb possible soun tainination and milling
processes, am of finished pi part of it. T) matcriaishn t another, and tcrioratinn nf community a There's no c unsuspecting to small quar sources as B alld pot hold( much asbepto engaged in umimd the ho hoard, mi.xint insulating pip' and repairing asbestos cerne wlm suggest i fires may be li nets in widesp cement pipe a a i*C employed ceutical indust formation th* potential.. VVI relatively few Fact that it ca asbestos. Not that children gartens in Ne other states w< raw asbestos cheap form <> also learned d children's t-'fisr
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, >r inn*
Venr Will not he evident until the rune-
tm>m'netie'>. Moreover, we have
found time all vnt'ieCieS of nsbestOS
fibres appear to he implicated in meso
thelioma, ami not just crncidolite, as
some of us had hoped following Wag
ner's observations in South Africa. The
problem would have been simple if
onlv one variety of asbestos had been
related to this tumor. Control proce
dures could have been narrowly fo
cussed. As it is, however, a control pro
gram will have to lie concerned with
asbestos in general."
I asked Dv, Seiilcotf if he thought
that asbestos air pollution was respon
sible for the occurrence of asbestos
bodies in the lungs of people in the
general population, and he replied that
although there was relatively - little
direct confirmation, lu* felt it was at
least pnrtlv responsible. Pointing out
again that direct and indirect occupa
tional exposure were much more com
mon than had been suspected, especially
in the construction and shipbuilding
industries, he went mi to sav, "The
possible sources of environmental con
tamination are numerous, Mining
and milling operations, manufacturing
processes, and the delivery and storage
of finished products constitute Just one
part of it. The conscaiir use of asbestos
materials in the construction industry is
another, and the destruction and de
terioration of asbestos products in the
community at large constitutes a third.
J'hcre's no question in my mind that
unsuspecting people are being exposed
to small quantities of fibres from such
sources as torn 11`onmg-hoard covers
and poc holders, and who knows how
much asbestos is inhaled by hobbyists Holidays are happy days in Germany
engaged in do-it-yourself projects
around the Imuse--like sawing up wallboard, mixing crack-filler compounds,
Germany has probably the most modern cities in Europe. But many old fashioned things like the well in the picture still persist. The Germans cling to the relics and re
insulating pipes with asbestos materials, and repairing furnaces and boilers with asbestos ceinviKs: l agree with those who suggest that small numbers of fi bres may he liberated from manv prod ucts in widespread use, such as asbestoscement pipe and asbestos filters, which are employed in the food ami pharmacemica! industries, but we have no in formation that this carries a disease potential. What troubles me is that
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powdcr-water-mix jewelry kits con tain asbestos. In addition, within the past couple of years two different thoracic surgeons have published ar ticles in leading medical journals which advocate the sprinkling of asbestos tin surgical incisions in order to pro mote the adhesion and healing of tissue. This is very bad advice. Why, Dr. William E. Smith, who Con ducts animal studies at Fairleigh Dick inson University, 1ms readily induced mesotheliomas in hamsters by injec tions of asbestos fibres into their pleural cavities!"
Dr. SelikofF went on to say that he understands full well that asbestos is an extremely valuable material, and that it -has become essential in modern industrial society, "We epidemiologists recognize and study its dangers so that we may devise ways of minimizing or avoiding them," lie said. "Improve ments in the practice of industrial hy giene are needed to eliminate unneces sary exposure among asbestos workers and men in other building trades, and awareness of the potential risks of en vironmental contamination is needed until our studies indicate just how far out into the general population the problem extends. All I can Say is that the public should be made aware of the problem, and that no one, particularly children and young people, should he unduly exposed. After all, today's chil dren are almost certainly inhaling more asbestos chan their parents did, and we now know that if a person inhales sig nificant amounts of asbestos dust, lie carries a burden that will provide a la tent potential for the development of cancer for the rest of his life. Here's an example I'll never forget. A couple of years ago, just after Cuvier Hammond, Jack Churg, and I published an article about asbestos and mesothelioma in the AViy England Journal of Mcdicinr, I received a plume call from a doctor in Massachusetts who said that when he read the piece he immediately told his fnrty-rhree^venr-old wife about it, be cause her sister had died of mesothelio ma the year before. `Imagine my hor ror/ this physician went on, `when my wife proceeded to tell me that in 1943, while she and her sister were students in college, they had responded to a pa triotic appeal and spent six* weeks in a shipyard insulating pipes in destroyer escorts.' " I)r. SelikofF paused. "Two. sisters with six weeks of exposure in 1943," he murmured, "Twenty-three years later, one of them dies of meso thelioma, And today, the other one-- rlie doctor's wife---is bciiur examined i ,
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I iv,-is x menra J;t\, I hnppi Jippintl tad, in1,-if rlie er was fnnn d 1%7, start wene lookei inn.-, bcrwci u-sterdav. f be simwtial* between tin tliv Genera is nearing the former arn'cle wen of the licit; to the conti project vn the white fireproofing spruced on beams, am skyscraper, engineer v Miladng nin plied with ? wane tn re Imw we ;ti He was alg a job cornii lust pnt'.lgv:
city's Emit it had no about the 1 'The dcpai paullns wa eratiolt? in vent inctin
Hcneath notation: the mater amorphous `rock "woo Tr is know tion mate plus rock tain asbt'sr
When ` hidJerin-iv nvnernlog
til 11 r MM pie of tin contents 1' tion and c rlie aid ' Then he down a S a grayish about the the samp ami ;maH from a tj is about <
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some siispiuims-looldmr "duidcws on her
. X-nivs."
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A11! r wns arriving: at the EnvlmnA mental Sciences Laboratory one
day, T linp|K`m.`tl to notice a newspaper
Hunger is
dipping tacked up on ft bulletin board iKvit1 the untranee. The story, wln'di was from the '1'ifln'i of September 2
Daily Diet
1967, started out as follows: "Th
scene looked wiiurv <m Madison Ave nue, between 57tJi and 5Nth Streets yesterday, Flurries of what seemed to
CARMENCJTA II. DE lA CRUZ. FILIPINA. tCE 0. One of three
be snowflakes fell on the area from
children. Father TU . . . almost
between the 25tli and 30th floors of the General Motors Building, which is nearing completion on the site of the former SnvoV Plaza Hotel." Tile
blind. Unable t.u ivork. Mother Til suspect. Washerwoman. Can work "only occasionally- Earns about
article went on to sav that residems
$12.82 per month. Ihmse next to
of the neighborhood had compUhvid-| ro die contractor, ami chat one of tin? pmji-er engineers had explained that the white Hakes were fallout from
jug-itty is wooden, platform covered by flattened rusty kerosene cans. Hole hi roof serves its door. Nofurni
fireproofing materia! chat was being sprayed on the siniemral steel girders, beams, and decks of the fifty-story skvsct'aper. According to the Tiftrrf, tile engineer would not identify the in
ture. Few kitchen utensils. Uniitiaphudde privation. Children hurtpry, rapped. ParetHsfrantic that they cannot feed, clothe, and shelter chil
hibiting material, which was being ap plied with spray guns, "because T don't want to read newspaper stories about
dren adequately. Help to Carmen* cita means help t<r entire family.
how we arc messing up city streets."
Thousands of children as nmlv as ("Lrmrni'ha
He was also quoted as saving, 441 bis is
arotinunly await "udnptinu" by vim or your "I'nup,
a job condition all over the dtv." The last paragraph of the arriele read, "The
Chnoso a hoy or girl from Croncc, South Korea, Vit't Nam, Hoof; Kong, liu* Philippines. Hntzil. Colombia, iwiiudnr or Pern. A mouliilv rash
city's buildings Department said that it had not received . any complaints
grant helps proviiln priiimry milionl ediu'alimi for vour Foster Child and his .msiitu and lirntbors. In addition. PLAN jtivns fnfHiJy imunw'linjj. medi
ahunt the Madison Avenue Snowfall.1
cal care whim oulli'd for. supploniontarv now
I lie department said the use of tar
clothing and Imuselmid ctpupun'iit. PLAN'* emphasis <m oduuation help* its i-hildrim to In
paulins was required for spraying op romp Hdf*supportinp citizens. Sinew 1937, more than 110.000 cliildrim have ""raiiuaipd" from
erations in construction work to pre IT, ANY program. You receive a case history and plnuoprapli. Kadi month you wrilr and i*t-i-t'ivrt
vent inconvenience to neighborhoods."
a Irttpr (nrijiiuul and translation),'These letters will toll vou how vour "adoption" bnu'lils tin* ootiri' family. Soon, through tho regular letters and PLAN progress reports, you mid your
Beneath the article was this typed child dewloii o-uairm. loving relationship.
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notation; "Kxamined in our laboratory, CHKCK YOUR CHARITY! Wo .-agurly offer nur financial statement upon request. You will sim* that vour contribution truly benefits tho child for whom it wan inLendeil.
the material was found to contain PLAN is a nonqwditicflL non-profit, non-sectarian, independent relief organization, registered
amorphous glass fibres ("presumably under No. VF.A(H9 with the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid nf-llu: Agency fur
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ft is known that other spraved mjiula-
Foster Pnrotifi Plan, Ine. 1968
tioii materials contain amositc asbestos plus rock wool, while still others con tain asbestos fibres alone."
liste^Bx/uris'PJtcui.iM. |
When I asked Dr. Selikoff about the bulletin-board items, he Said that the
nrneralogst in rhe labnratorv, Dr. Ar thur M. Lunger, had collected a snm.plv <iF the material and identified its
contents hy means of electron diffract,nH am! electron microscopy, and with the aid of the electron miernprnbe. Then he went tu a shelf and took ilmvn a small glass jar that contained
:1 -p'ayjsh wad of fihrmis-lookmg: scuff, nhoiit the si/e of a half dollar. "This is The sample Dr. Lunger brought back ;,n,l anali/ed," )k- told me, "It Comes h'l'in ;i n'pe of instilacion material that
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and in this tiny wad alone chore are
literally billions of fibres. Of course',
the Snowfall' those people saw and
complained about was not what may
have been hazardous. What mnv have
been hazardous was what they couldn't
see--an untold number of suh-inicro-
scopic and highly respirable particles.
The `snowfall' was a perfect ex
ample of how asbestos "fits into the
ambient air, and that engineer was
right when he said it's a job condition
all over the city. You'll sec tin: same
material floating down from many
other building projects in town. It's sprayed on by men in the Plasterers and Cement Masons Union. Inciden tally, as far us I know, no one has ever made a siudv of tltrir health," . It was a blustery day, filled with in timations of the season's changing, and when I left the hospital I took a Fifth Avenue Inis downtown. 1 sat by a win dow, and was looking idiv out at peo ple strolling along the sidewalks when 'the bus came to a stop in the upper Forties beside a {lump truck parked in
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front of a small office building that was
^FLORENTINEliving gutted. Several workmen were
carrying canvas sacks r>f refuse across the sidewalk and heaving them up to a tall, well-built Negro wbn stood in the real' of the truck,"emptying die sacks at
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bis feet. As lie did, clouds of dust rose
into the air annimi him. Some of it
showered the window beside me. It ap
peared to be ordinary cement dust, but
then I saw chat the pile of debris on
which the man was standing contained
broken pieces of acoustical panelling
and wallboard, both of which often
contain asbestos, and lengths of pipe coated with crumbling white insulation material that looked very much like asbestos.
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building. The container was full of
white powder, some of which was be
ing blown away bv the wind, and the
men's clothes were covered with white
dust. When T looked into the truck, I Saw half a dozen large paper sacks la belled "Fireproof Plaster." One of the
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workmen returned for his tools, and I
from Ocjober 2-October 22
looked up And scrutinized
About halfway Up jt5 side
tarpaulins billoWjng jn th,-1
the tarpaulins, the steel
beams were reddish hr. the tarpaulins and the "mm they had been sprayed will
station, which clung to th
frosting. Then, all at once. ,,f the same gray stllff fa]),-,
,ircii that had been curtnim tarpaulins.- Some of ihc p|L.c
rLd away , on die wind;
were heavier came turn
around me. .One fell on tin
my feet. I picked it up, cm
tween my fingers, and sa>
tiny fibres float away, It \\
color and texture as the r
Dr. Sdfkoff had shown
hour before. The sidewalk
with it, and even as I stood
of it came showering dowi:
hurrying to make the li:
friend brushed some off t
her cunt, and said, "What
this stuff:" I watched lit avenue, and saw asbesto
blowing over the pavement
down across a field. The
southerly, and most of die .
travelling north, in the i
Mount Sinai Hospital, whe
koff and his associates Tire'
ing the trail .Dr. Cooke sc
1924. But I Was not thu
Dr. Sdikoff or the difficu
deminlogv just then. I w
about the children who pin)
Park every day, and about ;
children who live in thi
breathe its air.
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CRIES WE DOUBT EVE CRIED OUT, RAFTUI
. mo rapture
[Front the St, Moritz C
When giovaxnt secaxtin up to the Engndine from Lai cried out, full of rapture:
"I bow before this earth u lowed by beauty: I kiss the the flowers under this blue vn fin, and while the "birds sing Ccther for flight and the bees from the open blooms, I tin Pure-springs, where beauty ,'H`wed, where love is renewe life to all things."
asked him if die plaster contained as
bestos. "Sure," he replied. "That's
what makes it fireproof."
I walked on to the corner of Sixth
Avenue, where a fortr-four-ston" office
building had been under construction
for several months. During that period,
T had passed the buildinn nearh' cvcrv
linr iii iu .
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looked up and scrutinized it carefully.
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About halfway up its side, I saw some
tarpaulins billowing in the wind. Above
the tarpaulins, the steel girders and
beams were reddish brown; between
the tarpaulins and the ground, however,
they had been Sprayed with asbestos in
sulation, which clung to them like gray
frosting. Then, all at once, I saw wads
of tlie same gray scuff falling out of the
jirua that had been curtained off by the
tarpaulins. Some of the pieces were car
ried away on the wind; others that
were heavier came tumbling down
around me, One fell on the sidewalk at
my feet. I picked it up, crumbled it be
tween my fingers, and saw dozens of
tiny fibres float away. It was the same
color and texture as the material that
Dr. Selikoff had shown me half an
hour before. The sidewalk was covered
n iri) ir, and even as I stood there more
of it came showering down. A woman
hurrying to make the light with a
friend brushed some off the sleeve of
her coat, and su'd, !<What the devil is
this stuff?" I watched Itor cross the
avenue, anti S:iW asbestos insulation
blowing over the pavement like thistle down across a field. The wind was southerly, ami most of the asbestos was travelling north, in the direction of Mount Sinai Hospital, where Dr. Seli-
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koff and his associates are still follow
ing tile trail Dr. Cooke set out on in
192A But I was not thinking about
Dr. Selikoff or the difficulties of epi
demiology just then. I was thinking
about the children who play in Central
Park.every dav, ami about all the other
children who live in this eitv and
breathe its air.
PaUL Brodeur
.^SicSaSiS S&sPflS
CRIES WE DOUBT EVER GOT CRIED OUT, RAPTURE OR
NO RAPTURE
\Frum tht> Si. Muriiz Coiii`i/-f\
When OlOVANNl seGAXTts.'! first came
up tn the Ipnginline from Lake Como; he
erietl out. full of rapture;
"I how before this earth which is hal
lowed by beauty; I kiss die grasses and
the flowers under this blue vault of heav
en, and while the birds ship and meet to
gether for flight and the bees suck honey
from the open blooms, I drink at these
pure springs, where beauty is ever re
newed, where love is renewed that gives
life to all things."
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Western observers believed Brezhnev's remarks would aid anti-American propa ganda abroad while leaving the Krem lin free to deal with almost any future American President, except possibly Rich ard \ ivu}i.---l['itshi)itiH)n IJosr.
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Two confident candidates from our exciting collection of original pin deslgns/Elephant, about $15. Donkey, about $17.50. At fine stores. Ciner Jewelers, 20 West 37th St., New York; and Paris,
TOTAL P.29