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r^rOT^^rTT?I7Crg/>5pTT@^^:.<^7T.-T^TmC^ /syharold.x ROSEN . Controlling Construct!*;. , ,`TVr^ C.U Wl2 ft jjsu&on This column concludes that due to its contribution to air pollution* asbestos-sprayed insulation must be eliminated in future construction. Rosen is Chief Specifications Writer of Skidmore, Ovvings & Merrill, t New York. PLAINTIFF'S . EXHIBIT USM-328 The hazards of air and rater pollu body of an asbestos-textile worker not only are people'ivho actual tion are slowly being recognized as found asbestos particles in the lungs _ more statistical information on their and attributed this death- to the' effect on .the human environment is , worker's occupation. Several iso with asbestos exposing thems. asbestoafs and cancer, but al. allied tradesmen in the builUi coming to the attention of a con lated instances occurred subsequently xtruclion industry, cloudy cerned citizenry. Since the pub where an examination of the lung with this work, arc subjected lication of Silent Spring, by Rachel tissue of deceased asbestos workers exposure. Steam fitters, elect, Carson, people have begun to ques indicated the presence of asbestos. In carpenters, acoustical workoi tion the dangerous aide effects that 1924 an English physician. Dr.- sons, structural steel erector result from chemical pesticides, au : Cooke, * after an extensive autopsy others employed on projects tomobile fumes, and raw sewage l and subsequent search of medical lit-* spray-asbestos insulation in tl dumped into our streams and rivers. * erature, concluded that the death of a of this contamination, and v Industrial and human wastes, care patient resulted solely from the in hale these asbestos particles, i lessly or innocently disposed of into halation of asbestos fibers and as posing themselves and are like the atmosphere or into rivers, have signed the name asoestosis to this didates for this disease. an effect on nature's biological bal . disease. Equally disturbing is the far ance that governs the production of An investigation of some 363 a&- asbestos is practically indestru oxygen and the growth of marine .bestos-textile workers in Great Brit while it may disintegrate, it is and animal life. In addition, as archi ain in 1923 disclosed that 95, or erlasting contaminant in the tects, we should decry the despoi*3- about 25 per cent, showed evidence of sphere. It has been estimatec tion of our environment resulting asoestosis. As a result, legislation during its application as firepr i from the accumulation of physical was enacted in Great Britain to re to structural steel members and mounds of garbage, junked cars, and quire improvements in ventilation decks, about 10 per cent over: industrial waste products. and exhaust systems in asbestos-tex and is projected into the atmos; We should also take a closer look at tile plants and periodic examination On high-rise structures in our construction practices to deter .of workers. Although this improve areas, spray-asbestos fireproofir mine whether we are a -party to this ment in working conditions length been found three and four 1 pollution as a by-product of our de ened the life cxp<x*tancy of these from the construction site, n signs, and whether wc can reduce or workers, it was learned in 19215 by the unsuspecting general puli t'iimiimie rtroc of our own conlribu- Dr. I.ynrh In this country that as*- 5ik<:wio mihj ii*t*d 1m this lutz: lo this proUU'to awn. hi-stos Workers Were dying of rancor well ax Ihc trade: ::n;:m difirl iVr;.ur.2y ;a doiimlilioii of ;is :i w.udt of their s:*rntMm with v**lwd i ti in rat inn. V/hi! xtructurcs in urban centers, wc asbestos. Independent im-cstir.ators rcluiit.n:-hip Ik-J-.v. it a should restrict the amount of dust in many parts of the world were like voenter with JU,r : and (< t that develops. In some European wise coming to the same conclusion development of disease in the j cities, barriers consisting of plastic based on their studies of the associ has not been established, it bcii envelopes are utilized around demol ation of workers with asbestos. the architectural profession to ition sites to confine the dust result-, Dr. Selikoff, of New York's Mount aider other materials to perform ing from these operations. Perhaps Sinai Hospital, had an opoprtunity work of sprayed-on fireproofing our Building Departments and our to examine the records of members of insulation. Air Pollution Control Departments the Asbestos Workers Union. The Not only is. there a clear and should institute stricter controls study covered a total of. 1522 in ent danger in the initial applic. over such procedures. sulation workers between 1942 and of asbestos on the health of th A more striking example of how . 19C2. It was found that the death stallers, but 30 or 40 years h architects can reduce pollution-that rate from cancer among these as when these buildings arc torn d actually contributes to fatalities is in bestos workers was about seven the demolition operations, if the selection of certain sprayed-on times greater than ihat^of the gen properly controlled, will add rr.or ffre proofing and insulating products. eral white male U. S.'population. bestos fibers to the atmosphere