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FILE NAME: Shipbuilders Council of America (SHIP) DATE: 1968 DOC#: SHIP303 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Washington Post Story Referred to in Minutes of Shipbuilders Council of America, Apr. 2, 1969 -U.S Warned of Asbestos Peril - r . * d r , THE wASHIa GTOa r u o T . v ; . !! -- :------------:-- -- 'V V *.- : V- . - V. - UoSoWarmed of Asbestos Peril By Thom* OToole . Wt-fc-.wlM h < l *UICw itter Tho Government hos been tn'd that On Nation's 353,COO shipyard workors face a sortoil-, occupallor.ol harerd from the asbestes in their place of ynxk. The wamine wax RirtJS last September to the Navy, the -l-ahcvr Department and the Public Health Service by New York's Mount Sinai Koipltal, where anlopsta have shown that moat men who worked In shipyard* hod "carcesjlvc" oibestoi fib m In their loops, a condition that often leads to Mirleus lung disease. So far. the three rcderal dcparlmeetx have made na publie aeknnwlrdsmcr.l cf Uie re port or ltt contents. Aulopairs have been done on about 1CO0 perw nt who tiled In Mount Slant, Klmhurst Hospital in Qucciu and Veter- Administration Hospital in tho Bronx In the last two year*. Itouchly.hnlf of tlicje had asbestos traces In their bnllrr rusher*, slcan filter*, lunjt, but a slepcrrinc COper welder*, riveter* and enr;`-cent of TOtr.m wtio hs<1 tr-rn nee;*--men who n e w handle iltipyard worker* at o v itn r asbetln*. In their live* h*.d 'conildi'ra- Mount Plnnl'i *lndr follows ble" atbeitoi Obers in their.m e In llrltaln whi-rc nsbeitoc lunct. bomc-of Kiev- mro had ha-ards In four ltojraJ Dorkspent as HlOc as one week ax ' vanU were examined. The rc- shlpyard worker*.. * |ullt tverr rdporlccltn a recent n _.* Ashctlos Dust |l**i? oi `ITie Annal* of OrruIpatlonal Jlyerco*; a Drillsh T h e Incredible thine U medical Journal. none of tliese mc:t wi re fos workers." said Dr. Irrin ::/"''CM0' 11 J. Scllkoff, director of Unvt.l in the past year, the report ronmenlal Meillclnc at Mount; said. dockyard workers from Sinai yesterday. no fewer than .12 different oc- Dr. Sellkoff explained that cupaIion* (from cntfns filter only about 1 per cent of the (to stoker) had been accepted men worklnr. In shipyards han-jhy Brittfls health authorities die asbestos directly, but that as victim* o f aiheitocii, most shipyard work it con ehronlr Inflammation of the fined to such small places, like lungs that eatiecs shortness uf (hip's bolds, (hal just about all breath and hcort disease. shipyard worker* "Inhale as- The men in ten of these 12 bentos dusl on tho lob.- occupations work Jn amall. The TO ex-shipyard workers machinery tpaees." where on wham autopsies have hern they breathe In ashcMm filirrx performed a far by Mount by accident. Of on otlm.Mrd Sinai had been clcclrlclant. OOflOO workers In tho lour British dockyards, only C come in direct conlact with a bested. . A fatal ^cancer r f the ehc wall eallcxl moioll'cUomn h cropped up i't itorkyard era in five different occur Units, Iho Jlrllish report eat This Is a cancer almost pcct lar lo asbestos workers, o' yet none of live victims h< tinned in the British stn worked with asbestos. Til were boiler makers, filtc wcldrrs, shipwrights and p ctal laborers. Mount Sinai's Dr. SctJk mid lhat he sod a team of d tors hanr yet to iuialyic the shipyard workers for cause death. Ho also said that team will *luily another 2 autopsies done in the Inil I year* for evidence of osbc: In the luns*. Hut It seems eloar there problem heir," Dr. Sell!- tald. T h a t Ij why 1 hronpt lo the atlcsllon of the Clovi mcnL- -. .! f.'.** i ; V ; . , 1 *' ''.' l " v . '. .................. / - .................................... , * ' ' ' * *!. > | . # .**`,*v . . ... , * ' . -- . . -............`..J.'.....*..... . *-f * " ! " ......................... . .**'