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pic Foundid 1844 ASBESTOS TEXTILE INSTITUTE P. 0. BOX 230 73 CENTER ST., POMPTON LAKES, N. 3. 07442 U. S. A. 18 January 1965 U9.22U Ac** eod m Mr. J. T. Griffis R. K. Porter Co., Inc. ThermoId Division Charlotte, N. C. Centleaen: I am attaching an article which was written and appeared in ''The Plata Dealer", January 12, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. We have already received several inquiries on this report from customers. Although this lists various occupations having significantly high lung cancer mortality rates, 1c certainly is alarming as far as our Industry is concerned. 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There is almost no informa tion about the effects of as bestos products on American consumers and those incident ally exposed to it. basic Industrial hygiene con trol measures. The most seri ous deficiency is in the pro vision of adequate preventive measures in small plants of less than 500 employes, which accounts for two thirds of the (national) work force." The above statement is from the report of a commit tee formed at the request of Surgeon General Luther L. This was reported recently by Dr. Robert J. Aoderson, chief of the Bureau of State Serv ices of the U.S. Public Health Service. Workmen listed as having significantly high lung cancer mortality rates were: black smiths, forgemen, hammer men. carpenters, auto me chanics and repairmen, metai molders, construction paint ccr. SOME RESEARCHERS Terry to develop a program ers, paperhangers and glaz-1 From such circumstantial from foreign countries report to Improve environmental iers, plumbers and pipefitters, evidence the need for protec ed development of cancer in health. The committee,: stationary engineers, tailors tion of such worker* torn in wives of asbestos workers, headed by Dr. Paul M. Gross, and furriers, tinsmiths, cop halation of asbestos becomes who washed their husbands' professor of chemistry, Duke persmiths and sheet metal dear. clothes, in dry cleaners who University, spent a year on workers; operatives In pri These workers represent handled such clothes, In peo the assignment. mary metal industries and only one small sampling of ple living in the neighborhood One of the committee's rec* elevator operators. - the thousands vrivi are ex posed to asbestos. They were said to be "primarily engaged of asbestos factories the route by which was hauled. or along asbestos bn.meRdi.uons will be carried out with the establishment of a national center for environ An occupational health sec tion in the report by Dr. Gross' committee concluded: in construction work in which The asbestos Industry is mental sciences "for an en "There is a widening gap be they have relatively light in only one of many believed to hanced and major national ef tween the new materials be termittent exposure to asbes involve Increased cancer fort in environmental health." ing created and an under tos-containing insulation .ma hazards to workers and the The center will cost more than standing of their effects on terials." public, that are being handled 525 million. It will be situated living systems . . . The indus They did not Include' "non inadequately or not at all. on a 400-acre tract in South trial worker is first exposed Carolina in the Raleigh-Dur- to the chemicals that find ham-Cfcapel Hill area, it was their way into home use. i announced last week. "Industry is the incubator ' IT IS BELIEVED that for problems of more reaching consequence farand scarcely the surface has been alert, scientifically sound and .scratched in uncovering uablased investigations of oc American occupational dis-' cupational health problems ease hazards. During the past can provide bases for later year an analysis of lung can community-wide -investiga-' cer mortality by occuoatinn tions." j in the entire United States, has revealed 11 occupations Next; The Personal Smog.) - ----------------------------n