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k Sl had l>etn asbestos workers. Much more unex Perhaps so. Indeed, I do not share the demono pected, however, was tier discovery that nine had logical theory of industrial hygiene history, in Q merely lived in the household of an asbestos worker, raising the serious question of a special hazard of family exposure. Then, of the S6 who neither which industry is seer, as callously exchanging human disease for profits. Rather. I would say industry shared the ignorance and lethargy of us all. worked with asbestos nor had relatives who worked . The answer will come in these next several years. with asl>cstos, eleven had lived within a half mile We have some reason for optimism. First, we have of an asbestos plant. The latter cases, of course, the law of averages on our side--sooner or later, suggested a special risk associated with neighbor some important environmental hazard is bound to hood contact with asbestos. be controlled. I suspect asbestos will be one. We Similar findings were reported by Jan Lieben last have reason to believe that the dose-disease relation year in Pennsylvania. Of 42 cases of mesothelioma ship is on our side--to the present, disease has been reviewed by the Pennsylvania State Department of uncommon except with significant exposure. And Health, twenty had identifiable occupational ex our data suggest further that such significant ex posure. In addition, eight individuals had lived with posure can be prevented, that we can learn to live in the vicinity of an asbestos plant and three had and work with asbestos. Ail it will tike is the doing had family contact. --but herein lies another tale... D We have confirmed that family contact is a dis tinct possibility. Sampling of both ambient air and settled dust in the homes of New York insulation NOTBB } workers has shown characteristic asbestos particles to he present, presumably brought home on the clothes of the workmen. It is obvious that the spectrum of asbestos dis ease has considerably widened in the last several years. In addition to lung cancer and asbestosis, a. p. a. *. . - *cH+n Avribault <U$crib*d . . AaribtuiU *'OUrvtUftM r+nrdlrif tfc Ryfietn 1*4 SifiO of Workaf* It Splnnit# a*4 Watvlnr WNU.** feilWhn 4* naiaectish 4* Travail, g, 114. 1104. ,"Coot* deeerihed another east Cooks, V. C,, 'Tihrosii of Um Lunn Dus to Inbalatltt of Aabocloa Dual.** British KHka) JttrtaJ IjW7, .1114. > . number of other tumors are how recoghlted^kailKii-.constituting a hazard. Rather than a small number ," li~ i >- <>f.:hoavily exposed workrpen,.* ' Involved tn^MsTiihlterii:e'?IfriC,tJccupatio'naI .. the cartful ttudiee af Richard J>oU boll. B... "'Moi-Uhir /ran ,U AiMm Vorisfi." . Jotra*] of UAaatrUJ Motfcfa* ........... .. or even in indirect occupational exposure. The latteYr ' Li.may represent a'.real problem; there are. for ex- '* bl(Vef(/t. J.. 4. Ckon liti'i. C. RanihM^. "Asbrate* fca>o#tfr ' jtMadt*Ki.et*o:gAUril.ar.t"i.Mimmcal tu( iutfcima ,Aaurku Mediral u>Aaaa<latd*o k)r<___ In the construction `"'and afTipbiindlng industries; or five percent of the ;V ' 1 pulation in. the United.State6.. JUS. Satlkuff. I. *.. *.A.uAar. M. E. BaSar. i. Our*. ont^i K. C. BavnMXMtd. (WUoriatl *AWctota o4 W*ot*la*ia." Atari *' tu Joomal af Madiclat <S:4BT41I. IM1. Ballkoff. 1. 4.. EC- Kaotmood an4 4. Cfeunr. **AdWtoc KxKMur*. Smoklnr 1*4 K*- ImU". Aaamal af 1V Africa* M4lel AMorlatiao 104.104-111. y;r WoH ;jL. J04A. ,*1IW/, t. j . .*- Jt. CustUmAttOUAttdo.a^ComtoalU .. ,- -* *-*.......... ~ *'" ` it. . ^?t;Y*;.`than 20. to SO years from Lthe.onset of .exposure ^ Thus, among our insulation workers in New York,' aV#' yet, to. gee a .mesothelioma in'Alman '" * Wafacr >u tu A. Slactfa. and r. UirtAatd, . 0 an asbestos worker who had worked in that Indus- i than twenty years. Our concern is with the ' J{ri^:y.~ . Xy.K'v/...; outset of this presentation, I questioned iconoclastic among us might have countered with: . ^ it 'must have been--we could not have knowingly : allowed this to come to pass! Surely the explana- . tlon lies tn the length of the period that elapses.'_V between exposure and disease which kept us from p- 7. really knowing the problem tioUl'ljpWiJ'fl^^^jg^.*:-- KivVnoto ruined an ana/opouft qw*(idn.M Klnlluata. R_. ~rWur.l CuklflcatlM u Si.nt**nalo*^ S1m> et Vo-ocur^t^oo* 1 tndemlc Ant>*oohyUlt*>aaWtela." Aria ft4W-. ItfVs (Supplemsatl 1*4: 1*4)*, IM1. .*a. , . Thornton reported . . rc.-J. C.. "Xwwetn m Aunw Oum .rd nirru^ M*r.i ctUrUr ,hiui<i(>amMiMi t>tu. j. u. imi. _ ..... o: *. CrXiSei5rC l Xoitn UrUn S.U.".:Jg.* SmU Afrir.n MrAlol l.nlllliTt-SI. lee- I*. IHI. "Muriel L. fJev'hotmc investigated . . N>Koum. K. L. .rid H. TKompton. "MrroUwllomi ( Tlmn fl FirllnrniM followinr Znmur, tn AtbntM In Or. LnrrUorr Ar. BrtUrlr Jnarrr.l .r lir..lMl KWIrlM Oct-. IHI. "SimVar finding* were reported try den Liehen . . . LiaUn. Jen .*4 K. PiHawkA. "MSalloo.a and A.kaatoa trtn aura.** ArrWi.aa tf Curiraamaklal HaaitS 11:111, April. 1M7. March. 19S9 *" -.V'-v-'ri . 6000 093<r RQ ' PRODUCED BY FORD HFM - 008374