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pick FcwjuLcd 1944 .ASBESTOS TEXTILE INSTITUTE p. 0. BOX 239 75 CENTER ST., POMPTON LAKES. N. J. 07442 U. S. A. nMI &37-22U 18 January 1965 Mr* J. T. Griffis H* K. Porter Co*, Inc* Thermoid Division Charlotte, H. C. Gentlemen: I am attaching an article which was written and appeared In "The Plain Dealer", January 12, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. Ve have already received several inquiries on this report from customers Although this lists various occupations having significantly high Lung cancer mortality rates, ic certainly la alarming as far as our Industry la concerned* I think that this article should be the subject of some con versation in our Board of Governors meeting in February*  o d *S o O ao V0* O a<0 U* 3 w2 3g 7a3w23- - 4S 55 gO* 3" <o3 H O 43 TJ JT* 2 a -20mw3 J3omV3* ir5s<Oi;J ^0o U i> *V c V 0 Q- e^*g 3 J65 -- o r a-- oo ^ .. 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'eluded the lung cancers.'the mesothelioma* and probably <M of ihc digestive tract can* ccrs appeared to be "slgnificant complication* of asbes tos inhalation. r.Y TUK UNITED STATES, on in six deaths from all causes is from cancer. Among the asbestos insulation work ers studied, more than one in three deaths was from can or those who do insulation work as members of other unions, such as longshoremen, ship builders, oil-burner and betler repairmen, railroad, shcctmetai workers, laborers and others in various trade)." There Is almost no informa tion about the effects of as bestos products on Amerioan 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 $00 employes, which accounts for two thirds of the tnalional) 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. Anderson, chief of the Bureau o< 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 cer. SOME RESEARCHERS Terry to develop a program ers, paperhangers and glaz*' From such circumstantial from foreign countries report to improve environmental iers, plumbers and pipefitters, evidence the need for protec ed development of cancer is health. The committee, stationary engineers, tailors tion of such worker* from 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, is 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 wl* are ex of asbestos factories or along brutnendkuons will be carried An occupational health sec posed to asbestos. They were the route by which asbestos out with the establishment of tion in the report by Dr. said to be "primarily engaged was hauled. a national center for environ 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 $2S million. It will be situated living systems . . . The indus They did not- include' `'non inadequately or not at ail. on a 400-acre tract in South trial worker is first exposed Carolina in the Raleigh-Dur- to the chemicals that find ham-Chapei Kill area, it was their way into home use. I announced last week. "Industry is the incubator for problems of more far- : IT IS RELIEVED that reaching consequence and scarcely the surface has been alert, scientifically sound and .scratched in uncovering unbiased investigations of oc { American occupational dls*- cupational health problems ease hazards. During the past can provide bases for later | year an analysis of lung can* community-'Wide -investiqa-' jeer mortality by occuoafinn jtions/' j in the entire United States, has revealed li occupations Next; The Personal Smog.j 'T I t-