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DATE 1968 Jan 11
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DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Articles with Cover Memo - Fatal Cancer Showing Up Among Those Handling Asbestos
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AMSTERDAM NEW YORK 12010 518-843-3900
January 11 1968
Mr. Fred Kiel
Owens Corning Fiberglas 717 Fifth Avenue New York N.Y. 10022
Corp.
Dear Fred
Enclosed please find the article discussed during my visit of 4 January Many thanks for the opportunity to visit with you
Best Wishes
Very truly yours POLYPLY INC
RBK
Enc
Roger B. Knowles
President
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RareFatal Cancer ShowinUgp
Among Those Handling Handling Asbestos
By Thomas OToole
in the United States morelloma morelloma Even today doctors
Washington Poet Biaff Wzitet
than half of whom did not have trouble spotting it
A fatal cancer of the begin working with asbestos whether they're trying to
cropping up among the tion's asbestos workers
Na
So rare that 20 years ago It
In terms of the number of
persons Involved the apparent asbestos peril may be even
diagnose it in a See ASBESTOS
person still AS Col. 1
wasn't even in the medical greater than that posed by textbooks the cancer is called'uranium called'uranium mines Last May mesothelioma and seems Labor Secretary W. Willard
most peculiar to people Wirtz established the first
posed to asbestos
Federal radiation Umits for
stricken But oddly those
underground uranium mines
with the deadly disease in following disclosure that an
clude a nurse whose estimated 115 men had died
worked in an asbestos plant lung cancer in a mining
and a man who handled population naver higher than
bestos for po more than 5600
.
first spot- month while he insulated the Mesothelioma was
plumbing in his own house lighted in 1960 when a South
Any attention the disease African doctor found 82 cases
gets might come none
too soon More than 1 million
among the people living and working in the Cape of Good
tons of asbestos la consumed Hope asbestos fields The
ally these days in the United same doctor turned up 57
States with more than 3000 more cases the next two
years separate uses being reported
for the fiber There are at
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and arbrelos
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workmen
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Asbestos Workers Union who the most recent
laws no nobody afflicted with
con were on the union rolls before ducted by a team of doctors fit can be paid damages for his .
suction Jan. 1 1943 Dr. Selikot texing out of Middlesex
sen now the first
that 255 of them had died General
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test New
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places boller disease brought theisoms passed through Mid * Most laws ipulate that as fful of breathing
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potent anticancer
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Pennsylvania State Departments Departments do he says In remove
meat of Health began a blind some of the fuld that builds
study to find how mesothe up in the lungs from the dis- ^'
lioma might be affecting the cate
more than 5000 asbestos work- The disease is 100 per cent
states en scattered about the sible fatal Dr. Borow
and
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in tionnaires to 162 hospitals after diagnosis to run Me
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