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Trxxr--T5u: niitct Tle>?{ildut, Welfare June 12, 1945 Mr* Ivan Babcarln Aldred Building Montreal, Qua., Canada Saar Ivent - On* or two recent developaccts prompt to writ* you again about Thatford iae*.- Oir good friend, Bill fehael, just baforc leaving to go up to Canada again told ao of the war}' wonderful crra that you took of hla and ft-. Patrick on their last Ylalt. X certainly envied their opportunity of being with you. Sr. Barnette of our Canadian Office whoa you have net, X believe, Id down bare today with father galls Bouvier of the University of Montreal to give the latter an opportunity of avetSIj aoae ofthe people in our health and welfare eerviees. X had a chance to talk with father Bouvier and learned tnat the euggeetioa had been aade to you that one of father1 o Bouvier1 a atudenta who did soae work iaat roaaor at Aebeatoe would bo available apain thie tanner. X think if you could persuade the nine operatoro group in Tnetford to invito thin youo* nan to Thetford to study tne living end working condition*, it would be a constructive thing to do. An you owe, froa the study we aade of tuberc ilaels normality in Thetford, we drew tbs conclusion that the problea was a eoanunity one, but we_bad.practically no evidenoe which described the social and eeononic conditlona of tbs ooasuaity. S-ieh data la important,' not oalyTor correlation with the nortaTliy study that we have aade but also in connection elth any aorbldlty or ease-finding which Sr. Cartier will undertake. Moreover, the inforeatloa to be gained by auch a surrey of the enwlronaent and habits of the eonnuaity la easontlal for a health education progran which X think eventually aust be undertaken if the tuber culosis problea la to be successfully attacked in Thetford. X would eortainly think It to the advantage of the asbestos operators to sponsor this study which could bo done under the aegis of the University of Montreal. The expense involved In unoerwrltlng this would be negligible. X expect for the two or three aonths it sight be at the rate f {25 or {39 a week. It would seea to ae that ao snail outcome of each e survey eight be to further the repport between industry and the eoaxunlty leaders such as the clergyi physicians, and labor leaders sines part of the study would necessarily Involve inter- j views with such individuals. X expect that Sr* Lous will be visiting Canada the end of the south in con nection with sees industrial hygiene problea of the Conadlaa Aray. Be expeete to be ' la Montreal for a day or two. X hope that be eaa see you end possibly get don to Tnetford Mines and ass Dy. Cartier and the others there that you would feel he should see. X sa sure that he could give soae very valuable advice concerning sous of the problea* that Sr. Cartier vast be facing. With kindest regards. ( Binoerely years. BHRn Assistant Tlee-frasldwt, Welfare tm