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cnts7 7i:;.':7Y rrv'rmY PLAINTIFF'S I EXHIBIT ASA-170 Dr. Muriel Newhouse, Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Department of Occupational Hygiene), saic that she had studied literature on asbestos-produced diseases, including Dr. Wagner's paper on the South African Asbestos Minas. Some work revealed that tumours had occurred in people living in the neighbourhood of asbestos factories. A piper produoed by the London Hospital showed that there were environmental cases of thickening of the covering of the lung. Two important papers from Finland showed a higher Instance of the thickening of the lung in the neighbourhood of asbestos mines - but these mines mined different asbestos to that discussed at the Enquiry. Dr. Newhouse agreed that there had not been alarm in con.-.e tlon with white asbeetos as a neighbourhood hazard. The case was aim proven against blue asbestos, but white asbestos was still under suspicion. Dr. Newhouse said that the most important hazard? of asbestos exposure in general were fibroeie of the lung (aab-.-v toe ir, \ which occurred in factory workers, cancer of the lung, which ocvf-i people who had asbestosis, tumour of the lining of the lung (meaotheli which v.o particularly associated with blue asbestos, the thickening of the 1 ini:-.- of tho lung, found in those exposed to asbestos, and there L..d heon suggestions by some American authors that there could be tumours of the gut in people exposed to asbestos. Dr. Newhouse said .La: ohe would not expect to find these amongst people not working in b\ living in the vicinity of asbestos works, but there was some etldence thickening of the lining of the lung and mesothelioma of the pleura in people environmentally exposed to blue asbeetos.