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FILE NAME: BF Goodrich (BFG) DATE: 1949 Aug DOC#: BFG017 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Publication - Foundation Facts U INU A N U N Ji' HAr-rq -I irsute y 9. A ri v \&; No. *7*. v ^.ucrust, 19^ F ^ u r . J .i . t , . c l i it m o n t h ly m w i . i f l t i r m u d to I i i it>t r .iI c o n c e r n i h o l d i n g m m i D e r t h i p In In d u itru l HyQin Foundation. Tn Foundation i i a non-profit a sio cia tlo n of I n J u it r ie i for tha a d v a n c e m e n t of h a it h fu l w o r k m o co n d itio n . No. 3 ^-XoyJ.e-^of^t)e n e ra l M o to rs to Keynote Annual Meeting Conferences to Include one on Air and Stream Pollution M.E. Coyle, Executive Vice-Pre3ident of Ceneral Motors Corp., will deliver ."note address opening the H+th annual meeting of Industrial Hygiene Foundation .on Institute, Pittsburgh, on November 17. Mr. Coyle will speak on subjects id interest to industrial management, as corporate activities and their in on the National economy. Besides the main meeting for management representatives, four professional ;nces will be held here on November 16--- (1) Medical, (2) Chemical & TcxicoL, (3) Engineering and ( M Legal. These round-table sessions are being ;d by the respective professional committees in the Foundation and the agenda i announced soon. November 18, the day after the main meeting, will be devoted to a con'v>n the Air and Water of Industrial Communities, with emphasis on air pollu te membership voted 3 to 1 in favor of such a conference which in effect will dxinuation of the maip. meeting. The agenda will cover subjects of interest to uiagement and technical representatives. The Medical Conference on November l6, the main meeting on November 17 i "air and water" conference on November 18 will all be held in the main ium at Mellon Institute, The other conferences (November l6) will all be ither at the Institute or nearby at sites to be announced. Hotel reservations should be made now. Both the Hotels Webster Hall and :y, near Mellon Institute, i 'mise full cooperation, as do the downtown hotel*? * Pittsburgh Convention Burea1'. More details later I-H-F in American Can Company'3 Annual Report The t7th annual report of the American Can Company, a Foundation member, ns the following: ' "With the assistance of Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, wnich is i la the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, a survey was conducted of the Company's L program for employees. The purpose of this 3urvey wa3 to determine ways uhere- Campany1s already comprehensive medical program can be made more effective." j/ (Editor's Note: w ' l ' N C f O u n O a T (q n The Foundation is now engaged In four other such studies dealing with medical administration, cent and procedure.) -- November 1-f., 27, 18 4 4 0 O F t W f A V I Nut.' - .1 Hygiene Digest - 15 August . 1QI+9 / 1 Hovever, great care should be taken to exclude the tuberculous in select or' ir.g persona to receive aluminum therapy. (1*) It ia not believed that a acientifically controlled experiment in induatry ia feasible for the evaluation of aluminum for the prophylaxis of ailicosia. This follows from the uncontrollable variables inherent in the industrial situation and other factors vhich have been discussed. For these reasons, it appears improbable that any research agency vould consider it advisable to under take such a project except under special conditions already discussed, and vhich may not be attainable. (5) The McIntyre Research Foundation, as presently organized, is not equipped to solve the aluminum prophylaxis problem in relation to silicosis, The steps considered necessary to accom plish this objective are outlined. (6) Research should be continued with laboratory animals with the object of finding a more adequate basis for application to man. Such study is nov included in the program of the Saranac Laboratory of the Trudeau Foundation. -- Authors' Summary j6 Effects of Electricity on the Human Body. W.B. Kouvenhoven. Ind. Med. Id, 2o9 (July, 19^9). The author discusses briefly the various effects of electricity or. the body, including variations vith the amount of current. The current values of interest are: (l) threshold of feeling, about 1 milliampre, (2) let-go current, above vhich it is difficult to let go of a vire, v about 9 milliampres for men, 6 for vonen; (3) current producing ver.tri( N cular fibrillation, 0.1 ampere; (L) current producing a block in the ner/ vous system, one ampere or more; and (5) the counter shock current. The last three result-dn death if prolonged; othervioe artificial respiration may nave the victim. These effects refer to alternating current of com mercial frequency. Direct current is much less harmful. The only effect of high-frequency currents is heating. 57 Asbestos is and Cancer of the Lung. Editorial. . J.A.M.A. ' lTp; 1219-1220 (Aug. 13, 19^9). Records of English, American and German physicians and The Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories in England for 19*+7 shov that the occurrence of cancer of the lung is related to pulmonary asbestosis. This relation is supported by the folloving observations: (l) Ihe incidence rate of cancer of the lungs in asbestosis patients is 10 to 15 times as high as among the general population.(2) The male-female ratio is more nearly equal than it is for the general population, vhich indicates that an environmental and evidently occupational carcinogen tended to equalize the incidence rate of cancer of the lungs for both sexes. Recent experi mental. observations support this interpretation of clinical evidence. 68 Changes in the Lungs Produced by Natural Graphite. H.E. Harding and G .3 . Oliver. Brit. J. Ind. Med. o, 91-99 (April, 19^9). ) A brief description is given of the industrial uses of natural graphite which is a crystalline carbon mixed vith up to 10^ of free silica ar.d vith other minerals. The greatest dust risk occurs in the grinding of natural graphite, for vhich evidence is presented to shov that this can lead to