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FILE NAME: Owens Illinois (OWILL) DATE: 1949 Aug DOC#: OWILL067 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Foundation Facts - M.E. Coyle of General Motors to Keynote Annual Meeting Conferences to Include one on Air and Stream Pollution it % FACTS HUN F u u r.J .u .-.i h'u c ts is a m o n th ly n e w s *le tte r is su e d to indiistri.il concerns hold ing m em bership In Industrial H ygiene Foundation* T n e Foundation is a non-profit association of industries for the advancem ent of healthful w orking conditions* August, 19^9 M.E. Coyle of General Motors to Keynote Annual Meeting Conferences to Include one on Air and Stream Pollution No. 8 M.E. Coyle, Executive Vice-President of General Motors Corp., will deliver -note address opening the lLth 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--- (l) Medical, (2) Chemical & ToxicoL, (3) Engineering and (L) Legal. These round-table sessions are being id by the respective professional committees in the Foundation end the agenda 1 announced soon. November 18, the day after the main meeting, will be devoted to a con? on the Air and Water of Industrial Communities, with emphasis on air polluThe membership voted 3 to 1 in favor of such a conference which in effect will ontinuation of the main meeting. The agenda will cover subjects of interest to inagement and technical representatives. The Medical Conference on November 16, 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 iy, near Mellon institute, p 'nmise full cooperation, as do the downtown hotels j Pittsburgh Convention Burea''. More details later...... I-H-F in American Can Company's Annual Peport The U7th 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 in the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, a survey was conducted of the Company's 1 program for employees. The purpose of this survey wa3 to determine ways where- Company's already comprehensive medical program can be made more effective." (Editor's Note: The Foundation is now engaged in four other such studies dealing with medical administration, cost and procedure.) V G 'E N E FOUNDATION -- November 1C, 17, l8.. 4 400 FIFTH AVENUS PITT.iflURGH (u) A jlI Hygiene Digest - 15 1 1-*S August, 19^9 V -, However, grsat care should he taken to exclude the tuberculous in select ing persons to receive aluminum therapy. (U) It is not believed that a scientifically controlled experiment in industry is feasible for the evaluation of aluminum for the prophylaxis of silicosis. This follows from the uncontrollable variables inherent in the industrial situation and other factors which have been discussed. For these reasons, it appears improbable that any research agency would consider it advisable to under take such a project except under special conditions already discussed, and which may not be attainable. (5) The McIntyre Research Foundation, as t.. presently organized, is not equipped to solve the aluminum prophylaxis fir 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 now included in the program of the Saranac Laboratory of the Trudeau Foundation. -- Authors' Summary 56 Effects of Electricity on the Human Body. W.B. Kouwenhoven. Ind. Med. 16, 269 (July, 19^9). The author discusses briefly the various effects of electricity on the body, including variations with the amount of current. The current values of interest are: (l) threshold of feeling, about 1 milliampere, (2) let-go current, above which it is difficult to let go of a wire, about 9 milliampres for men, 6 for women; (3) current producing ventri cular fibrillation, 0.1 ampere; (U) current producing a block in the ner vous system, one ampere or more; and (5) the counter shock current. The last three result in death if prolonged; otherwise 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. 67 Asbestos is and Cancer of the Lung. Editorial. J.A.M.A. Dio; 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 show that the occurrence of cancer of the lung is related to pulmonary asbestos is. This relation is supported by the following observations: (l) The 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, which 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. s68 Changes in the Lungs Produced by Natural Graphite. H.E. Harding and G .B. Oliver. Brit. J. Ind. Med. 6, 91i99 (April, 19^9)- A brief description is given of the industrial uses of natural graphite, which is a crystalline carbon mixed with up to 10$ of free silica and with other minerals. The greatest dust risk occurs in the grinding of natural \ graphite, for which evidence is presented to show that this can lead to \ tw w iw IF g m iH W J a iH 'l U l lj J l UP