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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1931 Oct 23 DOC#: NMA014 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Chicago California Enterprise - Dr. Morris Fishbein's Daily Health Service - Most Industrial Health is not Injurious to Lungs of Workers ii'Eo States Gypsum ugs library Ug;> Chicago \ > T'.T;. r. M orris Fishbein's ^ IT INDUSTRIAL DUST IS NOT INJURIOUS ^ TO LUNGS OF WORKER ' In a survey of the subject recently made,. Dr.. E, Coi- ,, lis points, out th at most dusts in such concentrations as o c -t1 ^ & cur in industry $0 ,not exert an injurious influence on the ' WP:" lungs. Workers in leather, in the shoe industry ahd./mi. /milling are in contact in sta n tly / witfr/tlie,: * dusts associated with .fliese working tstQ-3 ' ditions,. but axe not often sick as a 'r e s u lt^ ; There was a .time wheu flour duat " '. held tp .be. harmful. Lati it was f th a t the illness was due to-* /aking off-of , quartzite.frpm the millstone/ Tthe quart- if ; zite dust was the harrafr'1 . actor-' ratheTifi tha the flour dust. Today- hen flour ia i milled J?y steam rollers milk s do- not exf a ; perience the. same type of lung tro | |V ^Workers, in limestone, marbles gypsum, \ 1i and, in cement do not suffer muchyfro: Plshbel* fd u s t they .inhaTeV because I Hese .duak ,axe mp?tly- calc^umif duata..,aad cakluraL>i3...e8sily-^^fiajB^iL4; handled -b y -tho humap system. There are, However, othgr dusts which are not easily' taken up, such as those- from ;?#.- basic slag and emery. . \ - y '^ i. These diists contain oxid of aluminum, which is- not : ' easily dissolved in the tissues and which therefore m ust be coughed up. Constant exposure tp such dust causes re- peated inflammations of the tissues of the lungs and a type of bronchitis which becomes chronic nd serious. I is, of course, difficult to tell 'the difference between, bron chitis caused by dusts and th a t which results from.-ex- . i posure at hot furnaces and that due to the fumes th at - arise in various industries, or indeed that due to, severe - climatic conditions. t..*- Apparently the most harmful of all dusts is th a t de veloped in the industries using silica, particularly those a s sociated with basalt and asbestos. The dust o f asbest< < acts in connection with the tissue of the lung t a cause a , thickening or fibrous condition of the lungs which goes on rapidly'to a serious if not fatal condition. /' , Coal dust does not apparently produce any - unusual mortality from respiratory disease. '.The lungs o m m rs/ are found to be simply black with coal, dust serious disease of the lung `has developed.,'. Ifj howeweiy,j$bf^ coal dust is combined with silica dust! of- the type that- ' been, mentioned, the condition th at qev.elops may- be tremely serious. Dr. Fishbein is editor Journal of the,-American Association, and of Bygeia, the Health Magazine., GP060 1545