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if* 1936 112s* h * r * Bmnfmxl Metropolitan idfe Ih s u miim Go* Hew 'fork City Hew Xerk. Dear Sr* Bassford t Dr* Mgmr lifts reported fee m year letter of tee 3rd with its request for fuvttww infetna* felon# so figures which, war applied feo you la Dr* Edgar*a letter of 'ley 29tfc hr# fell host figures available on feh point ia which you are interested* It ia Impossible for t to- @i# you the met rafter of mm actually engaged Is istxiag m of any spaelfle date* our sasdnafeion reeerds show that tec number of wm Indicated for the respective year# war aoteaily alloyed ia mining during that year* They etaxr-aleo that this wm^m of men had aetual gpteur ia- th .miking operations* 8oat of the eximlnatftoha - are node daring ".the fall and. early eInter* Sow 03a my ho esaotgied at this tits# hat sueh-nea'siea eaiid not b included .among feh@ gjraap for that year*, Snr figures refer rather to, sa. whs had tmm engaged up to tbe time of . the rumination in mixing operations daring previous months. They sire* approximately accurate and there I4Ur ate seaas by which they as bs debit with sore m&nmt&lj sfnm m do mb o&lhtaitt a fils showing the met date on which the employment of any on of these men has been discontinued* 'Shat Is to say* m eelleet all our faofcs with regard to tees taea at the bias of their physical saataatltsu ?/ would not have informtIon about tinea at mj other time unless it be* esc necessary to oak interim egatalnatloRS for tee replace- moot of men who had discontinued this work* On the other hand* the oteraeter of our lafomatlua and supsrvlelos Is such that if any of those msm developed an illntea In which load, ntght be suspected as a factor* would he promptly informed in order to ittvofttigote the character of fcho Illness* t m sorry m% to ho, able to give you the infomation which you. desire* but 1 mm so no way we am wife it available to yep* gore?* 1' can so# m way in stitch such infmation could fee obtained in the fhfeuro without, th expenditure Of a great deal of tiae and trouble in, essentially unproductive work on reporte m sen:in. fete refineries* snoh reports would 'occasion, eonslderable in- <* 2 ** dr* .ft* H, BaasfoM oonvealonos fcs s* ofInmrf saaagei3fcs and miid not- gala for us as. useful Inforsaatiop as eas bs obbsdnsd .hf direst oaMst .,taii fcts immag@afe afe th&-tixa of oo* zaedioaX esmainafclops # Very tnl| yours* HAH: i Is ec Dr.Edgar 'l# 'We^s^,1 XI3* KE 0015446