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Q ! i|, i,,,^ CovimMHrtrtJl BuH Kr tK AtMtlH* Am*- * iImmi fiK n AdvkftrHNrM tK Si.V rAt||U *n ;* i* U( fv. ,f Hiidmik <l Ui* IUllM. T*aV l)K*W( tv. !*. JmiIM* 4mr FvUk !?** r By I. ]. Selikoff 1 no not know if it is entirely appropriate to con However, comfort was provided, this time in the sider our current problems with asbestos an."im- Home Office Report put before the English Parlia nn1icipnlr.fi environmental hazard." As I look back, ment. in'.. 1950. While pulmonary disease among ., it would seem that we should have had some premo asbestos workers in the past was acknowledged, It - : nition. -r was simultaneously concluded that the outlook was - For example, 70 years ago.H. Montague Murray,. .. good.^fn th$ space of a decade,.or thereabouts, the then Senior Physician at the Charing Croaa'.Hospi-.: iijeff^^pjr;"eherg^ic appUeaOon.',of preventive ,mea-- , li: ..tal in^liondbh, examined a man of 8S suffering with ^auresahonid be apparentJn a great re'ductiod.jn "the^^^- . "pulmonary fibrosis. He had been working in the '^incidence of fibrosis." carding room of an asbestos textile factory. Of the . , . Such.ogtimism persisted for ..the next SO years; : . &** ,______ ___ # -gv. a -l.' _ iiij____ l a . .i--' _____i- :'l ' severely' scarred lungs containing numfcrb^^iufceiiiMk^inMji^wer^^ a .few .rurnbllngrs.;during this time,;***:., tos fibers. Dr. Murray described this' ca^^ffehe "^`x^noeT.^Sib<',l6hould jpei^aM^ejjibarraas us enf'lne dust. so that the disease is not so likely to'bccuf'ij^ heretofore. ^^^.^ ^ - ;, \The disease which '-----'----- J ** iL-'- vSf.-s^' nirn'e^nblr-'Aid it whe tipwever,. &ese' reports yefe..categorized . ^Udgnyiiytiil curiositi'es. Even the careful studies'- {JirtSeb^ea'iViOuertolfung pancer : ``mortem examlnationsal one asbw- ' TiVconcluded that "v ...'lung ^ f s \V . m6s particular virtue in science; jndlvid^ * eVtflenlTVlfRncooWiOcsci^b^knothe?^ and t927 and gave the illness'its current'bamef--;. ; not--could point to a'problerivwith a rathe/ narrow . :wlestosiR. We can' now accurately record, for ex ' speclnma.-A- single beoplasrh* (lung cancer) was ample, that ten percent of the deaths among asbes (past tense) a specific industrial hazard (no hint tos insulAtion workers in New York in the past 25 that if could be more than this) of certain asbestos years were due to asbestosis. workers (the heavily exposed individuals in this The new category was soon replete with cases. factory),^'-: . ' ' March, !!!> 0000 0930 PRODUCED BY FORD HFM - 008370