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FILE NAME: &'ZZ&' DATE: DOC#: &' DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION:d:Zd/Z:Z A Weekly Record of the ,RUBBER: GUTTA-PERCHA,. ASBESTOS AND , .! LONDON,: ropiitO4 IVIACLARNAND SollS, LTD., 37 and 38, Shoe Lane, E.C.4 Ruary 14. 1933. THE INDIA-RUBBER JOURNAL 5 estos Trade Items Asbestos is employed in the construction of flexible tubing for petrol, made according to Patent No. 376,111, recently granted to H. 0. N. Shaw, 112, Wardour Street, London, and Petro-Flex Tubing Co., Ltd., c St. Albans Road, Watford. The tube comprises a lining c of one or more layers b of animal gut or intestine, wrapped or d drawn over an internal helical wire armouring b, a covering d of asbestos yarn e closely woven or braided upon the said lining, an armouring e of helically-wound a wire over the asbestos, and a smooth, outer covering f of woven or braided tinned copper wire. The wires b, e, which may also be of tinned copper, are preferably arranged so that the coils of one alternate with the coils of the other and cause intimate contact between the asbestos covering d and the gut lining c. The tube may be formed upon a mandrel a, and the gut is preferably used in a wet condition er being treated with glycerine. tuberculosis. Of the nine females with active tuberculosis, one had worked for three months picking up bobbins where she was not exposed to dust ; then she had discontinued work for 18 months, and returned for a further three months to spinning and weaving. One had had 15 months' exposure, and the remaining seven periods varying from 4 to 13 years. The male patient had had seven years' exposure. The authors suggest that since eight of the total 39 cases of females with pulmonary asbestosis were young girls between the ages of 18 and 21, and since it is well known that adolescent and young adult females are specially susceptible to pulmonary tuberculosis, any occupation which exposes the lungs to risk of damage at this period of life is undesirable. Draft Regulations have now been issued by the Home Office excluding " young persons " (i.e., those under 18 years of age) from the industry. The Marking of Imported Rubber PLY and Shoes * *; * ficate Required for. Certain Asbestos Goods A Boar(' of Trade Announcement The Board of Trade announce that, in pursuance of morandum No. 597, issued on 3r4 December by the the 'powers conf erred 'upon them by Section 3 of the inion Department of National Revenue, states that a Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, they have given a catein the following form is required'to be written, Direction, namely, the Merchandise Marks (Imported Ali or)(stamped on the face ,oy lbacic I of invoices Goods) Exemption Direction (No. 1), 1933, in regard to ng goods for entry into Canada iunder the British the Merchandise Marks (Imported Goods) No. 3 Order, erential Tariff under Tariff Item 312a :-- 1932. !c I, , an' official of This order requires imported boots, shoes and slippers name of company), the experters'of the asbestos and/or made of rubber or with rubber soles; rubber overshoes, anufaciiirers thereof included in this invoice, have the with or without heels; and rubber footholds, to bear an means ofoknowing and do hereby '.certify that the sbestos contained therein is made from crude asbestos indication or origin applied to each article by means of wholly of British Empire origin, and that I am duly letters in relief impressed prior to vulcanization. uthorised to make and sign, this certificate. The Direction mentioned above allows goods which (Signed) were imported before the 9th July, 1932, and are sold Dategi,,ii; 0. j. 1g f day of or exposed for sale before the 1st January, 1934, to be marked in the following manner :-- ;Oe caorwisf:f--Item 312a, referred to above, reads as Sta(m1)pedAilnl calcaosnsetrsasotifnggocoodlosuerxocnetphtersuhbabnekrobrohoetesl.,--or e `Asbestos in any form other than crude, and all manu- on the insole. (2) Rubber boots.--Stamped in a contrasting colour ctures thereof, when made from crude asbestos of ire origin--British Preferential Tariff, Free; Inter- on the shank or heel, or on a label securely attached to each boot. 0 iate Tariff, 22i% ad valorem, and General Tariff The Board have referred to the Standing Committee ci % ad valorem." appointed by them under the Act for consideration the * * question whether the Order-in-Council should be e Toll of Asbestosis amended either in accordance with the terms of the Several articles on asbestosis have recently appeared Direction which they have given, or otherwise in respect ,the Medical Journals. One of these (in the Lancet of of the goods in question. Ll st October, 1932, pp. 954, 956) is noteworthy as Representatives of any interests substantially affected engthening the case for excluding young girls from by the above matter, who desire to make representations upation in the Asbestos Industry. In this the authors to the Committee, are requested to communicate with the . B. Wood and S. R. Gloyne) give particulars Secretary, Mr. E. W. Reardon, at the Board of Trade a series of 57 cases of pulmonary asbestosis, twelve Offices, Great George Street, London, S.W.1, as early as t of these 57 cases showed evidence of pulmonary possible, and in any case not later than the 28th January, berculosis at a post-mortem examination of four who , evidence of obsolescent tuberculosis was found in 1933. 'The Direction is being published, and copies may o and of active tuberculosis in the other two. Of shortly be purchased either directly from His Majesty's non-fatal cases, seven had tubercle bacilli in the Stationery Office at the following addresses :-- utum, and the eighth had a well-marked apical cavity. Adastral House, Kingsway, W.C.2; 120, George Street, total number of females with pulmonary asbestosis - 39, nine of whom had active tuberculosis; the total Edinburgh ; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast; or tub& of males was 18, of whom only one had active through any bookseller. (43)