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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May 28 DOC NMA048 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - City Acts to Curb Asbestos Spray Spraying New York Times Current file May 28 1970 ProQuest HistoricalNewspapers The Spraying New Spraying because Spraying replaces PS hhaass rapidly grown rapidly rapidly the costlier method of enclosing ACTS CURB supporting members in con- CITY TO crete crete process In the spraying process how- ever 58 much as 50 per cent ASBESTOS SPRAY the asbestos escapes into the air Begins Hearings on Cancer Peril in Industrial Use To control this the regula- by tions proposed the city would require the enclosing of spray and areas and cleanup and disposal By DAVID BIRD The city opened hearings yes- terday would proposed regulations tihnagtof asbestcoosnttroolintshuelatsepraanyd fireproof buildings The regulations concerning implcated can- causing agent strongly implicated has can- strongly implicated as would be the - that procedures Dr. Selikoff said that as long 1924 it was discovered that people who worked with asbestos developed scarred years lungs It took almost 30 more of study to link the aswith cancer A study of 632 members of the asbestos workers union here was begun in 1943 by Dr. 403 Selikoff By last of the 632 April 4 he said had died 72 of lung cancer He termed that number of lung cancer deaths just regulations officials officials said regulations would be regulations extended extended to the spraying of all such material One ofSelikoffwitnesses director Dr. Irving.J Environmental Sciences Laboratory at Mount Medical Center and a leading specialist on the dangers of as- bestos study had prove said that long years prove caused cancer long asbestos and that he was not willing to play Russian roulette with the a disaster because in a nor- mal group of that size only 10 about such deaths would be expected taminationphysician said the con- tamination had spread to the point where every person in New York City has some as- bestos in his lungs The proposals to enclose as bestos spraying the the public State spraying areas to protect drew concern from Labor Department that concentrations of the dust might then be even greater for those * doingthe Jack Baliff the State spraying chief engineer of Industrial agency's division said the high- er concentrations of asbestos Dr. Sellkoff said that such sfiubbesrtgiltaustseshadas roloncg k wool and lasting quaaln-d dust would require breathing apparatus with an independent air supply instead of pres- ent filter masks Dr. Robert N. lungn periods and therefore dam- lungn dam- for lonpgeriods tissue as asbestos did lungn theA Long Suspect has long been con- spraying relatively has in- Department Department Department heads Resources who Department new city's Air Resources regulations in- clude that protection The hearings 10 AM at today resume at Cooper Unlon 51 Astor Place which is also the headquarters of the Depart- ment Air Resources spray- public Most of ing done to make buildings Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction