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V. c ( A J ( B irming ham 50 1 Q. Do you have any recollection of your visit to the Diamond Alkali plant? A* I remember going there I remember seeing some cases. I remember going to the hospital with Dr 5 Bleiberg to see a patient that was in-the hospital. 6 0 How did it come to be that you were 7 visiting this particular plant? a A. Well, I'm not sure whether Dr. Bleiberg called 9 and said he had these interesting cases and then we 10 said, well, we would have to come by virtue of being 11 invited by the state which was usually the p r o t o c o l . 12 The Public Health Service simply didn't go barging 13 into places without having proper entry. It would IS have beenthrough the State HealthDepartment. IS Q. Were you everinvited by the particular 16 enterprise itself? 17 A. ByDiamond Alkali? 18 Q. Yes. IS A . No 2C Q. Were you ever invited by any corporate 21 entity to visit their plant? 22 MR. RUSSO: In relation to what, sir? 23 I'm going to object to the form. U Yes. I was invited by the railroads, I think 25 the Southern Railroad and the MKET to look at some wgqg ond spinelli certified shorthand reporters Le e 17 1 coal miners and I had some personal input to that 2 activity. Of c o u r s e r we had a toxicological group *3 headed by Dr. Herb Stockinger, investigated any 4 cases of chemical poisoning that a p p e a r e d May I 5 break off to explain that the facility responded \ S only to requests from the appropriate de pa rt men t in 7 the state. It did not respond to any private 8 requests from industry or anybody else. The request 9 had to come from the state. 10 q . was the procedure at that time, if you 11 know, for the industry to go to the State Departmen 12 and then the State Department to seek help from the 13 Federal Public Health Department? 14 A. If industry wanted something done, they would 15 have to do it that way. 15 Q. Then am I correct in understanding your 17 testimony that industry could not come to the 18 Federal Department of Public Health Service directly 19 and ask for your assistance? 20 A. Except in an emergency, no. 21 Q. Thank you. 22 A. Well, going back then to we had a fairly large 23 number of industrial hygienists and engineers whose 24 job was to go out and take samples, devise 25 protective order measures, advise the various state w aaa and sninelli certified Shnrthnnri rannrtorc