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Studfag next to 10* mrbW bait, ttmJUd *t a ceremocgr o May 21 fa tit* Fferridu* Lavage cf tb* KllPffOitda ClfalaU Center, k Xoeeph K33gginetting Quinaaa foncrita* of i* Medial Center Board. At the left k tb* jculptor, Dr. Minsk* Herter, redred ececodv* vic*- peeddeat of tb* Fodcradoa of Xewkk Pfegaatoropta, with (Car kit) Gustav* U Levy, Medical Cester ftoqij nnfiiimrTIB'lliin ndilii Qfiifc *1 Otter k mined for Mr. aad Mrs. ftoAua. A Meant Shut board fitryJ-tTITiht mu TtfiMnif of the Hocpttal 1954-1962, ----" ^ U. SrEnlists Mount Sinai Lab's Help In Great Lake Pollution Emergency The U.S. Environmental Protection "Our concern," said Dr. Selikoff, "stems Agency has requested Mount Sinafs En from the fact that the Paterson tihcstoi vironmental Sciences Laboratory to under workers through the years accumulated take a crash program on the effects of and retained large amounts of amositc drinking of asbestos-contaminated water asbestos fibers in their body tissues. In by residents of Duluth and nearby Min asbestos workers, whose exposure to the nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan com fibers has been mainly through inhalation, munities yyfao usc Lake Superior for .their.,, the msbeatos-eaused cancers generally did water supply. not show up for 20 or 30 years. On June 15, the E.P.A. disclosed that "If the residents of Duluth have similar "high concentrations" of mineral fibers had been found in the lake waters, hereto fore considered pure for drinking. The fibers are believed to come from waste dis charges from a taconite mining company which has been dumping waste rock tail accumulations of asbestos as did asbestos workers, we are concerned about the future." Dr. Hammond and other American Cancer Society researchers wifi analyze ings daily into the largest of the Great the death records of 3,000 Duluth resi Lakes for 16 years. Dr. Selikoff said that dents who have been part of a national his laboratory had already identified the cancer survey of one million persons fol fibers as the amositc variety of asbestos, lowed since 1959. Dr. Hammond will look the type found by him and his colleagues for possible early signs of increased deaths 22 years ago to cause deaths among from cancer, particularly that of the workers ins Paterson, N.L, asbestos plant. gastrointestinal tract. These workers experienced three times the expected death rate from cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. T\^xtends Reach Dr. Selikoff has set up his staff to work Continued from page 4 12-hour shifts around the clock to that o Dr. Carter Marshall, Associate Pro testing results might be available within fessor of Community Medicine, injffurge a few weeks "in light of the seriousness of his department's audio-visual programs, of the potential hazard." tjbe television link represents our first At press time, he and Dr. E. Cuyler tort to expand the effectiveness of .ail Hammond, Adjunct Professor of Com th personnel delivering health services munity Medicine and vice president of the whatever the organizational framework, American Cancer Society, had gone to it private or group practice. Duluth to set up the studies which will Spelling out some of the areas In which compare the accumulation of asbestos saw potential for telemedicine com- fibers in the tissues of Duluth residents jimlnarion, be said: There's no reason with that of asbestos workers and of peo a system like this couldn't be adapted ple with no known exposure to the mineraL a well to serve adults, say in a rural Dr.. William J. Nicholson, Assistant to bring health information to the Professor of Community Medicine, and [y homebound, to establish finks be- a biophysicist, has also begun analyzing the school nurse in tire public samples of the Minnesota city's air and ila with physicians." water.-'--____ Although, sccoriflng to -Dr. Selikoff, there have been no pure studies of the Research Gcants effects of Ingestion of asbestos in humans, i the last issue of XhfMount Sinai the EJ?.A. said that limited animal studies "CenterNews, S1,236,1S5 has been have indicated that when asbestos is p| f toTMounhSinii School of Medi- in the stomach, it rapidly enters the I rContinued research ilmH^. 11| n stream and is widely distributed to tissues icame from the US. Department of throughout the body. , Education and Welfare. PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT USX-1140 v-