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FILE NAME: Asbestos Sacks and Bags (ASB) DATE: 1968 May 10 DOC#: ASB047 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Asbestos Stowage Makes Dockers Down Tools o O' O bmuuiKmAL ftue-Cunwo Estract from Medical N o n , London t o MAY 195? Asbestos stowage makes dockers down tools A HEALTH scare was touched off by a London docker last week when he discovered th at asbestos and cheese can- goes had been stowed next to each other In a ship's hold. Mr. Jim Botley of Surrey Com* mercial Docks knew that raw of Ms gang downed tools. They asbestos gave off a dust so dan refused to handle the cheese gerous that dockers wore masks until they had informed the Poet to unload i t of London health authorities When he discovered that dust and got masks to work in ths had leaked out onto the crates ship's hold. at cheese be and the remainder A port health Inspector went on board the vessel, the Swedish ship Vretahohn, to examine the load and the complete unload ing operation was supervised by a health official the " day. A port health commented "T he separated from the cheese by polythene sheeting but tome asbestos fibre had seeped out Oh to the cheese boaws. I t is ton likely that any of the dust would have got through to the cheese which had a thick protective rind around it inside the bones. " We followed through the un loading operation and th e n wee no danger of contamination" The Ministry of Labour is studying the problem of the menace of isbestosa among In dustrial workers, methods of peeking Asbestos in iT*iw r m i am now being tried. G r^ S U 'S * / o 1 :,-!r