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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1968 DOC#: NMA204 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Washington Post Story Referred to in Minutes of Shipbuilders Council of America, Apr. 2, 1969 -U.S Warned of Asbestos Peril ... - r . * J r . T H E wASHIa GTOa r u o T v ; -------- --- :------- :-- -- ; y 'V ' \ " 'v.-.' /.... : . r / V f . - O V : * V.-V,. :UoSo Warmed off Asbestos P e ril SyThesiat OToole . T t v W .u t M M a t (>4<C W ill r TS# Covernmtnt ho* been In'd that Urn Nation"* 353,COO ahlpyard workors face a torion'. occupational hurtrd from tho asbestes in their place of w k. The am ins * Riven last September to the Navy, the -l.Bhrvr Department acid the Public Health Service by New York"* Mount SiMl Hoipltal, where anlapiia have shown that moat icon who worked In shipyard! hod "cxcewlvc" oi. bestos flb m In their lunpi, a condition that often leads to Mirieus long disease. So far. the three rcderal dcparlmeeti have made ns publie eteomrtndsmcr.l cf thereport or It* content. Auloptfr* have been done on about 1CO0 perront who lied In Mount Sinai, Elmhurst Hospital in Qucciu and Velcr- AdmlnUtratlon ltojplul In the Bronx tr, tl last two year*. Itoutfily .hnU of tlicje had asbestos traect In their bniirr maker*, team filter*, tuns, but a lepcrrinc COper welder*, riveter* *nd cron*-cent of TOtr.tn who had tr-rn nee;*--men who n e w handle iliipyard worker* nt or./* funr Babesia*. In their live* h v t 'contldera- Mount Plnnl's slndr follows ble" asbcitos Dber* In their.one In Britain whrre nsbeitos lunct. iotne-of th e v nwo had hacarri* In fiuar Hjral Workpent as JUOc * one week ax'ynnU were examined. The rc- shlpyard worker*.. * |ullt were reporlcdln a recent \ n ml Aihcllos Dust 1**1? nl TTie Annals of Orrtipnlioeal Jlyerco*; a Drillsh T h e Incredible thine U medical Journal. ' none of tliese mc:t wi re hM-l . vitiin fo* worker*.- **irt Dr. I m r e / " ''" 10' 11 ywUBtV J. Scllkoff, director of UnvJ.I In the pajt year, the report ronmenlnl Medicine nl Mount will, dockyard worker* from Sjlnal yesterday. no fewer than.t2differentoc- Dr. Sellkoff explained thaticupatten* (from entfn filter only shout 1 |icr cent ef the (to inker) had been accepted men worklnr. In shipyard* hsn-jhy Britt! health authoritU* die aibeitus directly, but that a.v victim o f ai)>eitoli, molt shipyard work is con. ehronlr Inflammation of the fined to such small places, like lu rt that cancel hnrlncss uf ship's holds, thal just about all breath and heart dis-ne. shipyard worker* "Inhale as- Tlie men In ten of there 12 bento* dust on tho lob.' occupation* work In mail, The TO ex-shipyard workers "marhlnery tpaeei." where on wham autopilot have hern they breathe In asbestos fiber* performed *o far by Mount by accident. Of on otlmMrd Sinai had been electricians. OOflOO worker* Ip tho four Hellish dockyards, only c uin-c In direct conlact with a berto*. . A fatal ^cancer of the chc wait called mcnnlhcUoma li cropped np In itorkyard no? ex* In five different occur Units, the Drlllih repart This I* a career almost pco lar to nibcsln* workers, o' yet nnpc oi live victim* iu< Honed in the JWUih stn worked with asbestos. 71 were holler makers, flltc welder*, shipwright* and p ctal laborers. Mount Sinai'* Dr. ScUk said lhat he and a team of d tor* have yet to analyte the shipyard workers for cause death, lie aha said that team will *tuily another s autopsies done in the In'rt I year* for evidence of osbc: in tlie luns*. Hut It seems eln.nr there problem heir," Dr. Sclll- laid. T h a t f) why 1 hronph to (he aUcallon of the Govi mcnL* _ ,c f.- . > > ' % . v/ . ; .... . '.** . ', -- ................................................... . i ; V ; j ................. ............................... ' * *!. >1 , * . . V . . . . . " ! * .' . -- ' . . ...................................................