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Industrial Hygiene Digest February, 1961 exposed persons. Paraformaldehyde has a characteristic odor and la irritating to the eyes and upper respiratory passages. Paraformaldehyde is a combustible solid having a flash point below its melting point. Generation of dust is usually accompanied by vapors. Care must be exercised in handling and storage to keep paraformaldehyde away from flame, sparks or highly heated surfaces as it will burn readily. If heated, it gives off flammable formalde hyde vapor. Paraformaldehyde dust may form an explosive mixture with air. Formation of water solution evolves formaldehyde which is flammable. Copies of Chemical Safety Data Sheet SD-6 on Paraformaldehyde are available at 30 cents each from the Manufacturing Chem ists' Association, Inc., 1825 Connecticut Ave., Washington 9, D. C. 109 Hygienic Guide Series. The following additional Hygienic Guides are now available: Stiblne (Antimony Hy dride), Phosgene (Carbonyl Chloride), n-Butylamine (1-Aminobutane), and Dioxane (Diethyl ene-1,4 dioxide). They are given in the December AIHA Journal (pp. 529-534) and can be obtained from the American Industrial Hygiene Association, 14125 Prevost, Detroit 27, Mich., at 25 cents each. -- Am. Ind. Hyg. Assn. J. OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE STATISTICS 110 Occupational Disease Statistics. (Cases reported to the respective Health Departments. ) Colo. Nov. Conn. Nov, Ind. Oct.-Dec. Pa. Tenn. Dec. -Jan. Dec, Total Dermatitis Fumes (unidentified) Hepatitis (infectious) Insecticide (unknown) Lead poisoning Paint poisoning Perchloroethylene Plastic chemicals Pneumoconiosis Pneumoconiosis (suspected) Respiratory Infection Silicosis Silicosis (suspected) Trichloroethylene Tuberculosis Undulant fever (Brucellosis) Miscellaneous Total 28 2 2 1 2 35 21 * 1 l 1 24 5* 1 1 1 l 9 12 11 77 33 13 2 12 l l 1 66 66 10 10 1t 46 1l 1 22 1 2 100 12 180 * Causes are listed as follows: Connecticut: Occupational dermatitis due to oils and greases, 4( occupational der matitis due to'solvents, 4; occupational dermatitis due to other chemicals: glues 1, multichemicals 3, paint 1, synthetic resins or resin compounds 2; occupational dermatitis--other: infection 3, soaps or detergents 1, miscellaneous 2. Indiana: Electroplating solutions lj sand 1} organic solvents lj cause not stated 2. 03120734 2.