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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1971 June 29 DOC NMA054 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Cities Are Acting to Regulate Spraying of Asbestos Cities Are Acting to Regulate Spraying of Asbestos By MICHAEL KNIGHT New York Times Current file Jun 29 1971 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Pg 61 Cities Are Acting to Regulate Spraying of Asbestos By MICHAEL KNIGHT Several tonsof it are American sprayed into the airin every throughout micrmosiccorpiocscopic carryit ; Those particles breathe them throughout life And sometimes 20 30 years later the deadly effects Inabiltiotbyreathe or pant ram- lungcancer to be The mineral have sheets the buildings substance isasbestos a whose firmepartotofedfibiefrinsbteros It sprayed now in- highrriissee : country Cities around the country often withthe help of the as- bestos workers ginning to regulate uonirons ban be- sprayionfg asbestos as the and delayed effects of with contact withda it are becoming MostMost endangered endangered endangered arsebestos workers sheets around bollers and steam pipes or who spray it on automobile brakes or onto steel beamsin construction Butamong increasingly there is amonghealth experts worrythe large amounts that that allowed are may air during to escape the spraying into may affWehctenthtohuesannedwsMsioprasyfingsosprayinug rimStaatye building in Kansas office recently Citythe blew all over the stuff business sald Richard business Asbestos Workers manager of Asbestos 27 went all Some of it all the way downtown he said The stuff is really dangerous they but can see it it's harmful don't know Industry publications esti per cent of asbestos that used the asbestos used in sprayingspraying is air lost into the Inhalation of the asbestos dust forms deposits on the absorbed lungs that are never or downscarring tissues and blocking their abil difficulty ity to absorb oxygoxygenen The re- sulting in breathing is a result of a condition incurable asbestosis which is and can be fatal According to Dr. Irving J. Sellkoff director of the En- vironmental Sciences Labora- Center Sinai Medical at Mount Center here people exposed to asbestos have much higher rate of lung and intestinal cer than those never expeoxspoesedd to it Smoking Dr. Selikoff drastically increases says the risk who smoke ciga- people rettes and are exposed to dust have a lung cancer rate 92 times higher than the sta- tistical Even the wives of men who work with asbestos are endan the dust their hus- bands bybring home Milton according toon Goldberg environmental Goldberg an environmental field engineer in the Allegheny of Depaarstbemsetonst County Health Pittsburgh down asbestos has sprayed been sprayed he said and it may you for 20 or yeayerars affect years Selikoff Selikof foremost national probablty haeu- thority on asbestos said that as long ago as 1924 it was discovered that people who worked with asbestos devel- oped scarred lungs It took al- most 30 more years of study he said to link it with cancer Boston and Chicago last toaly spraying country spraying of banned New York it from city projects a month later and has severely restricted its use as have Los Angeles De- Philadelphia troft and areas throughout Other the country are considering bans or regu- lations on spraying The regulations of the cities enforced emnefnotrced by fines and basically punish- similar call the for enclosing They enclosing area in a tarpaulin and Installation Instal ation adequate venti- Installation Instal ationsystems or the use of effective respirator face masks The entire area including walls and ceilings must be vacuum- cleaned afterward to remove any dust that is left over state Angeles ^ nLos son engl Angeles John N. Jepsafety neer said that on occasion it has been necessary to shut down a construction job for a few days when the regulations were not followed A few shutdowns on a big job brings the picture into clear focus and refrain from any further vio lations Chicasgaoid stringent bans as most spraying and for cal s including month penalties Also causing practice of lining worry is the the inside of conditioning ducts with as- building moving there are as yet no remilations in this field contractors are be- to put the asbestos on ginning the outside of the ducts or to specially coated asbestos jusethat locks dust in the being |" Substitutes for asbestos are found in cement and fl- berglass products Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission