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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1968 Dec 4 DOC NMA037 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The Washington Post - U.S. Warned of Asbestos Peril an mene to ete es Mamenwee 444 ae et one km, we r U.S. of AsbestosPerilPeril 24 WednesdayDec.4196T8 HE WASHINGTON FOST U.S.Warned of " . oy) O'Toole had asbestos traces their filters dockyards only ByThomas . . Washington Post Bluff Writer The Government has been in baller makers steam British 4 contact with lungs but a staggering 20 welders riveters and en i come in direct a cent of 70 men who had been neers who never handle bestos the che > told that the Nation's 350,000 shipyard workers at one time asbestos A fatal cancer of called shipyard workers face a seri in their lives had considera- Mount Sinal's study follows wall mesothelioma h our occupational hazard from the asbestos in their place of work ble asbestos fibers in their one in Britain where asbestos lungs Some these men hadhazards in four Royal Dock spent as little as one week asiyardsasiyards were examined The re cropped up in dockyard wor ers in five different occur tions the British report sai The warning was given Inst'shipyard Inst'shipyard workers., ^ sultswere reported in recent This is a cancer almost peet September to the Navy the Ashestos Dust isets of The Annals of Occu far to asbestos workers a Labor Department and the pational Ilyriens a British yet none of the victims mit thing Public Health Service by New The incredible is medical journal York's Mount Sinai Hospital none of these men were nabes where autopsies have shownitos workers said Dr. Irvingshestosis Victims Irvingshestosis , oo - tioned in the British sti worked with asbestos Th were holler makers fitte shownitos that most men who worked in J.J. Selikoff director of Envil In the past year the report welders and g shipwrights shipyards had excessive as ronmental Medicine at said deckyard workers from cral laborers Mount bestos fibers in their lungs a Sinal yesterday no fewer than .12 different oc- Mount Sinal's Selik explained Dr. condition that often to Dr. Selikoff that cupations from engine fitter said that he and a team of d leads aerious lung disease only about 1 per cent of the to stoker had been accepted tors have yet to analyze the de- So far the three Federal men working in shipyards hanby hanby British health authorities shipyard workers for cause have made no pub dle asbestos directly but that as victims of asbestosis a death He also said that partments 2 * He acknowledgment of the re most shipyard work is con- chronic inflammation of the team will study another port or its contents fined to such small places like lungs that causes shortness of autopsies done in the Insti Insti Autopsies have been done on about 1000 persons who died in Mount Sinal Elmhurst in Hospital in Queens and Veter- ship's holds that just about all shipyard workers Inhale asbestos dust on the job The 70 shipyard workers breath and heart disease The men in ten of these 12 occupations work sma machinery spaces where years for evidence of asbes in the lungs But seems clear there problem here Dr. Sell ans Administration Hospital in on whom autopsies have been they breathe in asbestos fibers said That is why I brough the Bronx in the last two performed so far by Mount by accident Of an estimated to the of Gove ment attention the years Roughly half of these Sinai had been electricians 50,000 workers in the four wr. Pees me cee foe ante ery et wee ras soe +s ome cone 2 Te . 7. , 4 rr