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PI* 4 "PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT ASBESTOS TEXTILE INSTITUTE ! -37T)323 P. O. BOX 230 73 CENTER ST., POMPTON LAKES, N. J. 07442 U. S. A. < 139-2216 Am cod* SOI 18 January 1965 Mr. J. T. Griffis H. K. Porter Co., Inc. ThermoId Division Charlotte, N. C. Gentlemen: I am attaching an article vhich vas written and appeared in "The Plain Dealer", January 12, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. Ve have already received several inquiries on this report from customers. Although this lists various occupations having significantly high lung cancer mortality rates, it certainly is alarming as far as our industry la concerned.I I think that this article should be the subject of soma con versation in our Board of Governors meeting in February. ^.exhibit fyCoUAJ JO 1 , I J1 a eoU o" o *1 o oe 3o iV* Si i:9 5: n ^3 4> 3 Si s. 11 i Q *" 5-i? 3 I a"2 2 n ** 5 o u *^VuI aOVI c3 2o 3 s--i t> O um is m c 2Si J"S Jeo; cO _- a -* 8 2 <3 IU e*J S. 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'eluded (lie lung cancers.* the or those who do insulation basic industrial hygiene con This was reported recently by : mesotheliomas and probably work as members of other 24 o( the digestive tract can cers appeared to be "signifi unions, such as longshoremen, ship builders, oll-bumcr and cant complications tos inhalation. of asbes better repairmen; shcctmetal workers, railroad, laborers and others in various trades." I.V THK UMTF.D STATES, There is almost no informa one in six deaths (rom all lion about the effects of as causes is from cancer. Among bestos products on Amerioan the asbestos Insulation work consumers and those incident ers studied, more than one in ally exposed to It. three deaths was from can- trol measures. The most seri ous deficiency is in the pro vision of adequate preventive measures in small plants of less than 500 employes, which accounts for two thirds of the (national) work force." The above statement Is from the reporil of a commit tee formed at the request of Surgeon General Luther L. Dr. Robert J. Anderson, chief of the Bureau of State Serv ices of the U.S. Public Health Service. Workmen listed as having significantly high lung cancer mortality rates were: black smiths, forgemen, hammer men, carpenters, auto me chanics and repairmen, metal molders, construction paint cer. SOME RESEARCHERS Terry to develop a program ers, paperhangers and giaz-' From such circumstantial from foreign countries report to improve environmental iers, plumbers and pipefitters. evidence the need for protec ed development of cancer In health. The committee, stationary engineers, tailors tion of such workers from in wives of asbestos workers, headed by Dr. Paul M. Gross, and furriers, tinsmiths, cop halation of asbestos becomes who washed their husbands professor of chemistry, Duke persmiths and sheet metal clear. clothes, in dry cleaners who University, spent a year on workers; operatives in pri These workers represent handled such clothes, In peo the assignment mary metal Industries and. only one small sampling of ple living In the neighborhood One of the committee's rec- elevator operators. the thousands are ex of asbestos factories or along dn.mendi.ions will *oe carried An occupational health sec posed to asbestos. They were the route by which asbestos out with the establishment of tion in the report by Dr. said to be "primarily engaged was hauled. a national center for environ Gross' committee concluded: in construction work in which The asbestos industry is mental sciences "for an en "There is a widening gap be they have relatively light In only one of many believed to hanced and major national ef tween the new materials be termittent exposure to asbes involve increased caocer fort in environmental health." ing created and an under tos-containing insulation .me hazards to workers and the The center will cost more than standing of- their effects on lerials." public, that are being handled $25 million. It will be situated Jiving systems . . . The indus They did not- Include- "non Inadequately or not at all. on a 400-acre tract in South trial worker is first exposed Carolina in the Raleigh-Dur- to the chemicals that find ham-Chapel Hill area, it was their way into home use. I announced last week. "Industry is the incubator for problems of more far- IT IS BELIEVED that reaching consequence and scarcely the surface has been alert, scientifically sound and .scratched in uncovering uoblased investigations of oc American occupational dis cupational health problems ease hazards. During the past can provide bases for later j year an analysis of lung can community-wide -invesUga-! cer mortality in the entire by occuoatinn United States, juons." . > has revealed 11 occupations) Next: The Personal Smog./ i