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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1931 Oct 23 DOC NMA014 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Chicago California Enterprise - Dr. Morris Fishbein's Daily Health Service - Most Industrial Health is not Injurious to Lungs of Workers WIED STATES GYPSUM C LIB"RARY ep es, Peay. CHICAGO Morris Fishbein's 32 ---- OF HOST INDUSTRIAL DUST IS INJURIOUS a= } TO LUNGS WORKER 5 ___ | In a surveoyf the subject recently made Dr. E. w Col- lis points out that most dusts in such concentrations as occur in industry not exert an injurious influence on the lungs -} a , Workers in leather in the shoe industry andin are in contact constantwiltyh milling flour dust _ _ dusts associated with these working ; ~ ditions but are not often sick as a result ~ There was time when was held to be harmful Lat it was found found that the illness was due to eaking off the millstone t1he quart- quartzite from mils zite dust was the harmful . actor rather than the flour dust Today hen flour is by ( milled steam rollers mils mils do not ex- . perience the same type of lung trouble imi... Workers in limestone marble Fishbent |andin cement do not suffer much calcium dusts and calcium however and | | mostlcaylcium handled easily other human system There are however from dusts which are not easily taken up such as those , not basic slag and emery aluminum not These dusts contain oxide of aluminum which is } i easily dissolved in the tissues and which therefore must be . , coughed up Constant exposure to such dust causes re- oe peated inflammations of the tissues of the lungs and a If. _Ceai to severe type of bronchitis which becomes chronic and serious +2 is of course difficult to tell the difference between bron- 9 chitis caused by dusts and that which results from = _ < eh posure at hot furnaces and that due to the fumes that arise in various industries or indeed that due 9: > ; de- UES climatic conditions . Apparently the most harmful of all dusts is that de- >. bS5 veloped the industries using silica particularly those as- sociated with basalt and asbestos The dust of asbestos J > acts in connection with the tissue of the lung to cause a , w_a if lungs miners develops may however the | | RNAS thickening or fibrous condition of the lungs which goes . ae F| rapidly to a serious not fatal condition : ret Coal dust does not apparently produce any unusual mortality from respiratory disease The of B\ are found to be simply black with coal and dust however ng serious disease of the lung has developed developed If coal dust is combined with silica dust the type that has! |} been mentioned the condition that tremely serious 1 Vg we foes: | Dr. Fishbein is editor Journal of the American i | Association and of Hygeia the Health Magazine aan , \ GP060 1545