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HH8B-U009775 - S', Air Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc,, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa, January 24, 1939. REFERENCES TO RECENT LITERATURE ON INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (A) News Items 1 STANDARDS FOR ANALYZING DUST CONCENTRATION. Labor Standards, O.S, Dept, of Labor 1, S (November 1938), The American Standards Association has recently authorized its committee on stan dards of permissible atmospheric contamination in work places to develop standards for safe limits of concentration for toxic dusts and gases. This technical com mittee, comprising eminent toxicologists, pathologists und industrial engineers, and set up at tlx request of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, is to review the work of other organizations, to set up specific standards on toxic materials and to furnish physicians and engineers in terested with information on injurious exposure. Dr, Roy R. Jones of the U. S. Public Health Sorvice, is to act as technical secretary of the committee. 2 COUNCIL ON INDUSTRIAL HEALTH. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 111. 2128 (Docember 3, 1938).. The first Annual Congress on Industrial Hoalth sponsored by the American Medical Association was held January 9 and 10, 1939 p.t tho Palmer Houso In Chicago* On the program were Articles and papers which will be of interest and which will be abstracted in this Bulletin- cs they are published. 3 NOMENCLATURE IN INDUSTRIAL HEALTH. J. Ain. Med. Assoc. Hi, 117-8 (Deoember 3, 1938). The language of industrial hoalth is at pro'sent incapable of full expression with in tho strict confines of scientific terminology. Variations in source and deriv ation of the usages and idioms has resulted in wide confusion and there Is a need, according to the Council on Industrial Health of the American Medical Association, for a definition of the terms used. To this end the Council proposes to publish a compendium which will define and explain the various terms now in use. 4 SILICOSIS PRIOR TO OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE aCT. Labor Standarda, U.S. Dopt. of Labor 1, 6 (Sept.-Oct. 1938). Affirming a decision in'the circuit court, tho Supreme Court of Michigan recently dismissed a damage suit for deaths from silicosis prior to October 9, 1937, when the State occupational diseaso law wont into effect. The suit. Involving eight cases of doath from silicosla, claimed negligence on the part of the employer in falling to provide proper ventilation and exhaust systems to remove the silica dust. Both plaintiffs* and the defendant wore under the State compeneatlon act at the tine the silicosis was contracted, 3 ENFORCING THE SILICA DUST CODE. Labor Standards, U.S. Dept, of Labor, 1, 15 (Docember 1938), A procedure designed to expedite enforcement of the code for control of silica dust In rock drilling has been authorized by the New York State Industrial Com missioner, Contractors trill bo allowed 10 days to comply with the first order to ( '! SC-ALL-01755 SCF-ALLF-00565 mm