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FILE NAME State of the Art Literature SAL DATE 1944 Nov DOC SAL042 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Abstract - Asbestosis Carcinoma & Pulmonary ABSTRACT OF THE LITERATURE OF INDUSTRIAL COLUME 26 HYGIENE AND NOVEMBER 1944 TOXICOLOGY NUMBER 9 mo CONTENTS stemic and Caysiology and Arupational diseases the skin eE dustrialn toxicoloe gy .. ral stemic and nutrition infectious occupational diseases occupations! sents ec. seeeccceeeeeseeeees of 177 179 180 184 188 Medicine surgery and therapy 190 Medical services pnecceeccessececcsssens 195 Industrial environmental conditions veces 195 Ventilation air conditioning and engineering . 196 Detearnmidnation analysis Atmospv hera ic panod rsanalysis dust smoke gases Determination , , pee sen eee neeeaes aoe. pollution peovcaec ce saceeees Accidents and their prevention 197 197 197 GENERAL SCEPTIBILITY TO ACCIDENTS Flanders Dunbar Med Clinics of North America vol 28 no 3 pp 653 66M2 ay 1944 . these patients after the accident has happened you can't get around fate I got mine today you'll get yours tomorr Steo phw en L. Madey . proved Personality profiles are reported which have ` SOME ASPECTS OF SICE ABSENCE IN INDUSTRY H H. agnostically useful for the accident habit and accident relative to the Bashford Brit J. Indust Mfed vol 1 no 1 PP troneness Any dynamic formulation profile of these accident personalities should begin of defenses 7-10 Jan. 1941 The Post Office is unique ^fin being the largest in- sith an investigation of the nature ^r- dividual employer of labor in the country and in posses- By focusing their values on immediate concrete back to the middle of last perience striving to find satisfactions and security out- sing a medical service dating Postal servants below certain salary receive ide the authoritarian hierarchy and avoiding any century free medical service from some 2,600 general practi- marked submission or domination in vocational or without tioners all over the country Accurate sick records are social roles accident people get along serious conflicts with authority The defenses work kept of each employee available to the medical ad- When thwarted deprived or sub- visers these records are classified annually for groups of most of the time workers Here is an immense and invaluable basis for jected to unusual strain such as unemployment or the family these persons following up the effects of many disabilities on working pressure of a mother in the + meahe do something to modify the situation or get away capacities One instance concerning five groups workin the same office is quoted of the effect of lay | from it instead of keeping their anger bottled up inside record ing supervision on sick absenteeism showing how health sectei It significant that these patients have a health and happiness is as infectious as disease far above the average Men over 40 as a group incur 55 per cent more dane conflict When the characteristic defenses fail and unavoidable the accident sickness than those under 40. Younger people incur eee with authority becomes break out in an act more sicknesses but as a rule of shorter duration happens - Aggressiveness may Women incur from 10 to 17 per cent more sickness than 1 which appears to punish the victim or those responsible troubles claim from b his frustration or both Or it may come near men Catarrh and respiratory 20 to 30 per cent of sickness and digestive disorders tzough to the surface to cause the kind of confusion situa- about 10 per cent The sick rates of the outdoor staff . which leaves the person defenseless in the danger tend to be above those of the indoor staff because cer- Unlike tions normally encountered from day to day attempt suicide tain respiratory and rheumatic affections which might depressed persons who consciously con- not disable an indoor worker might prevent a telephone the accident individual usually reports no is interesting however that linesman or postman from carrying on A peace about premeditation cious It hunch that figure for sick absences in males under 25 was te occasionally reports a dream or a This trend five days a year and six days for females of that age something was going to happen today The figures for a general mixed staff were eight or nine is illustrated by the statement made so frequently by 177 : . . nes WMT eig Ce 3 . of SO Pars e s . iv ei . mee. . RISO . arenOri nad i! sg i ABSTRACTS 183 y inges <tve tered urious mech- more is the ,,fl > FOR ALRe mittet Ston sation Tons of of the e dust in mpling ferent Less in into of the dusti of dust s larger j measured volume of air is entrapped by a paper aga timble The weight of dust so caught is ascertained ed then the mass concentration of the total borne The dust is removed from the paper Light been added calculated smaller simble mixed and a known weight of it then taken ir sedimentation test The sedimentometer consists a glass cell through which passes a flat horizontal sam of light which impinges on a photoelectric cell fl Light transmission values are measured a when the el contains clean alcohol b when a weighed quantity sbout 20 mgm of the dust sample has to je alcohol and the particles are still in turbulent mo- ion after stirring and c after the lapse of the calcu- wed time which will allow all particles but those the microns ian 5 below which the cell is dust . ight beam traverses From the photometric readings the proportion by reight of dust below 5 microns estimated allowance ting made for the fineness of division of the whole ! iest as indicated by the specific surface of the | Fence since the mass concentration of the whole dust gravimetric as been ascertained by direct methods ...emass concentration of the dust below 5 micronsia asbestos asbestos and described the discovery of an needle in the cornified layer of tubercles removed from the hands Alden and Howell observed small painful warts or corns in 99 of 167 workers who used amo- site a natural form of asbestos in their work in a navy The workers who have these lesions complain yard and ability to feel a of an original pricking sensation small splinter foreign body Rough attempts to extract this splinter body are usually unsuccessful but with rubbing or with neglect the sensation tends In about ten days a small hard cornlike to disappear often attaining the tumor appears which slowly grows size of a small sp^/tpea Frequently a pinpoint black center which defies extraction can be observed in the excrescence At this period the small cornified tumor is tender to pressure as though a splinter were present and interferes with comfortable work Cornification becomes more pronounced a small hard corn resulting and the area does not become normal in appearance and feeling until the hard center plug is removed by instrumentation These corns usually appear on the tips of the fingers and knuckles most often occurring in the skinned areas of the hands ray examination does not reveal abnormal shadows Biopsy specimens an error which is in can be estimated In the report it is admitted that certain criticisms be levelled at the procedure recommended and may ince only a few samples have been so evaluated no mot statement of the probable error of the method | said that the probable error will be under sgiven it said is quite small mppaerricseonnt with those to which other methods at essent used in Great Britain are liable The procedure ives information about the constituents of the dust from 4 patients revealed no pathologic changes except extreme thickening of the surface epithelium with hyperkeratosis The dermis while fibrous was - sentially normal in appearance and did not present any evidence of inflammation Despite diligent search foreign bodies could not be found in the sections Observations and history of symptoms imply however that a foreign body is at some time present in the lesions There is no relation to asbestosis of the lungs No satisfactory method of prevention can be offered.- in the A. M. in terms particle ] gravi Council's Sipitator the mass in size les not , ich Com- Omen Medical to the ite that that are forward hould it mount of ist below / CARCINOMA H. W. BESTOSIS AND PULMONARY Wedler Deut med Woch vol 69 no 31/32 pp 575 57A6ug. 6 1943 The author has collected the published autopsy words on asbestosis from various countries and finds hat there have been 14 instances of malignant disease the lungs and pleura in 92 mortem examina- ions 16 per cent This in excess of the proportion ^>^ ungcarcinomata in autopsies generally 2-6 per Ent Carcin^ma as a complication of asbestosis curred most frequently in males between 35 and 41 ud was generally in the part of the lung most affected fith asbestosis Development of the lesion slow with the length and intensity of the Set corresponded long in- Dosure 12-42 years There was often a arval between the cessation of exposure and the de- of the cancer which in the author's view Pelopment cancer Zust now be regarded as an occupational A REPORT OF A CASE EPIDEMIC KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS WITH MARKED SYSTEMIC MANIFESTATIONS John J. Curry and Francis C. Lowell New England J. Med vol 231 no 1 pp 11 13July 6 1944 A case is presented that showed many of the signs and symptoms of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis The outstanding feature was the presence of severe depression with only mild ocular disease Serologic studies during convalescence showed the development of antibody against the virus of epidemic keratoconjunctivAiutthiorss summary SURVEY MADE OF HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE FUR INDUSTRY OF NEW YORK Harry Heimann N. F. State Indust Bull vol 23 no 6 pp 217 22J0une 1944 Based on a medical study of 694 workers in industry it is concluded that 1. Traumatic affections of the skin appear the fur charac- Nimation scrons in by the inn Howell H. S. Alden and W. M. THE ASBESTOS CORN 1944 Arch Dermat & Syph vol 49 p 312 May Derwitz in 1930 directed attention to warts and corns j who worked with the hands and feet of persons teristically among the occupational groups of fleshers unhairers stretchers and nailers 2. The cases of dermatosis appear among those workers who handle the dyed furs and are not related rea id ^' ee NeSealr $6 Sar ee ae 3 Pa tae cae ve ~ pS: Beay a Rg aS qe PR eb + s gy he) WE, tee Seu^', irae ^' eee 2 Fs