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FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR DATE 1988 DOC CSR184 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Expert Evidence of Anne Scott 188 016 19:23 61 9 321 4840 SLATGORD 6.1.88 SUBSTANCE OF EXPERT EVIDENCE 30 ANNE CAMERON BATT Colombo Street Victoria Librarian Park will give evidence as follows : I hold the following following academic qualifications : Bachelor of Science Diploma of Librarianship Librarianship University of Tasmania 1965 Tasmanian College of Advanced Education 1972 My relevant experience is as follows : 1972-1974 1975-1976 1976-1981 1981-1982 1983-1986 date Tasmanian Library - College of Cataloguer Advanced Education University of Tasmania University of Tasmania Reference Librarian Library Library = ; Cataloguer Biomedical West Australian Institute of Technology Library - Reference Librarian Technology University of Tasmania Library + Biomedical Librarian University of Western Australia Library - Medical Librarian An Australian Australian librarian asked in the period 1955 to advise advise as to sources of information the effects of human exposure to dust containing and on the means means of controlling dust in the from 1943 to available on containing asbestos processes of crushing and and milling ore containing asbestos would have had recourse to the indexes literature available in of medical and engineering the major libraries at the time i INDEXES i t i 4 The principal principal medical indexes available were - a b c Quarterly Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office United States Biological Biological Abstracts Army 1936 88 01/06 19:23 61 9 321 4840 SLATGORD 03 d e Bulletin of Hygiene Industrial Abstract of the Literature of Hygiene The principal engineering indexes available then were - a b Industrial Arts Index Engineering Index Medical indexes | 6 Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus | This with is a series available on a bound volume every six subscription months It was the American Medical Association It indexed issued in parts prepared by articles in medical journals predominantly those in the English language and with a United States medical journals world The bias It articles were indexed major were indexed under the name of the author and headings such as pneumoconiosis under appropriate | subject { 4 ! Catalogue of the Library of the Office This is United States a publication Army 1936 in book form of Surgeon the Surgeon Library's General's Library's catalogue for the period 1919-1936 It lists both books and journal articles under author and subject headings indexes both English and foreign language publications The Library eventually became the National Library of Medicine ) It Biological Abstracts This is a United States serial published by the Union of American Biological Societies and started in 1926 It was issued at frequent regular intervals and bound in annual later more volumes It abstracts and indexes an ual articles in | | 88 01/06 19:24 61 9 321 4840 SLATGORD 1 the biological and medical field It has a coverage of literature in different languages very broad languages world 10 Bulletin of Hygiene This was produced Diseases London by the Bureau of Hygiene and started in 1926. The and Tropical bulletin was issued monthly It covered both English and foreign was language articles A substantial extract each article so that the content of foreign provided language articles was readily available for | Abstract of the Literature of Industrial Hygiene This was produced as a Industrial Hygiene and regular supplement to the Journal Toxicology The Journal was of published from 1919 to 1949 by the Harvard University School of Public Health It changed its name to Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine from 1950 It later still became the American Medical Association's Archives of Industrial health The Abstract abstracted articles subjects in both English and in other journals foreign languages on relevant Engineering Engineering Indexes 11 Industrial Arts Index This was produced in New York by a private publisher H W Wilson & Co. It was issued monthly with annual bound volumes starting in 1913. It indexed articles in major English language journals dealing with subjects relevant to industry science and technology It later became Applied Science and Technology Index 12 Engineering Index This was produced in New York and started in 1906. produced by Engineering Index Inc. It indexes engineering journals in English and foreign languages and covers 188188 01/06 19:25 T 61 9 321 4840 SLATGORD 4 05 ~4- mechanical engineering mining and metallurgy 13 In the following following indexes in which appendices are marked literature are copies references of extracts to relevant from the 140 Appendix Appendix 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus Catalogue of the Library of the General's United States Army 1936 Biological Abstracts Bulletin of Hygiene Abstract of the Literature of Industrial Hygiene Industrial Arts Index Engineering Index The extracts are by no means not endeavoured to cover all index Most Most of the extracts decade 1945-1955 comprehensive inin that I have relevant literature literature in each I have made relate relate to the 15 I have been provided with what has been described to me as the plaintiffs bibliography in these actions . By way of example I have written against the marked entries entries in Appendices 1 and 2 the numbers \ plaintiffs bibliography the entries have have in the OTHER SOURCES 16. Apart from recourse to indexes the encyclopaedias and dictionaries librarian would consult 88 01/06 19:25 19:25 61 9 321 4840 SLATGORD SLATGORD 06 17 The principal medical encyclopaedia in use in Australia in the relevant period was The British Encyclopaedia Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice An extract from the second edition volume ten issued in 1950 and reprinted in 1955 1955 is attached as Appendix 8 Availability of journals 18 In order to determine in what libraries the journals journals and texts identified in the indexes were held the the librarian would have contacted major libraries or would have consulted publications listing libraries There was a number the holdings of subscribing of such catalogues catalogues in use regular prior to and during the relevant period as the Catalogue Catalogue of Serials in Australian Libraries Libraries such compiled by R Pitt published in 1930 19 Specifically I have been asked to advise on the availability in Australia during the period 1943-1955 of the following : British Medical Journal Volumes prior to 1950 Lancet Volumes prior Volumes in 1934 to 1950 especially especially Volumes American Journal of Cancer Volumes , 25 and 26 Journal of American Medical Association Association British Journal of Radiology Danish Medical Bulletin Volume 3 1956 Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Wochenschrift Vol 65 Journal of Industrial Hygiene & Volume 20 1938 Toxicology Tubercle Heating & Ventilating Magazine Scientific American Safety Engineering '88 01/06 19:26 19:26 61 9 321 4840 SLATGORD 07 -6 13 14 The first books Heuper W Diseases C Occupational 1942 Tumours and Allied Legges Industrial Maladies 12 items are journals and the last two are text 20 21 I have consulted consultead publication entitled Scientific Serials in Australian Australian Libraries This is a union catalogue to which the libraries listed in it have contributed information information The catalogue is compiled by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation It is a looseleaf service The edition I edition which which had been updated to used was the second 1979. Coples of pages from the catalogue catalogue containing most of the relevant information information comprise Appendix 9 | Appendix 10 10 identifies the libraries in which the relevant journals were were held I have excluded from the list libraries in Appendix 10 major libraries listed in of the catalogue as having relevant series if the library did not exist before 1955. The dates shown in Appendix 10 against some of the libraries indicate the date of establishment of the library library That information Directory of Special Libraries has been obtained from the in Australia 5th Ed 1982 or by telephoning telephoning indicates that the the library library itself A single had volumes in the asterisk series issued prior to 1955. 1955. A double asterisk indicates that the library had had any specific volumes in the series listed in paragraph 19 above As yet I have not been able to confirm when each library acquired the relevant volumes 22 In addition addition to library holdings journals were available for private subscription subscription Members of the British Medical Association in Australia 188 01/06 19:27 61 9 321 4840 -7- SLATGORD | | received the British Medical Journal as part of their membership In 1935 and 1940 there were approximately 5,500 registered doctors listed in the Medical Directory of Australia and by 1948 there approximately 8,000 In each of those years the of those listed indicated membership of the majority British Medical Association Conclusion 23 Information on asbestosis and the dangers exposure to dust in industry was available in the scientific literature before 1955. available in A significant part of Australia in academic this literature state hospital was and company libraries