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FILE NAME State of the Art Literature SAL DATE 1949 Aug DOC SAL047 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article Abstract - Asbestosis and Cancer of the Lung is , N FO-UNDATIONFOUNDATION FOUNDATION i) a. wats, ane i FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOUNDATI FOUNDATION FOUNDATION a : } ing C m a a Foundatios Foundatios ructs a it monthly news letter issued to industrial concerns holding membership In Industrial Hygrane Foundation The Foundation is a profit association of Industries for the advance--ient of healthful working conditions 33 No. rhe 10/2/57 August 1949 Coyle General Motors to Keynote Annual Meeting Conferences to Include one on Air and Stream Pollution No.8 259 M.E. Coyle Executive President of General General Motors Corp. will deliver mote address opening the 14th annual meeting of Industrial Hygiene Foundation on Institute Pittsburgh on November 17. Mr. Coyle will speak on subjects subjects d interest to industrial management as corporate activities and their in- - on the National economy Besides the main meeting for management representatives four professional ences will be held here on November ---- Medical 2 Chemical & Toxico- 1 3 Engineering and 4 Legal These round sessions are being d by the respective professional committees in the Foundation and the agenda ? announced soon ( Atinuation November 18 the day after the main meeting will be devoted to a conthe Air and Water of Industrial Communities with emphasis on air pollule membership voted 3 to 1 in favor of such a conference which in effect will Atinuation of the main meeting The agenda will cover subjects of interest to | nagement and technical representatives The Medical Conference on November 16 the main meeting on November 17 ? air and water conference on November 18 will all be held in the main ium at Mellon Institute ither at the Institute or The other conferences November nearby at sites to be announced 16 will all be Hotel reservations should be made now Both the Hotels Webster Hall and ey near Mellon Institute promise full cooperation as do the downtown hotels > Pittsburgh Convention Bureau More details later F in American Can Company's Annual Report The 47th annual report of the American Can Company a Foundation member ns the following With the assistance of Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America which is i in the Mellon Institute 1 program for employees in Pittsburgh a survey was The of this conducted of the Company's purpose survey was to determine ways where- Company's already comprehensive medical program can be made more effective Editor's Note The Foundation is now engaged in four other such studies dealing with medical administration cost and procedure ) YGIENE FOUNDATION --- November 16 27 18. 4400 FIFTH AVENUE  1 Hygiene Digest - 15 | , y August 1949 ~ L S However great care should be taken to exclude the tuberculous in select- y ing persons to receive aluminum therapy 4 It is not believed that a scientifically controlled experiment in industry is feasible for the evaluation of aluminum for the prophylaxis of silicosis This follows from the uncontrollable variables inherent in the industrial situation and other factors which have been discussed For these reasons it appears improbable that any research agency would consider it advisable to under- take such a project except under special conditions already discussed and which may not be attainable 5 The McIntyre Research Foundation as presently organized is not equipped to solve the aluminum prophylaxis problem in relation to silicosis The steps considered necessary to accom- plish this objective are outlined 6 Research should be continued with laboratory animals with the object of finding a more adequate basis for application to man Such study is now included in the program of the Saranac Laboratory of the Trudeau Foundation -- Authors Summary 56 Effects of Electricity on the Human Body W.B. Kouwenhoven Ind Med 18 269 July 1949 The author discusses briefly the various effects of electricity on the body including variations with the amount of current The current values of interest are 1 threshold of feeling about 1 milliampere 2 let current above which it is difficult to let go of a wire . about 9 milliamperes for men 6 for women 3 current producing ventri- ) (. cular fibrillation 0.1 ampere 4 current producing a block in the ner- * vous system one ampere or more and 5 the counter shock current The last three result in death if prolonged otherwise artificial respiration may have the victim These effects refer to alternating current of com- mercial frequency Direct current is much less harmful The only effect of frequency currents is heating 57 Asbestosis and Cancer of the Lung Editorial J.A.M.A. 140 1219-1220 Aug. 13 1949 Records of English American and German physicians and The Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories in England for 1947 show that the occurrence of cancer of the lung is related to pulmonary asbestosis This relation is supported by the following observations 1 The incidence rate of cancer of the lungs in asbestosis patients is 10 to 15 times as high as among the general population The female ratio is more nearly equal than it is for the general population which indicates that an environmental and evidently occupational carcinogen tended to equalize the incidence rate of cancer of the lungs for both sexes Recent experimental observations support this interpretation of clinical evidence 168 on 7 ) Changes in the Lungs Produced by Natural Graphite H.E. Harding and G.B. Oliver Brit J. Ind Med ^ 91-99 April 1949 A brief description is given of the industrial uses of natural graphite which is a crystalline carbon mixed with up to 10 of free silica and with , other minerals The greatest dust risk occurs in the grinding of natural graphite for which evidence is presented to show that this can leed to