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Direct Dial: 804.420.6461 lbrugh@williamsmullen.com WILLIAMS MULLEN June 6, 2011 VIA U.S. Mail and Email Nathan D. Finch, Esquire Motley Rice, LLC 1000 Potomac Street, Suite 150 Washington, D.C. 20007 Re: Honeywell Supplemental Discovery Responses Nate: This letter supplements Honeywell's Responses to Plaintiffs Second Request for Admissions, Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents. As we discussed by phone this past Friday, on the three issues raised by plaintiffs counsel from Honeywell's prior responses, we have come to an agreement and answered two of them but can not resolve the third and remaining issue and will need to have a hearing on it. Those three issues were: 1. Document Request No. 3 - attached to this letter are genuine and authentic copies of what appears to be a draft letter from E.A. Martin to Noel Hendry dated September 12, 1966 that was found in a file of The Bendix Corporation as well as the other documents included in that file. Honeywell reserves the right to object to the admissibility at trial of these documents or any other documents produced during discovery. 2. Interrogatory No. 29 - you modified this interrogatory by asking for any workers compensation claims from individuals alleging mesothelioma prior to 1980. Honeywell continues to object to this interrogatory as stated in its original responses but, without waiving the objections, Honeywell responds that there were none. 3. Document Request No. 2 - you modified this request by asking for copies of all material safety data sheets for asbestos containing brakes manufactured or sold by Honeywell or Bendix from 1965 to current. Honeywell continues to object to this request as stated in its original responses. A Professional Corporation North Carolina Virginia Washington, D.C. London 200 South lO* Street, Suite 1600 (23219) P.O.Box 1320 Richmond, VA 23218-1320 Teh 804,420.6000 Fax: S04.420.6507 www.williamsmullen.com WILLIAMS MULLEN June 6, 2011 Page 2 This should cover ail the issues raised by plaintiffs counsel, however, let me know if you have any questions or this does not accurately reflect our conversations. cc: Gary W. Kendall (by email) 15206457_1.DOC Enclosures September 12, 1966 Mr. Noel Hendry Canadian Johns Manville Co. Asbestos, Quebec Canada Ltd. Dear Noel Just to be sure you have a copy, an article that appeared in Chemical Week magazine is inclosed. So that you'll know that Asbestos is not the only contaminate^, a second article from O.P. & D Reporter assess a share of the blame on trees. My answer to the problem is: if you have enjoyed a good life while working with asbestos products why not die from it. There1 got to be some cause. EAM :MAC EMC: Director Of Purchases E. A. Martin Taking Giant Steps Two chemical process companies look giant steps toward diversifying into the oceanography field last week, and tw^&paper companies with com bined saIe>of_ nearly $1 billion/year reached a\tSjtative agreement to merge. 'V (1) Bendix%Corp. (Detroit), ex panded its ocearfic activities bv ac quiring for an undnlosed amount of stock Marine Advisurs (La jlla, Calif.), producer of oceW>graphi<|in- struments for petroleum^nd utffity companies, state and federal tsgencils, and firms engaged in scientimS^prar grams. (2) Fluor Corp. (Los Angeles) and B. L. McFarland and Associates (Fort Worth and Midland, Tex.), a group of five companies involved in offshore and onshore drilling opera tions, have agreed to merge, subject to stockholders' approval. The Mc Farland group operates five offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. (3) A tentative agreement to merge - has been reached by U.S. Plywood Corp. (New York) and Champion Papers, Inc. (Hamilton, O.). It is sub ject to both directors' and stockhold ers' approval. The corporate identities of both companies will be preserved. Reducing Gas Rates The Federal Power Commission has ordered El Paso Natural Gas Co. and Transwestern Pipeline Co. to reduce by $17 million/year the price of na tural gas in the southern California market. The rate cut stems from the July 26 decision in which FPC turned down the application of Gulf Pacific Pipeline Co. (a Tenneco subsidiary) to supply gas to the Los Angeles area (CIV, Aug. 6, p. 20). Gulf Pacific last week filed for a rehearing. El Paso and Transwestern were told they would have to lower their rates to reflect the lower costs result ing from the bigger deliveries pos sible in the expanded system. At the same time, FPC said it would conduct further proceedings to decide if cus tomers should get additional benefits resulting from more liberal deprecia tion allowances. FPC has given the companies 45 days to show cause why the reduction should not take place. Soaarces airborne asbestos Asbestos-lined ducts used in centrally air-conditioned buildings. Asbestos ducts and insulation in home central-heating plants. Motor vehicle brake linings and clutch plates. Auto undercoatings. Asbestos ceiling and floor tiles. < Asbestos shingles and sidings. Construction and demolition . Fitting, cutting, and removing asbestos-filled wallboards and floorings, piping and insulation. Incineration of asbestos-filled scrap. Improperly filtered effluent from asbestos processing plants. Asbestos* Awaiting Trial5 The asbestos industry--whose end products arc valued at more than $500 million/year--may he in for a shakeup. It could come in the form of federal legislation limiting the use of asbestos, because asbestos has been ac cused--though not yet "convicted"-- ns a significant health hazard. Prob able contender for asbestos markets: plastics. Recent studies have convinced U.S. Public Health Service specialists and other medical authorities that about 40% of all Americans have mild, chronic cases of asbestosis, even though most of them never worked directly with asbestos. Unlike other airborne dust particles, asbestos fibers have the ability--al most as much as activated carbon-- to absorb polycyclic hydrocarbons and arsenicals. Furthermore, says USPHS, in the past 30 years the as bestos-related cancer rate has in creased sixfold. The Inferences: While the average asbestos worker is well protected, the man on the street is not. The 3x1micron asbestos fibers in his lungs can come from a variety of sources (table, above). And medical experts say there's no way to assess hydrocarbon content in those lung deposits. American Cancer Society research ers fee) certain there is a synergistic relationship among airborne asbestos, smoking and lung cancer. They reason that the nondegradable, hydrocarbonsoaked fibers may well be a constant source of lung irritation. PHS officials think it may take them up to five years to establish asbestos' true role as an air pollutant. However, Congress may act before the research is finished. Says Repre sentative Robert Watkins (R.s Pa.): "We've seen enough evidence al ready. Asbestos will never get a clean bill of health. With just a little more data we'il move for controls and strict ones." Some form of asbestos control is in the offing, public health officials are certain, if only part of a larger clean-ambient-air program. However, there is the danger that Congress may enact rigorous controls on the quanti ty of asbestos that could be used. In that case both Canada and U.S. asbestos products manufacturers would be hard hit. Of the five forms of asbestos mined today, chrysotiie asbestos holds the predominant mar ket position because of its insulat ing and processing qualities. Canada produces more than 80% of the chry- sotile asbestos used in the U.S. In both countries, a number of serious dislocations would occur. . At present, there is no known ma terial that could fill all of asbestos' strategic roles. On the other hand, should federal controls merely call for higher standards for binders and shicldings, that would spark a rise of new products, with plastics taking the lead. Reason, say industry spokesmen, present polymer technology could easily turn up products to replace as bestos in most end-uses. 32 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10. 1966 omnjwmn JohiYS -Maiwille Asteslos LIMITED ASBE5TOS FIBRE DIVISION P.O. BOX 1500 - ASBESTOS, QUEBEC - TELEPHONE: 879-5431 September 29th, 1966 Mr, E, A, Martin, Director of Purchases, The Bendix Corporation, Marshall Eclipse Division, TROY, New York 12181. Dear Ernie: . Thank you for the article on Asbestos from Chemical Week; yours was the 101st copy I received. However, I had not seen the one on "Trees" and this latter calmed my nerves. I suppose we have to bear with people who have nothing better to do than create alarm, but we are not alarmed and we live and sleep with the stuff. You will be interested to know that Chemical Week will print a retraction of the article and the U.S. Public Health Service is mad because they have been misquoted. Representative Robert Watkins claims he needs the votes and asbestos was a handly vehicle. Anyway good health and best wishes. . Yours sincerely. NWH/bh General Sales Manager '"'."'I LETTERS Asbestos Safety To the Editor: The article titled "Asbestos: Awaiting 'Trial'" (CW, Sept. 10, p. 32) contains many inac curacies. which have led to erroneous assumptions and false conclusions. Briefly, the facts are these: (1) Asbestos is a uniquely useful product serving the needs of modern man and society, and it is not likely to be replaced by economically feasible synthetic polymers, or anything else, in the foreseeable future. (2) No published reports, even the most speculative, support the general ized statements in your article regard ing health effects of possible exposure to asbestos. (3) There is no basis for the sugges tion that Congress "may act" regard ing asbestos use, for no such proposals arc being considered by Congress, We are informed that the congressman quoted as predicting action disclaims any knowledge of health evidence relating to asbestos or of proposals to coutrol its use. (4) No evidence exists to show that asbestos poses health risks for the gen eral public or to show that even 1% of Americans have "mild chronic asbestosis," much less the 40% figure you give in your article. (5) Regarding your list of "sources of airborne asbestos," there are no data to support the contention in your article that the "man on the street" is exposed to asbestos from these sources, or indeed that these sources contribute asbestos to the ambient air. (6) We know of no data to support your claim of a sixfold increase in socalled "asbestos-related cancer." As you doubtless realize, the proper conduct of our business requires us to keep abreast of scientific developments regarding asbestos, both medical and technical. Is is our opinion that syn thetic polymers are not likely in the CW welcomes expressions of opinion from readers. The only requirements: that they be per tinent, as brief as possible. Address all correspondence to: H. C. E. Johnson, Chemical Week, 330 West 42nd St., New York, N.Y. 10036. foreseeable future to completely re place asbestos in the many applications for which it is now used. Any syn thetics would have to prove superior to natural asbestos and be economical ly competitive. , As to health aspects, in June of this year the TJ.S. Surgeon General ap peared before the Senate Public Works Subcommittee on Air and Water Pol lution, with Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine as chairman, to discuss var ious problems relating to air-pollution abatement. Surgeon General William Stewart enumerated a number of sub stances in common use, including plastics and asbestos, about which he said: "The public health hazards that may arise from these aspects of en vironmental contamination have not been adequately documented. In each instance further investigation is needed to determine whether health is indeed threatened and what control measures may be necessary." In these days when ail substances in our air and water and even the food we eat are constantly under scrutiny, as to their effects on the pub lic, the fact that asbestos is among the subjects of investigation is not surpris ing. In fact, we have always supported and will continue to support investiga tions by the U.S. Public Health Service and other research scientists. Roger Hackney Vice-President Jobns-Manville Corp. New York To the Editor: In reference to your article, "Asbestos: Awaiting `Trial'" {Sept. 10, p. 32), we know of no scientific evidence supporting the statement that "40% of all Amer icans have mild, chronic cases of asbestosis." Even in the asbestos industry, where more is known about exposure levels than among the general population, there is imprecise knowledge about the health effects of exposure to as bestos. ' With the cooperation of labor and industry, the Division of Occupational Health has under way a long-range, in-depth study to answer this question, as well as to develop better criteria for the safe handling and manufacture of asbestos. In the meantime, however, the division wili continue to promote the application of known control methods so that the workplace can be kept as healthy as possible. Murray C. Brown, M.D. Chief Division of Occupational Health Department of Health, Education & Welfare Public Health Service Washington, D.C. CW is pleased to set the record straight. Some of those interviewed apparently drew unwarranted conclu sions from insufficient and dubious data.--Ed. MEETINGS Assn, of Official Analytical Chemists, annual meeting, Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10-13. i Tcchnicon international symposium on automation in analytical chemistry, Statler-Hilton Hotel, NevJ York, Oct. 17-19. Drug, Chemical & Ia.)lied Trades Assn., annual meeting, Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, Fla., Oft. 20-22. Commercial Chemical . Development Assn., discussion c f packaging, Drake Hotel, Chicago, Oc . 26-28, National Assn., rf Purchasing Agents, Chemical Group, annual fall conference, Continental Plaza {Hotel, Chicago, Oct. 27. Society of Engin jcring Science, fourth technical meeting. North Carolina State University, Raleigh Oct. 31-Nov. 2. American Society for Metals, national metal congress anq exposition. McCor-.mick Place, Chicagb, Oct. 31-Nov. 3. Parental Drug Assn., annual conven tion, Statler-Hiltonl Hotel, New York, Nov. 1-4. I Fertilizer industry round-table con ference, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2-4. The Society of thp Plastics Industry, 11th plastics film, sheeting and .coated fabrics conference, Waldorf-Astoria Ho tel, New York, Nov. j9-19; conference on cellular plastics in transportation, Edgewater Beach Hotel, (phicago, Nov. 15-17. The Franklin Institute Research Labt oratories, fourth annual symposium on the organic-solid state, Philadelphia, Nov. 14. , General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corp., and, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, fundamentals of gas- surface interactions, 'San Diego, Calif- Dec. 14-16. \ October 8, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 7 m 2 Doctors Report /iM* p Asbestos Suspected As Cause of Cancer By ALTON BLAKESLEE New York 'tfi -- Medical specialists pointed a strong finger of suspicion today at asbestos as a cause not only of lung can cer, but also or another extremely rare form of fatal human cancer. ' This cancer, known as meso Tiny, hard particles of as thelioma, involves the lining of bestos can lodge in the lungs the abdominal and chest cavi during mining, processing and ties. application of asbestos-contain Much of their evidence comes from autopsy studies of men working with asbestos as an) ing materials, or possibly from dust raised through normal wear, they said. insulation material. Marked Increase But' they said it also is pos sible .that dust from products containing asbestos might be exposing people generally to some risk of cancers. How much risk there might be, they said they could not tell. "We had previously found that lung cancer and possibly gas trointestinal cancer were mark edly increased in incidence among asbestos insulation work ers," they said. ..... ---------- .. . Asbestos is used not only for insulation but as a flooring material, in automobile brake shoes, and in many other ap plications. Ordinary wear-and- tcar, they said, might release dust into the atmosphere. 3 Present Report The report was presented to the American Public Health Association by Drs. Irving J. Selikoff and Jacob Churg of the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and E. Cuyler Ham mond, S.C.D., director of statis tical research for the Ameri can Cancer Society. Dr. Ham mond is known for his studies of cigaret smoking in relation-' ship to lung cancer. Asbestos is a mineral, mag nesium silicate, and about 3`A million tons of it are used world wide each year, they said. In 1935. worldwide useage amount ed to about 500 tons, the re searchers said. -: "I ft ,.-i. ...... .L-A'd.-.'ive artier, . red v.r.Li; iv'r. 15 so -a-. viV.s important matter can i-.'.ot. .in.'C-vi r.Xu explored. It it: my hope ir.r.t rhe .lcb.y wii] produce agreement between nil parties Working- urt li.is problem.'' ' ornor or V.is r^prasiiit-itiw. I vemuer: Kocky won't lie muicti- Tiie demons;:ration lasted about i;ig on." w - u. 7 'J A' 70 - | Lucky Appoints Panel IAickc-i.V.;ar appointed a special panei to hold public hearings and If you work with asbestos, you have a more than 50% - rceor.merd le.-taTm-lon to protect chance of Lying of cancer and one chance in .five of dying" `the public from disruptive illegal , of lung- cancer, Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, head of the Mount f: [ 1 strikes by public employes. Lindsay r.a_ also had. a panel working on the problem. i Sinai Hospital Division 1 ported yesterday. of Environmental Medicine, re- Lire bv.vb penalty provisions Asbestos may he a danger to that some asbestos fibers may be- the public also, he said, since present in the lungs of at least I Ultima recently when the New auto brake linings may give off one fourth of the urban popula * York City subway and bus werk- asbestos shreds and some foreign tion of the IT, S. . ers threatened another strike oh cigavets use asbestos in their Exceeds "'Expected" Rate 11 the transit system unless they filters. Many Worta "War II gas Mount Sinai scientists found ._ yet nnv raises won during their. masks also had them in their among asbestos insulation work :^ . .?^uWV walkout. - - ; filters. ers recently six to seven times ... V.h ! A Supreme Court judge ruled Set Up a Laboratory the "expected" rate of lung ' * ' the law prohi'.i.cd 'payment of Mount Sinai announced forma cancer and 'dirice the normal . .. _ . ' the iwi.'iC., Y- -ree years. The tion of an environmental health rate of oanc-ei' of the stomach, u.'"V-v or Ui| i'egisiatui-e y,~- . b a 11111, which laboratory which will try to as colon and rectum. "' :`Bnteci j the Governor signed into law, ;::> .mittca r.a eon- erupting the transit workers from piot. this section of the Condon-Wadlin .r.o pleaded in Law. .. ch insanity. mr.tcer.L. The .islature is not expected to resolve the situaiiav. until late sess the danger to the general population, as well as in indus trial occupations. Earlier research there linked asbestos exposure to several varieties of cancer, and a state The U. S. Public Hc&ith Serv ice, which is studying I2,0ai3 asbestos worker.- in five states, made a $22-1.000 grant to tha Mount Sinai project, and tha New York City Health Research hr Lie cession, probably during ment from the hospital rioted Council gave $90,000. . w Happy J. ?.> Diver _wiv- be- i : ."Pc: zcj pPcvsp,' a ! Pt'.sk-PiOuP w'affic ; ! t:-i l::z 2o;.:r.ic::on work a: um We at 'ay v.'LM.Vil n/.y rmYf.& first Lor.r.Mly r.d vra.-> vr-wr. D C.J 7/'' H Xc ~ D1* 0Tl<: . iie v..o coria:* ho .ght to h- giver. a -siv-.f ai.- co'..r:r.:;- lj r.l.oL.-i ... .-y t;.;- p..V-r....... b..; __ tun r.a.iion-u-Aioi ar..v;.-.-/ cr.!cr'..i:uo i-do M-raar.fu-ola brother. Prince Aya, with toy at Tokyo's Togu -`..... YoL-.-.^atUis' purr.r.a, Cru\.-n Prh'.cu A,ki hito and Princess Mic'.iiko, look on approvingiy. r '~fluL- Asbestos Su TUtJ^U~~m 7oJcIJ^?~QCT By ALTON BLAKESLEE Asbestos is used not only ior York, and E. Cuyler Hammond, tion. of asbestos-containing ma AP Science Writer insulation but as a flooring ma Sc.D,, director of statistical terials, .or possibly from dust NEW YORK (API -- Medical terial, in automobile brake shoes,- and in many other appli research for the American Can cer Society. Dr. Hammond is raised through they. said. normal wear, (specialists pointed a strong finger of suspicion today at asbestos as a cause not only of lung cancer but also of another extremely rare form of fatal human cancer. This cancer, known as meso thelioma, involves the lining of the abdominal and chest cavi ties. Much of the specialists' evi cations. Ordinary wear and tear, they said, might release dust into the atmosphere. The report was presented to the American Public Health Association . by Drs. Irving J. Selikoff and Jacob Churg of the Mount Sinai . Hospital, New known for his studies of cigar ette smoking in relationship to lung cancer. ` Asbestos is a mineral, mag nesium silicate, and about million tons of it axe used worldwide each year, they said. In 1935, Worldwide usage amounted to about 500 tons, the researchers said. - Tiny, hard particles of asbes "We had previously found that lung cancer and possibly gastrointestinal cancer were markedly increased in incidence among asbestos insulation workers," they said. Now they also find a marked ly high increase among such workers of mesothelioma, a cancer so rare it is not classed separately as a cause of death dence comes from autopsy stud ies of men working with asbes tos can lodge in the lungs during in tlie international classifica mining, processing and applica tion of diseases. tos as an insulation material. They said it also is passible that dust from products contain ing asbestos might subject people generally to some risk of cancel's. How much risk there might be, they said, they could j not tell. / i ) fftO/CAl PfP&tr CANADIAN JOHNS-MANVILLE CO..LIMITED Per Release Moron}7', May 30th, iG4?. ASBESTOS. QUEBEC kSTZSTQSi ^ue.r-ac .May 3-i . - _ ~t,berov.Ios is is NOT the leading cause, of death .in...the .asbestos .dicing areas, according to Br. Paul Parrel,. cb.-cgr .;her cf tils Ministry of V-alth for the Frc-vince of yj.eb.ee. , ., _ ,. . , . Dr.-Parrot emphasized that the mortality tree, tuberculosis i r: " .ctferd Mines and Asbestos is-'no heav'. or thar. i:: any city. . In respor.s-r 4 o. a re freer. W, F. Scuter. Assistant to the-Mine Manager of f ur.advir. Johns-Mapvilla, Dr. InrroT discussed ir detail tuber e.uJ cs: s cor: Jo tiers in the Prcvin.cn. .'Mr., Sou oar .had r : ruo-o; cd this irf arn.fi ti cn of Dr. Parrot in ui effort- to .clarify -'er., :.r r isun.r tr? Landises chat ft 1 lowed charges leveled, at -tht re: vet-oc industry darinr but prolonged strike. ,-'Dr. r-rrs letter uas ''cc.-ri'"tnitd bv a table shoving the n Tiber of da'ihr duo tt v.it.!.0"S'~cer'" \s tr. '~p;ooec urban centres. In 1?../?, t:;-* let-st i.:jur.s v - ' i c-le, inure. a , r - deaths from tuber culosis in Asb. si-os, F_t th. `am. year, th-rr- ver: lz deaths from j :..-r ariosi ; iV: ilryxieid; _v.; rc.11 asis dei the ir. f4 . Hyucinthe ; 1 ii. Jcr-uui ,-r u end 19 li: '..`fore Mir... r. . The complete text - r Dr. Parrot's lett.. r* appears, or. tho >: r ! |( \ ! ! . (. THE LAlir.EU AMU '1 M i 1' I. i \ I H 1 W O H 1 l> a 1 a i 1U fit u 5, 0 V E B F t ..^riSTEF-E D 4 SWOT . Hotel tru C-ovryernement . pivisigq,.De la Demographya Quebec .. ^ . "% ."'j * * of JilSAtTH Parliament,Buildings Division of Demography QUEBEC, May, 24th,*1949*x Mr, .W Hr Soufcayf * ` - Aas't to Mina i&np.ger, : Canadian Johns-Manvillfe Co., ASBESTOS, P, Q, Limited, " ' : ; Bear Si'; -a At your request, I have taken .cognizance various articles .in Baffle newspapers and. dealing withytjjsg question of-the- -' .. . - - . . ' vj ' " . .-i ' ;' nrytMty Trom tuberculosis in the .asbesto'a mining district, ^ It is my pleasure, and duty I believe, tb'give my;:opiniop; and relative o arman u? on the matter. However,, '.and in the very first I wish to emphasize the stand I desire'* to hold I that I shall ~ " C'.omier.ts to the statistical aspect of the. problem only/ In the acccm .rnyinr' table, which will fie of great asistarice in the few 1:wing study, I have compiled the crude totals of deaths from tuberculosis with those from cancer, violence (all kinds of accidents) and-heart diseases.' This first comparison is intended to demonstrate that tuberculosis is WOT the leading cause of death -in the mining cities, nor ir. any other. Same table then compares the, same totals (and please noCico thrii wo ere hero `dealing with totals not rates' * ./ the litter being mostly the time misleading for the general public) in Thetford-Minas, and Asbestos with .those in'six _ ~L'.ur cities where- the social and-.occupational levels are about i-'enticnl. This '''urban1' comcnrisorr is intended no show that the . . - i" '1- . f. r r?-'T-..la `.snot heavier in Thatford-Mines or Aatistcs than in any city.- finally, same table -stnblishes a, third- comparison over a period of five years (1943 to 1947,latest, avail able figures), r-s zc prove that :-f there exists a variation,, the ORE ij.iv aderlying-Bipnifipanee. ' r;V7rt->."- ... ', 4'vy 4.- ;;? " / . :.'> 'i ' ' ;* .<*- .bh,S e ^. thattthe.tpyXLfcatfon cif this-'rnta via niGda on Hay 14th, anti' - ... ; ,'.-'4., , f 4 *' . . ' - & `"^^'4'^' v '<$* *r'yoifd^r;Vhy the; rate Pf 1944 'has beanrusnd and not that of ,1945 or - 5/4^-,r.4,-4.4.'/. * '*: ^. " _ %/'4 '.l$4oi tj^th-abfwhich vailat 1 e ? In 1444 , the(2 rmattee ooff 223,6-1 for %'v*$y : a**.-, '-^4,-/-44 ^ ; '^h&tfoyd^^tieh^Bie'xdot-as-already explained, but the -rate of"1945 ivJfa .4. -ry:. j :*.* and t,.v. ` 19Z6j1J37-. 1, both.-mtos being evidently much' : - . .. . * '' '. r'l'44;; ;1^45'^3;HqW .does it pome that this rate'regia tars such a sharp decline `; - sf .* _ *' fJ4;4, a -*;-,!?>*r - -- :i-n."p^^-'BlnglQ^yGar5 .The explona lion, -is; that, inclusive of and orior * * * -'< *^1. * ^\c-y'PST`:' s* - > /' . *,'* '* `' * i ,'h K, \ 1:` ;.4o -1944 WQ wore ( in Caned- a,a r v/hol i tabulating all deaths by atV-t't'* ; :plhcp^pfy^.Gdurrencej while, with 1945 and slnc--;?'we are now compiling 4.*' , - <5t . ' . - ' 1;' >.,... ' ' , ".- . .. .a'.-' ;" `'` by plate's:'of . rppldbhc-'.. .The latter msthod is internationally accepted fi'v t.% * *.(# r-:as4a:'. tr*u' e ^`^pibi'.U- .r5,.."pf'*' any. d' emo* gram`phi^c situa' tion. The place . of. dea1 th f , . doss not matteh ch - ncvrad ay s fhat-a -person can go hundreds of nil^p .if >. ifit-' .-.-r ; V : -7 u-`: ' 'away from home .for treatment, but the residence .of the deceased is \,y> - more logical %s a basd-s for analysis. As a ,`cnsequence nf this, the rate, of 236.1-for Thet ford -Kino s in 1944 thus includes a certain nurabe: 11" ,0 & .. *sl * -S**. * ". v!- VS-.'*' tSVy V. .-S . *V ^ .*. y ' ' -1 -. -` . . v** i'" ^ ,,* *\V -0 i.-: .-'V i ' "V* '"'In' ' V, .,, VOwt *' ':#!*;'i-'!,?' ' O' ' 3- '.' '^.fc5^i^(^3^i!3pcpr^^'in that city of'.pacofe :'who. ware rprt Residents ./'.T. ,ir-xU-'-,'fS=j!L.. .^.... - 217 ti' iG -1945 dees considaripAly c1 aaths .piece of their death. whan * explanation-should -havd been' prq- . -v- /\r`- '/" ' - 'yfi<a,t. ^ . .. . ., j. c*' '--vided.^lii'd aa^hl^^sq'hUge- this., jpta.- hog bean compared with thoga of pj, .. .' -.W '. ` l -. 1 .. * . " ' v.i''^46Vf.v: _,'Gran^.and'',or.G^;4^'V^iQh-'bl^Lp^ 'do 'institution, for .tha- ttrrenatment'' of ' . s t&Saf'i>* y.tw'v'v*v ,v.r ' ''V rS v ' 'Vy -- ' ' v" * '? &?K.?^iy-v-r"''^tul59rcuiosis' ig^ioeeted. . ijy belief..'is? that,. the corappaatriissoohh. was -dishonest'. iCV I; - -h- - -An ,a* rule, rates are a, fait. way;'of study ' '-!t?i'j.Wff-.'/r*-' : ;'Wt V " if dei^Yeci' froni' h;.g'hand^totnl. For instance, when we say bhet the - : -V? ' ': / - - - .;; r - . - ; , for the province, was iil-1946-*f 72-, 1 per 100.,O0O. .'- ' I'a-rf: j . . ' ' f- ''.vpnpuibr'tihh^vthis-' i's _.'aasily, tinderst-.edf -,70rir.'the' other hnfrd-j .if tp'ch '** X^- * '' 1 " v .' r :~ sfiiite^i'S e^a&Xirshed for a small population, it has alwsfys .tl'be' ' . , >.>- ,' l. - - . c ' 'bb^d'-in'iiiinr1 iha.t' bo m.?.ny factors are beinr involved that the ;rates " . . .. ' k 'f . " ." . .. ' : '....yt'''"' ` ,r **',/?.?> ' '. " ,. -- '-Jr I ^ - -. '. . "" r- -Idsp .lls>r|ignifi dance, 'It is ,-muchV beft'lr.i.io .work with tha . crude totala > ''3 -. ''. ,-l;e. .of deaths, t/hich- everyone understand, and this explains why the enclosed "tabXl^kaf..:babn built tip-with those nur.bsfe -only. ^'joansider a few of thss^-.'aatpnbei's and,' to hbbrsviato, T#;thlp- see tha4. it: ?h-. tf ^rdff-Minos there wars 29 j.." ' ',!' .-d^th^fpdif^b^^Ipsis, .23 frois c:-.r.c ;r, i, from violence fall kinds -of ''Lc'ciilents } *'hlfd''!'32?-fr;yii heyrt dise.sesr In that cityjJ' tuberculosis thus ' -`f'-f. I'- 'borseh! in' tht second place, not- very far -ahead of cancer,- whi^ heart ' jy-" " '. ;r>yr' .' . rk. **-'- ._ / ' ' . .-....filgdhpes' Ql/oimp'd'Sniy thfeo .mort" victims. ' But when we consider--the ' s' " ` -; -nVjr; .3 r . . .. i . ae:c 'dfstSfbutiehV;'we -find that Th^re v.-rd 16 men and 13 women, (looking ' . to 1946 there'were, only 22 deaths : 7 men and 15 women) ? can we c'-n. - clftri * frr'lij--'this that tuberculosis is the'first cause of death ap.''-ngst .' ... .-tha'miners?.' 'J ml'-, . vt1"^- .-.. ' .) " - - / =r a& ' .. 4 `What.'is she- ^itun^i'orr in th.- ~ther urban ccnt.res? ' Asbestos { 5 deaths fr^m T.B. -..gninrt 4 concur, 4 accidents . ' eric 13 heart die roses. ' VaI3 oyfl^ld i 1^ T.B.j l"4 cancer, 6 accidents, 34 heart'. / St.Kynbi.n*ti`&t ' 1* ? * ...37 > cancer, 7 icc.id.mts,. 63 heart,. s- Jcnquiar*. 32'Tv3-, > 9 c&nc-.r, 13 accidents, 14 heart, etc. . After all, c-mpr.nng the n \rt-lity -f th'Ss cities f.:r tubareulbsis only, Jpr.^uierj registers 32 deaths, Chicoutimi : 24j St.Hyecintho arid Valleyfield. i 13 -r'ch against the 29 in Thetf-rd- `Mnes and the 5 in AsTaest-s. is there such ~n extra rdincry prevnltance *',f tunerculori;- in th. Asia sf* s Mining district? I chink that s-une "ther cities r. gist -r as many, if n't i-r.: o .aths Tram tuberculosis and th : c-ncXusi- m c-n j's t- the mi nd ; Why sharia 'nly the- situation ' -f r;*-**r. 3.j'tf".rd-*Min.::: b " rnfcl ie: "? -As state:;d in the bcgir.nin I have cmfin.d the nb aa. crjn.jnt' ta the statistic-'.1 dut a '-nly, with th ? haps thee this r.ay b- 'f assist.-me t- all., Statist--[c.s nr a very inn^r a .nt but nh--:r value is d- riv :d from n'-bj . rtive'1' which nc has .n mind. j truly, oh .r, (h aU , >IS. . --L-. , . <*>*. V. -r & . Jt* ( % ~ ' -.'-/Vi .Az-fi't`''>.".. ' r.`^^v,--->^ir - - 'v .,4*_ * . - '*' '/v.*V% *' ^ . ; ;,>6*. ,, : :- . a'?' - - . -I r,''--- '- - ,,. ' ` "-sAffl*. . *. : - PRFPARFB,Er;?Al|L FAKFCT, M.D, ' _ ^V * . '. v-; f of He&lth, ParHarcejit Buil4iggSj:TQuebec,' *a. - , * * <., - "' " .TOTAL B?ATHS;fRQM J1IBFRCUXO0 JS j and/other comparative .causes / ' to 1947^ . / &r-' 7 find ASBESTOS} - and other ' comparative.' fiT&fsfis, . -r' - HEART *T `>*\ S5>1 - ,: * LpSi ,, t ` THFTEORI?.j|jm<a ' i ;: ` '" "67." :- ,. 1943- ''2' 19U. -3 32 .24 i 'i?'' ' ' 1M V^l:/ - %$: `'..; .'' 19A5' - '16 8 i<M6,, ; 22 .7 29 .16 28 13 8 15 16 11 - ; 5 ;c 14 11 5 -'.6 *10 ir 6. - r 7 11'.- 3.V, 33 ' 23- 7* '3. 35 23 6 1 :: 13 ....,21?3''-. ' `X K 14": ^ -10./ c, ` *`K . ' 4 .; & *& 2 a,: 18 18 :9 12 24 '20 14 J fv. 6*-jjSBESTQS w. *. .. > v-' .1943 .' '2 .- 1 , 1- - 0.-' 2 ' 1944 4 :3 1' -a'. 19A5 . a 5 2 -qx : 7 1946 .. "5 4' -' 1 5 1947 , -5 0 5 A 1`. -1 1 .0 4 . ' 2 4 3' 6 14 ,4 2 2 t - 41' li'; -0 0 2 5- 1 2 . 2. 4 o'-- ' -'6 3 V, 7 .7 . 13 33 21 34 34 % ," i VAIlOTJgliD. .. .1943 10. '' ", 5 ;! -3944 17 55 3. 14 ' 194$ 14 1946 '-: 15 ' ' . ;W 15 %- 3 ' ' ST-fifACIKTHE " -, '19 * "* \ *" * *' . ` ^ '`;i944'-;Sr 19 * ; ` H* , . 1945 " 1`5 A. , 1946 .27 a6 :8 7 78 5 14 4 15 5 10 11 16 ,,1 ' 1947 15 8 7 19- 21 22 '' 27 19 1G 10 10 13 14 '9 14 11 11 . 9 `7 12 8 7 -14 13 8 , 5 ' _ 6 - 5 -.43 17- 26 40 12. 28 32 11 21 34 10 24 37 15 ` 2? 16 14 10 7 11 5 66 7. 6 3 23' 10 i 43 29 1 " 40 25 5- 30 17 1 *. -34 - 18 13 14 15 13 16 2 76 3 - 74 6 58 0 55 1 - 63 41 35 34 40 34 -H 22. 33 28 35 LA TUQU^ .. ' ' * . 1943. ^ ' 1944- 5 4-1 15- 0 6 12 6 ,, . 'i. \ . * ' . t * C; .12 ` 6 6 9 121-; ' 4 - 8- -10 /k : . .1 1947, -. ? 2 5 10 9 1 6 5 n . RXM0USK.I ' '* ' " 11943 i: -1944- ~-ms ' ` '1946 1.947- 60 - 27 - 12 ' 5 -6 1 11 6 11 2 33 7 8 59 - 17 e .9 5 7 16- ' 6 9, 6 3 5 3 5 3 9 4 4 10 -3. 8 .,8 0 a - -"5: 3 57 6 1 . -75- , ~4r- 4. _2 .2 9 16 4 ' -12' .12 63 10 6 r3 6 84 10 "7 3, . 12 . 4 . .8 7 -4- 3 "7 3 6 a 7 i 20 7 13 2 1 ' 1. 16 7 9 6 .2 4 19 12 7 " ' CHICOUTIMI * o- . . ' "l9A3\' AS 19 29 2B 17 11 16 12 . 4 1944.:- 2Q 6 14 10 6 4 "9 "7 2 : 194^' ' a , 3 13-- 17 9' 8 ' 22 16' 6 1946 ' 20 9 :11 12 6 6 14 12 2 .1947- 24 . 13 11. 25/ 17 8 13 !9.- 4 24 12 12 -14 5 '9 16 7 ' 9 30 13' 17 32 13= 14. 1 J.ONqUIERE i *'y ' 1943 : 12 4p. 10 f. 4 1944 i 29 11 13 11 ct 6 1945' 19 10 9. 1-3 7 6 1946 24 13 11 10 4. 6 1947-- 32 16 16 Q 3 6' 13 9 4'6 4- a--8 8 .3 Q:, 9 , 9 - B- 13 1C 3 9 6- 14 " 7 & 7 12 7 14 12 37 08 .5-. 2'