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FILE NAME: Saranac (SAR) DATE: 1948 June 17 DOC#: SAR141 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Keasbey & Mattison from Vandiver Brown with Quote from Saranac Lab RE Release of the Asbestosis Report Mr. Brae*t Muehleck, Ceasbey * Mattison, Jtabler, Penr.jylvenia. D r Mr. a o e h le e k t Dsder dte of June lAth Or. Vom i d of 8aranac Laboratory wrote our Mr. J. P. Woodard as follows: The daisy In cowpletlng the wonograph on asbestos's is d o less distorting to us than it i* to you. Me appreciate its urgency for guidance in the solution of prchisa* pertain ing to your workers. Every effort is being aade by vie to bring it to conclusion. Beii-va sj however, it is a womiaental task. The date of all the studies snd observations -cede by us during the past nonber of years is wolusinous. It Is not easy to collata it and digest it for purposes of a Monograph that Bight serve as a basis for guidance. There fore, as you laply. It oust be factual and not conjectural. * For nearly a year we have received repeated assurances that tbs monograph would be ready within s matter of weeks. Mr. Woodard, in transmitting to we a copy of the letter froa which the above is quoted, stated that he had followed Dr. Yorwald on so sseny brcasions that he was *about out of gas*. You and Mr. Rohrbaeh will hear froa ae further as soon ti I have anything to report. Sincerely yours. andiver Brown, TBty Secretary, cc Mr.J.F.D.Sohrbeeh Raybe stos-Kanha ttan,Inc. Passaic, M.J. *