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FILE NAME: WR Grace (WRG)
DATE: March 22, 1938
DOC#: WRG245
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: 1938 Copy of Letter to Manfred Bowditch from Saranac Lab (WRG033) with additional annotation regarding absence from WR Grace files.
T he Saranac Laboratory for the Study of T uberculosis
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of
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THE EDWARI' L. TRUDEAU FOUNDATION
POJT OPPICI 01 f f l 7 CHURCH STRUT
Sa r a n a c L aics, N.Y.
March 22, 1938
Mr. Manfred 3ov/ditch Dpartaient of Labor 23 Joy Street Boston, Mass.
Dear Manfred:
On my return from Guatemala I found
your letter of the 4th with its enclosure from Mr.
Bradley Dewey. I do not think that his explanation
that Russian and Rhodesian asbestos might be- the cause
of asbestosis is the p<6irper pne,.. I caiinpt help but
feel that the length of "the fibre has more to'do
with it. However, one must admit that there have .
apparently been more cases of this disease in your
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state than Tony was able to detect up at Mannheim and
other places.
I talked trith Tony not so long ago and premised to send him autopsy reports on all the cases I have seen. His experience with x-rays tends to make him minimize the condition, but certainly it is a real thing and cannot be filughed off too easily. On the other hand I do not believe~that we are seeing the extreme cases that have been reported from England.
Clanking you most kindly for keeping me
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informed, I am, with very beat wishes.
LUG:CC
Sincerely yours,
TP'-
Leroy U. Gardner, Director
w. R. Grace & Co. received this document on July 27, 1985, from the plaintiff as a trial exhibit in Greenville County school
Dist. v. o. s. Gypsum Co.,
et al.. C/A No. 82-3142-14
(U .s .D .c . South Carolina). No
copy of this document has been found in Grace's own files.