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Yr .-V. R. HEATH LARRY (HKW YORK) "f* BTM. M.U. reC"r Industrie! Medicine Do we have ^thing Uke th.s? R.H.L. May 24, 1972 attachment i v^ihirCafocer. Jersey '-Town 3: Tiroes u . .*mrkers..produced . .similar findings, warns: rif the Je*-v sons of tbe past have not.' JCSv been learned, then we will'* nOBE&T VABS deaths before that date--an . been statistically expected. lung cancer. Some 160 are *JcaUrf .were due to ubo* face a very serious situation/ j,, April ts 'Hi K Tkt 'XitsioCImoptSO percept. Dr. S.llk.tt fated to died of asbestosls; tesla. X >. We must protect our future' u VHbUticd lMrt tactile. .V.J, . (OKU *1 llet KMttnmt cl Util Kk ett7dta-0 o/ S. *tr?tl1<Z" pn*> At lbth*otuU"et 11".bn,rbockrl b*. <! rKonled did not Inelud. employe. who died bfo bolor expoecd /or 10 5TM- Itaweer. Dr Mlkott ,fMSUOitMed 1L01,<l"JMrth"tou"lHwnr Cbotuat --S22'0li"of'mens*othSe"liotmWa;' wewc.(uUcr,uil.&tkSmttvelaE* duethiltat ; twjr .Jh am mbtr Wt!n.l camrr. . L.,n, ^ :Uwt tad Wen knlklpjt*!'-- Sim Dr. Stllkofri research ' J;,- Seiit-it . BIo- -Jw condaded that tho 60 per did produce wht bo died ^ fw l^ot tnoirtT - --*Jdjtodeathn,,. .,,ue h.pc/ul /tadtar.* Tb. generations." To the course of his re search. Dr. tdlkoff worked closely `with (he asbestos workers* untie. local <00 of the United P*permsJeers and tier pint. TU Isetitencc pointed act thnt lnc tho .lho woetni could b* entire- dendi rate, .mow .jtant doubt that nt boro the teciv Paperworkere. orctr oad liar tilcunlt nwrullty rte onioni wwK- hr- (Method to the exltmhr. worker. i*l*ned to oren. aAocf to reduee Uh duit our trorkon oud hou- cm ere always tower than .oeeumace /' the attestoj that were comparatively fret | aavcanscMorr trkerp ttt llatcltit it Ir.or- among non-worker. -- ade- rrdlatod diaeaaea. ct asbestos dust wtre lower '/ iiuoly JUrb--s pottent oh quat'o health being a juereq- IBotltha-anoat ehllHn* ta- than those who had worked "The remit. we found ore hx/tblt to asbestos ( uisti* of ability to perform ithtitfut yit to coinc.Based * hi areas with high conccn* hftgf of the past* he mutc. Three diseases its UcipaUy essodeted wit* bestoe Uhstotlo*.* 7km g near sabetfosis, a rflssM* g and sowertmes foul la*ff tmzM, mod mnotkeliossa* a re and bearable type of work --* the execs deaths ; isitCheeOaarfiltty experiences 'tntiooe of the mineral. add*UaltJJTbe legacy ef the among the MaavlUe plant ,f (the fm workers under Furthermore, fa the areas *** 3W0* 'Khta J*** workers studted are-erea -ctadiy, Dr. SeUkoff was able with a low quotient of as* cautions were.inadequate. It more dismaying than the . .toifonmdaU some stagger*' bests dust, less than 10 per was based oq the ignorance statistics reveal. ; tag.predictions. cent of (he deaths resulted of all of us/.It thews .what \fhy the surfeit of deaths? /Of:the 1000 employes who from asbestosls; whereas la you don't know cm hurt The causes ware not difficult) ven eraklac at the Johns- the textile areas, where as* you." ?2 to identify. JfanviH*;plaiit fa 19S9, about bestoe dust Is most preva 'And Dr. SellkofC. whose A year ago, Dr. Irving Ssti- it waa not particularly sur* Wean *- ----ted to die of lent, about 3? per cent of the previous studies of asbestos - iff, head of the Dlctitos of prisfag that 24 of the deaths .tuaoeMesfel Xediciite t resulted from asbestosls. fy Umvmiit't Mount gtsal After all asbestosls Js a die* Aool of .Vedicise* under- ttu that eannot be eeo- xik faete-ytil atsdy of the txaeted without exposure to edleal kUfoWes of CS0 esc* asbestos.' ojfCM of (A# ifcncUlc float, Susceptibility kick ts owned by tile Johns* 'oMriZZe Cory. Tbe real source of the un happily high death rate Dr: Ssltokfr* purpose was among the ManvlUe workers ) tMvesttgots the effects of can be readily traced to their r' * exposure eatoit? tho by coMponxy tile *P of deaths <2ad d(* tosco observed with the ex* ceted mortality rotes In the cacrcf fopulaHo*. Since susceptibility to cancer. According to calculations based on the general popula tion. only eight deaths from cancer of the lung were to rcvlout tiutiltt tuggetud >* oqteetti. Yet tmoet th. het ctbettateetitUd tlL. HtntUl, worker. tbtrox.r teats seldom develop uatU 37 such deaths -- a 530 per t7 year* after ialtisi expo* cent Increase. are to the dust particles. Dr, Mesothelioma, a cancer to 'eUkoff Oattied kit research rare that it strikes only o workers who were employ* about one la 10,000 fa tbe gov d as of Van. f, J3J9, ` end population, amounted oho * wwe.* employed for for IS deaths. sJotiam~of V) years, fsc -Only five gastroJntestfa* ore of age, sex, mud peer al (stomach, colon and ree* : ce..r.e......t.a..k..e..n.....I.n..t..o cansidcra- turn) cancers were to be 5 ion. Sere are tiU results of expected. Yet there were IS 1 A# Mamedla study, released deaths ta that category. And >f Dr.'Xetikoff to The Post where 14 deaths from can- odap.'~? cess at other sites were to According to the staodard nortallty UUea. 2S1 deaths wuM t have been expected tmoag the SO asbestos corker* by Dee. 31 of last 7ear. Instead there were 199 be expected, there were ac* , tually 17. - j All fa alt cancer accounted ! 'for TC deaths among tbe as* ! a bestos workers, of UanvlSe. 1 three times as many as had*