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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 June 16 DOC NMA032 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION San Francisco Chronicle - N.Y. Acts Against Asbestos Threat Tues , June 1970 San Francisco Chronicle 13 Francisco Depart- PublicHealth con- fe | NewNew YorkYork on his lungs He said there ~ Lindsay Mayor John V. was no | way to avoid it in ordered a halt yesterdayin New York Inspection Bureau ordered to re spraying of asbestos Asbestos is covering of material suspected as a cause of which insulates steel girders Inspection cancer at all at construction sites It is operated construction construction sites also used on auto brakes and ~ There is an extraordinari- cars in addition to exhaust greater to cancer , exenceoflung ly highcorrelation between | the amount of asbestos in- incidhaled and the contraction of fumes are also thought to pollute the atmosph^rewith asbestos cancer and cancer said John Leo The problem with cars spokesman for the city's En Leo said is that its very vironmental Protection Ad- hard to measure how much - ministration The correla- | asbestos is thrown off At tion | construction ) is the same as for construction sisitestes iitt''s s much much " smoking that De- | easier fe Leo said Dr. Irving Selikoff Asbestos workers suffer with of Mount Sinai Hospital who chest and lung diseases at advi- has been studying the prob ten times the rate of the gen- lem since 1953 found that eral population Leo said conservationers :. one out five asbestos work-| On April 10 the city or- conservationers conservationers in the New York area dered private contractors to conservationers dies oflung cancer cover areas being sprayed tomic tomic And you can't get rid of waistbhesttoasrpdauuslitns to cut down fects marine of marine it Leo said Once it's been Leo shipping such as ,shorelineshoreline inhaled it stays on the lungs said the Lindsay ad- . and development | ocean re- forevefrorever ministration is still debating 3 source Selikoff exploitation | hearing quarters are Itshead- | told a city in May that everyone in whether to extend the asbes- tos ban to private contrac- at 680 Beach a ne everyone New tors has streethere York City some asbestos FS tebe Maptet aa meg tee Press United eee caenemene ee SLUJOL SLUJOL SLUJOL