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SOUTH LONDON PRESS May 13, 1969
TUMOUK
A VTnniCT of pecidenm'.
death was rerurnrd at South
wark on Wednesday on a
Dot herb if he man rm ai>-
j working most of his li!o | asbestos factories, died Iron:
a malignant !unc tumour.
Me was Charles no-" ' 37' . fift AlHion K>`.>ie. Swim-ru : Ib/hcrhilhc. IMr. lire the, Thomas, of fie r-nc ar!rt-r--\
toi(i tlte euroncr how Mr. had b-en ;.n relive. i:c.V,:V 1 man but bad v orbed for variemasbestos firms since
He bad become "chesty" the past three years. An H-r.-y revealed ilia*, be was ill and 'm vas attrairfe'l In Im.-p-ta*. Hose sai<l Ins l;**e broM-eliarl an oners' ion for rare- r. rl if* I on t-Vbrn.iry CT a; Diner's llorp'.iai.
Professor Kokh Sin*:*-'"paiiinlneis; said miero..... ;v evaaiinai inn had reveal'.i-bcrtr. wrve e- -n !v :.
source of 'he tumour. "This > a crow:b that
no\v neeepi.-d ye-er.-.ily rba Jln'-'H* of a-
Mler he coroner bad on1 lined to toe jury the siatn'iranee m* fir. I'o'-e s h.-v ;o worked in csbe-ej fa-p-v ove- many year:-, the iir re'-imcd a. verc'ic: o' aecidiyy.i
death.
THE LISTENER June 5, 1969
Asbestos
pit: I, like many other rity-rf-.-ellers, will bs only too pleased to loam tint asbestos worn
from ear brake lininrs is no*. aHor all. a
cancer risk. But. in the fac of the mnsc'we emcom s!;eun about a.sVstns by t''e ns
l'res',.lout's Science Advisory fonnit'w, total
reassurance about this v ill rye-' mas-iva fsti:i!l. The MP"lo series of t. ,-ts ount'-d. in p.-ut,
by Hr Ibvvarr! of tli
toe Inf.-rtmlum
I'nmiiiittee (f.isferi'T. "" May) seems bv no
means eoncitisivc. and is mt, in total, entirety
reassurin':. Kvon Hie drum brakes tested re
leased some free asbestos fibres--whore cancer
is concerned, no carcinoycnics would be the only truly cood news. Hut modern British ears
commonly rely lor most of fliwr brakiny ebor!
on ih .-c brake::, not drums. The sin-do sample
ol disc br.'l.e tested m.it report'-d by ,'tr
Howardi n-l -a.-.ei! morn than 5 per cent "uf its
v.-orn residue as free asbestos fbres.
London MW3
af.isr>Aitt r.unrjrr
BRADFORD TELEGRAPH & ARGUS. YORKS
May 22, 1969
Inrinstria!
naased cfoath
Mr. .Tack r.amfnrd iM', of IS Ventv Street. Hast fern-lev, I praiirnni, died from a *"niig| n:mt inmour due in the odus. , rria^ rli.erve a^be.tosi-. die 1 1','e-t r.idinc rorenrr. Vr. 13. i l.idie. recnvilctl at (llcckreaton : today.
Mr. r.amfnrd. who rbed at hove on Sunday, liarl -- eckeil .at the Clrckhcatort h ni of IV./i.-ii Reitin- and A "">ms I/d., trom 1AM to iW.i in the -nmnma ami carding dennrtincut.
DEATHTHE OXFORD TIMES FROM
May 9, 1969
ASBESTOS
DISEASE
Fortv years after working in an asbestos factory an Oxford woman became ill and died frnm an industrial disease known as asbestosis. it was stated at an Oxford inuuest on Wednesday.
Mrs. Kathleen Doris Fox. aged 64, of 14 Ouslev Close. Marston. died on Aoril 23 at Sunnv-sidc. Hcadington.
Her husband. Mr. Frederick Fox. a car assember. saul his wife had shown no signs, of the disease until her stomach started to swell.
He said his wife had worked in an asbestos factory at Barking from 1923-2K. Her brother had died form a similar complaint.
Dr. Richard Whitehead, consultant pathologist at the Radchflc Intirmars. said he found that Mrs. Fox's hodv was rich in asbestos bodies.
He said that the cffects of this type of industrial disease from as long aeo as 40->0 years could still result in complications.
THE NORTHERN ECHO May 23, 1969
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p-svywo <n ail wi-.rkc'-. .n-
rl,,,i;r.; !ae~i>rs. potentiate
ri'k from 2`hcslns du-t.
risk from asbestos dust.
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