FILE NAME: Metropolitan Life (ML) DATE: 1935 DOC#: ML249 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Foundation of Air Hygiene Foundation Twenty-Two Ea st Fortieth S t r e e t New Yo rk.N.Y.

We feel we are keeping pace, or possibly a step ahead, by making a specialised study of the leading manufacturer* in taadardijjog schedule* developed to meet the requirements of one class of trade only.

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We feel we are keeping pace, or possibly a step ahead, by making a specialised study of the leading manufacturer* in taadardijjog schedule* developed to meet the requirements of one class of trade only.

Results Chemical Less Than PEL Number Percent Greater or Equal to PEL Number Percent VCM Lead An timony Total Particulates 67 k 6 5 100 67 100 100 00 2 33 00 00 Overexposures Overexposures to lead occurred to compounders in the Compound Department.

(Yaglou). 238 conditioning, rayon and (Lewis).......205 conditioning, use of silica gel in (Patterson)..................................... 143 conditioning with lithium chloride system (Knapp).............................. 185 contaminants that affect health (Meller)........................................... 39 country and town, nature of dis- persoids in (Coste)........................ 66 flow in exhaust systems, tentative code for testing and measuring (Allan)............................................. 90 isolation of pathogenic bacteria from (Pressm an)....................... 191 movement as stimulus to skin, reflex effects on muscle tonus and blood circulation; therapeutic baths (Henderson, Oughterson, Green berg and Searle)............. 181 needs, hygienic, in ventilation of work places (Liese)........................ 238 pollution in New York City (Pincus and Stern).................................... ... 146 Alcoholism in development of arsenic poisoning, significance of (Zimmer mann and Remy)........................... 110 Alcohols, hydrocarbons and, toxic vapors of (Raadsveld)................... 8 Alimentary tract, lead poisoning with symptomatology referring to (Preti)........................................ 128 Alumina dust, clinical and radiological examination of workers exposed to . 153 Aluminum, metallic, prevention of silicosis by (Denny, Robson and Irw in).............................................. 197 American College of Surgeons, 1936 surveys of medical service in in dustry by (Newquist).................... 102 Anaphylaxis induced by picryl chlo ride and 2:4 dinitrochlorobenzene (Landsteiner and Chase)............... 233 Anemia, caisson disease, rle of spleen in (Kadykov and Lubimova)........ 137 methemoglobin, after ethylene nitrite poisoning (Seggel).......................... 39 pernicious, in chronic carbon monox ide poisoning (Berger and Grill)... 9 Angina pectoris after flue gas poison ing (Kroetz).................................... 36 from inhalation of trichlorethylene, two cases of (Gerbis)...................... 106 Akiline, allergic eczema caused by dyed clothes (Nadel)...................... 68 dyes, acute poisoning from (Montel and M orty)..................................... 38 dye plant, static electricity as fire hazard in (Burke).......................... 179 effect of, on liver and on function of pituitary and adrenals (Rudenko). 130 Aniline methemoglobin formation iron.

:ancer and 29, active nel ter. icer >, Arch, Mosel 1 e 20 ARSENIC AND RESPIRATORY CANCER IN MAN: FOLLOW-UP OF AN OCCUPATIONAL STUDY Anna Lee-Feldstein Biostatistics Department The University of Michigan ` School of Public Health Ann Arbor, MI 48109 The earlier report by Lee*' and Fraumeni on the mortality experience of 8047 white male copper smelter workers exposed to arsenic trioxide in western United States followed the mor tality of the group during the period 1938-63.

Hie outfit is carried in. a case with 9 impingers, and in operation the closed ease is held by straps passing over the operator's shoulder, with a rubber tube lead ing from the case to the impinger.

The classes of materials analyzed were* silica fluid silicates metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, mercury, etc.) fumes (lead, zinc, mercury, solvents such as amyl acetate, methyl alcohol, dichlorbenzine, tricresylphosphate, etc.) gases (carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous fumes, etc.)

Kellogg is one of the world's leading process engineering and ocnetructicn firms.

FILE NAME: Kohler (KOH) DATE: 1935 DOC#: KOHOIO DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Metals Section - American Ceramic Society ''"" : " ' .

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Sicxa, Sl Joseph Lead Co-.

Thyrite is being developed i s P itts fie ld as a possible substi tu te f o r the lead in th e lig h tn in g a r r e s te r department I t i s a mix tu re o f clay f g rap h ite and carborundum* The chemist says *A11 oarM berundum p a rtic le s have a th in coating of silica* Tungsten'Carbide is heavy and almost a s h ard as a diamond*.