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Dec. 1949 The rate of pulmonary cancer at autopsy in the general population was about % Cape had five factories in England and others in France Italy and South Africa in 1950 The Penge amosite mine achieved an output of 50,000 tons in 1953 and employed 5000 African workers Mineral rights were owned by an American subsidiary to which Cape paid a substantial royalty Virtually all the crocidolite exported to the US was used to make asbestos water pipes The major share of Cape's profits came from the mining and sale of asbestos By 1974 Cape added subsidiaries in Belgium Germany and the US and associated companies in India Sweden and New Zealand Cape Asbestos Asbestos Blues pp 42-58 Cape mines produced 95 of the amosite and 60 percent of the crocidolite in South Africa Memorandum to File Nov. 26 1962 Cape_Receiver_00133187 Aside from a small crocidolite mine in Australia that ran from 1946-1966 South Africa was the only source of these minerals in the world By 1950 most authors writing on the subject agreed that asbestos caused lung cancer An epidemiological study published by Doll in 1955 found that deaths from pulmonary cancer were over 10 times as frequent in men who worked in an asbestos product manufacturing plant as in the general population in Britain Like Wyers Doll included at least one case of endothelioma of the pleura in with the lung cancers Br J.

Dec. 1949 The rate of pulmonary cancer at autopsy in the general population was about % Cape had five factories in England and others in France Italy and South Africa in 1950 The Penge amosite mine achieved an output of 50,000 tons in 1953 and employed 5000 African workers Mineral rights were owned by an American subsidiary to which Cape paid a substantial royalty Virtually all the crocidolite exported to the US was used to make asbestos water pipes The major share of Cape's profits came from the mining and sale of asbestos By 1974 Cape added subsidiaries in Belgium Germany and the US and associated companies in India Sweden and New Zealand Cape Asbestos Asbestos Blues pp 42-58 Cape mines produced 95 of the amosite and 60 percent of the crocidolite in South Africa Memorandum to File Nov. 26 1962 Cape_Receiver_00133187 Aside from a small crocidolite mine in Australia that ran from 1946-1966 South Africa was the only source of these minerals in the world By 1950 most authors writing on the subject agreed that asbestos caused lung cancer An epidemiological study published by Doll in 1955 found that deaths from pulmonary cancer were over 10 times as frequent in men who worked in an asbestos product manufacturing plant as in the general population in Britain Like Wyers Doll included at least one case of endothelioma of the pleura in with the lung cancers Br J.

Inhalation of asbestos fibers has been shown to cause cancer. .., While the manufacturing firms themselves will participate in the state's October hearing, the Asbestos Cement Pipe Producers Association won't be allowed to by the state, said association Director of Public Af fairs John Welch.

So I took over a job 13 as the executive secretary of the Asbestos Information 14 Association of North America. 15 Q Let me go back to the public relations job 16 you had with Manville from *68 to '72. 17 A Uh-huh. 18 Q What specifically was your job function?

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I advised that there is precedence if this is considered a worthy association--we contribute to the Automotive Information Council on an annual basis.

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