Vandiver Brown and W. J. McConnell of Metropolitan Life on Jarratt, Virginia, X-Rays (1939)

Two letters. On May 24, 1939, Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, told Dr. W. J. McConnell, assistant medical director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, that X-rays of the employees at J-M's new plant at Jarratt, Virginia, had been taken on paper film, which McConnell had offered to interpret, and that J-M would lend him the reading device needed. On March 18, 1940, McConnell, now signing also as director of Metropolitan Life's Industrial Health Section, sent Brown his interpretations of the 121 paper X-ray films from the Jarratt plant.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Correspondence dated 5/24/39 between V. Brown and W.J. McConnell, M.D., Assistant Medical Director and Director, Industrial Health Section of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, regarding Dr. McConnell's review of employee x-rays at the new Jarratt, VA plant. Several groups of x-rays are reviewed by Dr. McConnell. A letter from V. Brown to Dr. McConnell confirms that Dr. McConnell will review the x-rays of approximately 200 new employees from the Jarratt plant. A letter from Dr. McConnell of 3/18/40, confirms his review of 121 x-rays from the Jarratt plant.

Editor's note: J-M's description says Brown's letter confirms McConnell would review the X-rays of about 200 new employees. Brown's letter of May 24, 1939, gives no number; the figure of 121 films comes from McConnell's letter of March 18, 1940.