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Two pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene and Manufacturing Committee meeting of March 3, 1960, with a three-page copy of the second annual report of Britain's Asbestosis Research Council. One member company reported that recent X-rays showed "only seven cases of first stage Asbestosis (each case having been employed for 15 years or longer)" against eighty-five in 1936, which the minutes called "Living Proof" that dust removal was working. The committee also discussed an environmental health survey, the J-M dust sampler comparison, and plant accident rates.
- Author
- Ralph B. Smith
- Published by
- Asbestos Textile Institute
- Series
- The Motley 1000
- Date
- March 3, 1960
- Numbers
- Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000596 – 000600; Motley 1000 no. 63
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 12937 · asbestosclaims.law/library/12937
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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What it shows
The minutes report that four member companies were now X-raying all their employees every year and that one company's insurance carrier had just studied its employees' health records. The attached report shows the Asbestosis Research Council, set up on October 1, 1957, by the British companies Turner Brothers Asbestos, Cape Asbestos and British Belting and Asbestos, sending "edited versions" of its first report to the British Factory Department and to the Institute's committee. Its research at Reading and Cambridge covered asbestos dust in animals, asbestos bodies in lung tissue, and dust sampling.
In Johns-Manville's index
Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:
ATI Meeting Minutes, 3/3/60 - Air Hygiene Committee. Mentions environmental health surveys being conducted by members. Attaches Asbestosis Research Council's Annual Report for 12 months beginning 10/1/58.
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About this copy
This is document 63 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000596 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000600.
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Ralph B. Smith. “Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene and Manufacturing Committee Minutes with the Asbestosis Research Council's Second Annual Report.” March 3, 1960. The Motley 1000, Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000596 – 000600, Motley 1000 no. 63. Asbestos Textile Institute. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 12937. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/12937.
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