Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes on Refuting Dr. Hueper (1956)

Three pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's general meeting of March 8, 1956, in Philadelphia, with F. J. Wakem of Johns-Manville presiding. Reporting for the Air Hygiene Committee, D. R. Holmes said the comments of Dr. Smith of Johns-Manville on Dr. Hueper's report linking asbestosis with lung and heart disease had been "discussed at great length." The Board of Governors had "appropriated sufficient funds to initiate a preliminary survey to investigate the possibility of more concerted action designed to refute the work of Dr. Hueper." The meeting also planned a June meeting at Thetford Mines and funded a new asbestos textile exhibit.

What it shows

Dr. W. C. Hueper of the National Cancer Institute had linked asbestosis and lung cancer in a U.S. Public Health Service monograph. The day before this meeting, Dr. Kenneth Smith, Johns-Manville's medical director, had urged the Air Hygiene Committee to study the question (minutes of March 7, 1956). These general meeting minutes record how the Institute's leadership described the purpose of that first funding: to look into action against Hueper's work.

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, 3/8/56 - General Meeting. Comments by Dr. K.W. Smith re Dr. Hueper's report on asbestosis and lung cancer are discussed. Funds are appropriated to conduct an investigation into the possibility of refuting Dr. Hueper's results.

Duplicate of Motley Document #49.

Related documents

• Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on Dr. Kenneth Smith, Dr. Hueper and Lung Cancer (1956)

About this copy

These are documents 49 and 51 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-000559 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000561.