J. P. Woodard to Dr. A. J. Lanza Sending Saranac's Proposal on Asbestosis and Pulmonary Cancer (1950)

A one-page letter of October 6, 1950, from J. P. Woodard of Johns-Manville to Dr. Anthony J. Lanza of New York University's Institute of Industrial Medicine. Woodard sent a proposal prepared by Saranac for an investigation of "Asbestosis and Pulmonary Cancer," which had come with an October 4 letter from Dr. Arthur Vorwald, and asked Lanza to review it "before I do anything further about this." A handwritten note says Lanza noted it and returned it on October 11, 1950.

What it shows

The letter is an early step in the lung cancer study that the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association paid the Saranac Laboratory to carry out. Earlier that year Dr. Kenneth Smith had written about the contract for the study (Motley document 9).

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

J.P. Woodard letter to Dr. A.J. Lanza, 10/6/50, transmitting a proposal prepared by the Saranac Lab re investigation of "asbestosis and pulmonary cancer." Requests comments from Dr. Lanza.

About this copy

This is document 143 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-001170 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001170.