Robert T. P. deTreville to Joseph L. Goodman on Raybestos-Manhattan's Support of Fibrous Dust Research (1970)

A one-page letter of May 11, 1970, from Dr. Robert T. P. deTreville, president of the Industrial Health Foundation, to Dr. Joseph L. Goodman, medical director for research at Raybestos-Manhattan. DeTreville wrote that the Foundation's study of "Fibrous dusts in lungs of urban and rural dwellers" was funded by the U.S. Public Health Service and awaited only industry's share. He thanked Goodman for recommending continued support and promised the company "the benefits of sponsorship, including advanced notification of publications and an opportunity to share in research planning." Two pages follow from an unrelated report on rats injected with asbestos and other dusts.

What it shows

DeTreville also sent Goodman, "for your personal use," a copy of the Foundation's report to the Public Health Service on asbestos dusts, which "should not be reproduced without getting our permission." The letter shows the terms on which industry sponsors joined publicly funded dust research: early notice of publications and a voice in planning. The attached table reports high death rates in rats given chrysotile and other fibers into the windpipe.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Dr. Robert T.P. deTreville (President, IHF) letter to Dr. J.L. Goodman, 5/11/70. Dr. deTreville thanks Dr. Goodman and R-M for their continuing support of IHF's studies and in particular to IHF's research on fibrous dust in lungs of urban and rural dwellers. Dr. deTreville states that IHF will continue to extend to R-M the benefits of sponsorship, including advanced notification of publications and an opportunity to share in research planning. Attached are portions of a document indicating the results of experiments in which rats were injected with various kinds of hazardous dusts. The attachment appears to be unrelated to Dr. deTreville's letter.

Related documents

• Sally Carlysle of the Industrial Health Foundation to Fibrous Dust Study Sponsors on the 1970 Annual Report (1971)
• Robert T. P. deTreville to Fibrous Dust Study Sponsors on a Draft Public Health Service Document (1969)

About this copy

This is document 631 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-002159 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002161.