E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the Public Health Service Dust Survey at North Charleston (1937)

A one-page letter of January 8, 1937, from E. H. Jeffords of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division in North Charleston, South Carolina, to Sumner Simpson, the company's president. Jeffords thanked Simpson for travel instructions to the directors' meeting at Passaic on January 20 but said he might have to stay at the plant. The South Carolina State Board of Health had asked to survey "dust conditions at this plant" with the U.S. Public Health Service, which Simpson had approved for the spring; now the Board wrote that the federal representatives wanted to come on January 19, and Jeffords felt he "should be here at the same time."

What it shows

The survey had been agreed in the fall of 1936 after the South Carolina State Board of Health asked for it (Jeffords to Simpson, October 27, 1936; Simpson's reply). The letter shows the government study arriving months earlier than the company expected, and the plant manager choosing to be present while it was made. Jeffords reported on the study's arrangements again on January 18 (Jeffords to Simpson).

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

Acknowledges receipt of letter dated 1/5/37. Explains may be unable to attend meeting on 1/20/37. U.S. Public Health Service may send representatives to Charleston Plant on 1/19/37 to begin survey of dust conditions at said plant. Permission for this survey was given by Simpson. If Representatives are going to be at plant on 1/20/37, Jeffords feels he should remain at plant.

Related documents

• Raybestos-Manhattan's North Charleston Manager to Sumner Simpson on a State Health Board Dust Study (1936)
• Sumner Simpson to E. H. Jeffords on X-Rays and Fear of Suits (1936)
• Sumner Simpson to E. H. Jeffords Allowing Public Health Service X-Rays of Workers (1936)

About this copy

This is document 03166 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.