Industrial Hygiene Foundation, Digest of Industrial Hygiene, September 1941 (1941)

The September 1941 issue of the "Digest of Industrial Hygiene," the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's monthly members' digest of "Literature, News, Developments," 22 pages from Pittsburgh with numbered items 696 to 780 and a subject index. It carries news items, abstracts of court decisions on silicosis and occupational disease claims, and abstracts of papers on dust, gases, skin disease and other subjects. Among them is an abstract of a German study by M. Nordmann and A. Sorge, "Pulmonary Cancer Produced by Asbestos Dust in Experimental Animals," reporting that mice breathing asbestos dust developed asbestosis and that "The first well-developed carcinoma was found after 240 days."

What it shows

Raybestos-Manhattan was a member of the foundation (formerly the Air Hygiene Foundation of America), and this copy comes from Sumner Simpson's files, with a check mark beside the Nordmann abstract. It reported lung cancer in mice exposed to asbestos dust, with asbestosis bodies and diffuse fibrosis. The next abstract, by H. Hannesson, said there had been "90 known deaths from asbestosis in Great Britain" from 1933 to 1939, "of which 32 were associated with tuberculosis," and described the case of an asbestos worker who died of both. In 1940 the same digest had printed conclusions from Dr. Leroy Gardner's sponsored work (Brown's letter of May 1940).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

"Digest of Industrial Hygiene." Abstracts recent publications, meetings and research which deal with industrial disease and/or dust control. (Abstracts of interest include: "Pulmonary Cancer - Produced by Asbestos Dust in Experimental Animals", M. Nordmann & A. Sorgo; and "A Case of Pulmonary Asbestosis Accompanied by Tuberculosis", H. Hannesson).

About this copy

This is document 04680-04702 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.