Program of the Fourth Silicosis Symposium at Saranac Laboratory (1939)

The printed program of "The Fourth Silicosis Symposium," held June 19 to 23, 1939, at Saranac Laboratory, Saranac Lake, New York, in connection with the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis. Over five days it listed sessions on the causes, measurement, pathology and X-ray picture of silicosis, surveys of mining, gypsum, cement, foundry and other industries, and prevention, insurance and legislation. Speakers included Dr. Leroy U. Gardner, Donald E. Cummings and Dr. A. J. Vorwald of Saranac, Dr. A. J. Lanza of Metropolitan Life, Dr. R. R. Sayers of the U.S. Public Health Service, Philip Drinker of Harvard and Dr. A. R. Riddell of the Ontario Department of Health.

What it shows

No session on the program is about asbestos or asbestosis, although asbestos was among the dusts Saranac had been studying for the industry. The laboratory's 1938 report explained that the symposium had been skipped in 1938 and would be held in June 1939 (the 1938 report). The first symposium, in 1935, is here.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

"The Fourth Silicosis Symposium - June 19 to 23, 1939." Program gives list of topics and speakers giving presentations at symposium. Speakers include Lanza, Gardner, Drinker, Cummings, Pendergrass, among others.

Related documents

• Saranac Laboratory, Report of the Director and Financial Report for 1938, with Reprints (1938)
• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd Enclosing the Saranac Silicosis Symposium Program (1935)

About this copy

This is document 04062-04064 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.