R. L. Moore to Dr. S. Holmes of Turner Brothers Asbestos on the Missing Textile Mill Dust Count Report (1967)

A one-page letter of July 28, 1967, from R. L. Moore, director of the Research and Development Department of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Dr. S. Holmes of Turner Brothers Asbestos Company Ltd., Rochdale, England, with copies to John Waddell and S. R. Zimmerman, Jr. Moore had read a report by Dr. Cralley, Keenan and Lynch, "Exposure to Metals in the Manufacture of Asbestos Textile Products," and offered to send a copy. He added that "we have looked high and low for the dust count report made sometime ago at various asbestos textile mills in U.S.A. and no one has been able to find a copy," and promised that if it turned up he would forward "a decoded copy."

What it shows

The two men had discussed the dust count report when they met in London on May 19, 1967. The authors Moore names were the U.S. Public Health Service researchers whose asbestos textile study Raybestos-Manhattan had joined (Zimmerman's letter to Dr. Lewis J. Cralley, 1963), and whose Manheim dust results the company had questioned in 1965 (Moore's memo of November 12, 1965). The promise of a "decoded" copy suggests the mill survey report identified the plants by code.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Informs that "we have looked high and low for the dust count made sometime ago at various textile mills in U.S.A and no one has been able to find a copy." Discussions centered on these dust counts during the 5/19/67 meeting in London.

Related documents

• R. L. Moore to S. R. Zimmerman Sending J. Wronski's Comments on the Public Health Service Dust Report (1965)
• S. R. Zimmerman to R. L. Moore Sending the Public Health Service's Manheim Dust Results (1965)
• S. R. Zimmerman to Dr. Lewis J. Cralley Limiting Raybestos-Manhattan's Part in the Public Health Service Asbestos Study (1963)

About this copy

This is document 05849 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.