Sumner Simpson to J. H. Matthews Sending the New England Health Institute Industrial Hygiene Program (1940)

A one-page letter of April 2, 1940, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to J. H. Matthews, assistant factory manager of the Manhattan Rubber Mfg. Division at Passaic, New Jersey, enclosing the industrial hygiene program of the New England Health Institute, held in Hartford on April 16 to 18. Simpson wrote that O. H. Cilley wanted to attend, that Bridgeport would "more than likely have at least two going," and that someone from Passaic might want to go. With it is a 12-page set of papers: the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut's Bulletin No. 746 of March 20, 1940 listing the ten industrial hygiene papers, a Connecticut State Department of Health schedule of radio talks, a list of health films, and the Institute's printed program and faculty list.

What it shows

The industrial hygiene section of the Institute included Dr. Leroy U. Gardner of Saranac Laboratory on "The Effect of Various Dusts on the Human Organism," with talks on respirators, dermatitis and engineering control of occupational disease. Someone checked Gardner's, Schwartz's, Yant's and Postman's talks on the program, the four that the Raybestos-Manhattan engineer J. F. Fenning later reported on (his report of April 19, 1940).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

04412. Transmittal letter for copy of Industrial Hygiene Program of New England Health Institute scheduled for April 16-18. Suggests representative might be sent from Passaic plant.

04413-04416. "Bulletin No. 746, Industrial Hygiene Program at the New England Health Institute." Gives times, speakers and topics of papers to be delivered at the New England Health Institute. Dr. L. Gardner will present speech entitled "The Effects of Various Dusts on the Human Organism."

Related documents

• J. H. Matthews to Sumner Simpson on Sending a Passaic Man to the Health Institute (1940)
• Sumner Simpson to Leroy U. Gardner on His Talk at the New England Health Institute (1940)
• O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson on Attending the New England Health Institute (1940)
• J. F. Fenning, Report on the New England Health Institute Meetings (1940)

About this copy

These are documents 04412, 04413-04416 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.