Hilton C. Lewinsohn to J. Wister Meigs Transmitting Draft Proposal for a General Electric Mesothelioma Case-Control Study (1982)

A cover letter from Hilton C. Lewinsohn to J. Wister Meigs dated June 1, 1982, enclosing a draft proposal to the General Electric Corporation for a case-control study of six former GE employees who died of malignant mesothelioma. The attached proposal sets out the study's introduction, objectives, methods and personnel, references, and two tables of relative risk of mesothelioma by job title and industry in Connecticut.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Letter from Hilton C. Lewinsohn to J. Wister Meigs, June 1, 1982, on the draft GE proposal
• Page 2: Title page of proposal to General Electric, submitted by Yale University School of Medicine (J. Wister Meigs); date blank
• Page 3: Introduction: Connecticut Tumor Registry mesothelioma study and cluster of six GE employees
• Page 4: Proposal and objectives of the case-control study
• Page 5: Methods: record review, matching of controls, work histories, interviews
• Page 6: Personnel: Meigs as principal investigator, Lewinsohn as consultant
• Page 7: References
• Page 8: Table I: relative risk of mesothelioma by job category
• Page 9: Table II: relative risk of mesothelioma by industry category
• Page 10: Page 10 listed in the exhibit; no text provided

People and organizations

From Hilton C. Lewinsohn (Consultant (per proposal personnel page); letterhead 181 Hitchcock Court, Orange, Connecticut) to J. Wister Meigs, M.D. (Yale University School of Medicine, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health).

• Hilton Cecil Lewinsohn (author)
• J. Wister Meigs (recipient)
• Hilton C. Lewinsohn / Yale University School of Medicine (its organization)
• American College of Chest Physicians (named)
• Chest (journal) (named)
• Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit (named)
• Connecticut Tumor Registry (named)
• Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (named)
• General Electric (named)
• IARC (named)
• International Conference on Occupational Lung Disease (named)
• Yale University School of Medicine (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: IARC · Mesothelioma: What It Is, How It's Diagnosed, and How It's Treated.

About this copy

This is document UC-4221 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 10 pages. Production numbers UCC 010440 to A01986.