Harry A. Burris Death Record and Physician's Statement (1964)

Two pages about the death of Harry A. Burris, aged 67, at the Veterans Administration hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, on June 29, 1964: a copy of the Town of Bedford's record of death, dated July 2, 1964, and a physician's proof-of-death statement to the Travelers Insurance Company. Both give the cause of death as bilateral pulmonary artery thrombosis due to atherosclerosis; the physician's statement lists asbestosis among the other significant conditions and records that an autopsy was done.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Harry A. Burris, a 67-year-old white male, was employed as a foreman for an insulating company for many years. In approximately 1958, he was diagnosed with chronic fibrosis, "presumptively secondary to asbestosis which was used [sic] in the materials with which he worked." He initially entered Bedford V.A. Hospital on 10/25/63 to be treated for his lung condition. He had been hospitalized elsewhere on many prior occasions to be treated for increasing dyspnea. He died on 6/29/64. As of 1/31/75, according to Susan Koonsman's (J-M) letter to Marsh/McLennan, 3/19/75, a total of $35,501.50 had been expended on Burris' workers' compensation claim to date. (It is not stated when he filed his workers' compensation claim.)