Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on a Proposed Lung Cancer Study (1956)

Three pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene Committee meeting of September 5, 1956, signed by D. R. Holmes as chairman. Members discussed dust collectors, oil sprays on fiber, dust counts in their plants, and whether to keep giving employees yearly chest X-rays given new concerns about radiation. They also discussed the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's proposed "Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in asbestos workers" for the Institute, which would follow at least 1,800 employees and cost an estimated $17,500.

What it shows

The committee members had held the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's proposal since June. "After a long discussion of this proposal during which there was considerable difference in opinion concerning the merits of such a study," they decided to keep talking and make no recommendation to the Board of Governors. The minutes show the textile companies weighing, and holding off on, a study of lung cancer among their own workers six months after Dr. Smith urged one (March 7, 1956).

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

ATI Meeting Minutes, 9/5/56 - Air Hygiene Committee. Discusses Proposed Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Workers conducted by the IHF for the ATI.

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• Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on Dr. Kenneth Smith, Dr. Hueper and Lung Cancer (1956)
• Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on the Taylor Case and the Proposed Lung Cancer Study (1956)

About this copy

This is document 53 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000570 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000572.