M. F. Judd to G. R. Weber Identifying the Plants in the Metropolitan Life Study (1935)

A one-page letter of February 11, 1935, from M. F. Judd, secretary of Raybestos-Manhattan, to G. R. Weber of the company's United States Asbestos Division in Manheim, Pennsylvania, enclosing a copy of Public Health Reports with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's study of asbestos workers' lungs. Judd explained that the study's Plant "B" was Charleston, "C" was Manheim and "D" was Bridgeport and Stratford, adding: "We believe 'A' is Johns-Manville and 'E' is Russell, though we are not certain." He noted the survey was made from October 1929 to January 1931 and that "conditions have changed somewhat since that time."

What it shows

The Metropolitan Life study (the published Lanza report) identified the plants it surveyed only by letter. Raybestos-Manhattan's secretary sent the published study to the heads of the company's plants with a key to which plants were theirs. Judd sent the same letter, on the same day, to E. H. Jeffords in North Charleston and M. A. Hogan in Passaic.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Transmittal letter for copy of 1/4/35 issue of Public Health Reports which contains the relevant article "Effects of the Inhalation of Asbestos Dust on the Lungs of Asbestos Workers." Explains that plant "B" is Charleston; "C" is Manheim; "D" is Bridgeport and it is believed that "A" is JM and "E" is Russell. Acknowledges fact that conditions may have changed since the survey was completed in 1931. [No Attachment]

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd Sending Copies of the Metropolitan Life Study (1935)
• M. F. Judd to E. H. Jeffords Identifying the Plants in the Metropolitan Life Study (1935)
• M. F. Judd to M. A. Hogan Identifying the Plants in the Metropolitan Life Study (1935)

About this copy

This is document 02427 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.