Nancy Sussman and Gary M. Marsh, Occupations Associated with Asbestosis (1900-1964): A Literature Review (1978)

An 18-page literature review dated May 1978, "Occupations Associated with Asbestosis (1900-1964)," by Nancy Sussman, M.S., and Gary M. Marsh, Sc.D. It is a set of year-by-year tables listing the authors of published reports of asbestosis from 1900 to 1964, sorted by the workers they described: asbestos mine and mill workers, asbestos products factory workers, insulators and other pipe coverers, laggers and plasterers, other occupations, and occupation not stated. The first entry in the insulators' column is Merewether, in 1938. Behind an "Appendix B" divider are two charts of the "Opinions of Authors Publishing 1933-1965" on whether asbestosis causes lung cancer and whether asbestos exposure causes mesothelioma, sorted into "definitely," "possibly" and "unproven or does not cause."

What it shows

Tables like these were built to answer when the medical literature first reported disease in insulators and other users of asbestos products, rather than in the plants and mines: a question at the center of the state of the art defense. The same authors assisted Dr. Philip Enterline with his Asbestos and Cancer: The First Thirty Years, written for the Asbestos Information Association, whose tables of opinions match these. The letters after each name appear to code the kind of publication, but the key is not in these pages.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

19-page document entitled "Occupations Associated with Asbestosis (1900 - 1964) A Literature Review," by Nancy Sussman and Gary M. Marsh, May 1978. The first article cited in which asbestosis is found among an insulation worker is an article by Merewether in 1938. (The title of the article is not listed.) Attached are charts entitled "Opinions of Authors Published in 1933 to 1965 Regarding the Causal Relationship between Asbestosis and Lung Cancer" and "Opinions of Authors Published in 1933 - 1965 Regarding the Causal Relationship between Asbestos Exposure and Mesothelioma."

Related documents

• Philip E. Enterline, Asbestos and Cancer: The First Thirty Years (1978)

About this copy

This is document 725 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-003090 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-003107.