Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd Sending Copies of the Metropolitan Life Study (1935)

A one-page letter of February 8, 1935, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, to M. F. Judd of Raybestos-Manhattan, headed "Metropolitan Survey - Preliminary Report." Brown enclosed six copies of the January 4, 1935, issue of Public Health Reports of the U.S. Public Health Service, which carried the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's study "Effects of the Inhalation of Asbestos Dust on the Lungs of Asbestos Workers." Handwritten notes on the Raybestos-Manhattan copy show it was acknowledged and that copies went to E. H. Jeffords, G. R. Weber and A. F. Townsend.

What it shows

The study, by Dr. A. J. Lanza and his Metropolitan Life colleagues, was the published version of the dust survey the companies had paid for (the published Lanza report). This letter starts a short chain: Judd thanked Brown and sent copies to the heads of Raybestos-Manhattan's divisions, with a key to the plants the study had left unnamed.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Transmittal letter for 6 copies of the 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" (Journal attached).

Related documents

• M. F. Judd to Vandiver Brown on 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)
• M. F. Judd to G. R. Weber Identifying the Plants in the Metropolitan Life Study (1935)
• Sumner Simpson to Julian Mitchell Sending the Lanza Study (1935)

About this copy

This is document 02384-02422 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.