Britain's factory inspectors. Their 1930 report by Merewether and Price showed that asbestos dust caused asbestosis and led to the first asbestos regulations in 1931, and the Chief Inspector's annual reports followed the disease, and later lung cancer, among asbestos workers.
Reports in the Library
- 1899Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for the Year 1898, Part II: Reports
- 1930E. R. A. Merewether and C. W. Price, Report on Effects of Asbestos Dust on the Lungs
- 1931Home Office, Report on Conferences between Employers and Inspectors on Suppressing Dust in Asbestos Textile FactoriesThe Sumner Simpson Papers
- 1935Memorandum on the Industrial Diseases of Silicosis and Asbestosis
- 1949Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for the Year 1947, on Asbestosis and Lung Cancer
- 1951Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for the Year 1949
- 1955Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories