National Safety Council, 1932 Transactions of the Twenty-First Annual Safety Congress, Excerpts with Papers on Mineral Dusts, Asbestos and Silicosis (1932)

Excerpts from the published 1932 Transactions of the National Safety Council's Twenty-First Annual Safety Congress (Washington, D.C., October 1932). They include the title page, contents, and lists of officers and directors, followed by pages from the Industrial Health Section. Those pages carry Gardner's paper on inhaled mineral dusts, which says asbestos dust had been shown within the last three or four years to produce a specific lung reaction. They also carry Bloomfield's paper on dust content in dusty industries, with quartz-content and dust-count tables, and the opening of Russell's paper on silicosis. unreviewed

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• Page 1: Title page, 1932 Transactions, National Safety Council, Twenty-First Annual Safety Congress
• Page 2: Table of contents, council officers and executive committee (page rotated in the image)
• Pages 3-4: Executive committee and directors (1932-1933); the list includes W. H. Winans, Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation
• Page 5: Industrial Health Section: end of a talk on plant medical service; Tuesday afternoon session, October 4, 1932; start of Gardner, 'The Effects of Inhaled Mineral Dusts'
• Pages 6-7: Gardner, continued, on silicosis, asbestos dust and lung reaction; end of the paper and start of Bloomfield, 'The Dust Content of the Atmosphere in Various Dusty Industries'
• Pages 8-10: Bloomfield, continued: dust classes, quartz content table (Table 1), particle size, dust counts by trade (Table 2)
• Page 11: End of Bloomfield; start of Russell, 'Clinical and Statistical Aspects of Silicosis,' including its economic aspects

People and organizations

From Leroy U. Gardner (Director, Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, Saranac Lake, N. Y.); J. J. Bloomfield (Sanitary Engineer, United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C.); Albert E. Russell, M. D. (Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service; Surgeon, U. S. Bureau of Mines).

• J. J. Bloomfield (author)
• Leroy U. Gardner (author)
• National Safety Council (its organization)
• Aetna Life Insurance Company (named)
• American Petroleum Institute (named)
• American Telephone & Telegraph Company (named)
• Armour (named)
• Bethlehem Steel Company (named)
• Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (named)
• General Electric (named)
• Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (named)
• Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (named)
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (named)
• National Bureau of Casualty & Surety Underwriters (named)
• Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis (named)
• Standard Oil Company (named)
• The Pullman Company (named)
• U.S. Bureau of Mines (named)
• U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)
• Union Pacific Railroad Company (named)
• United States Rubber Company (named)
• Western Electric Company (named)
• Yale Medical School (named)

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Pages on our site about what this document covers: U.S. Bureau of Mines · Washington DC Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · What is asbestosis.

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This is document UC-5086 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 11 pages.