81 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 4 of 5
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1972
H. C. Lewinsohn and S. Holmes, 'Occupational health factors in the United Kingdom,' CIBA-GEIGY Review (1972)
A magazine article by two Turner & Newall / Turner Brothers physicians describing UK occupational health controls for asbestos dust. It discusses asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, the Asbestos Industry Regulations 1931 and Asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1980
H. C. Lewinsohn, Discussion Summary on Radiology and Medical Surveillance of Asbestos-Exposed Workers, Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres, Vol. 2 (1980)
A reprinted discussion summary by H. C. Lewinsohn from IARC's Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres, Vol. 2 (ed. J. C. Wagner, 1980). It summarizes a conference session on the use of X-ray and other clinical tools to diagnose and monitor…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
H. C. Lewinsohn, J. W. Meigs and M. J. Teta, The Influence of Occupational and Environmental Asbestos Exposure on the Incidence of Malignant Mesothelioma in Connecticut (abstract, handwritten draft and manuscript)
Compilation of a conference abstract, a handwritten draft of it, and a typed manuscript on malignant mesothelioma cases in the Connecticut Tumor Registry from 1935 to 1977. The manuscript covers methods, results, references, figures and tables. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1975
H. C. Lewinsohn, The Surveillance of Asbestos Textile Workers in relation to the Environmental Background during Forty Years of Change at TBA Industrial Products Ltd (1975)
A conference paper, with appended discussion, by H. C. Lewinsohn of TBA Industrial Products Ltd reviewing 40 years of dust control and medical surveillance of asbestos textile workers at its Rochdale factory. It reports 27 confirmed mesothelioma…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 17, 1980
H. C. Lewinsohn, J. W. Meigs and M. J. Teta, Draft Presentation 'Malignant Mesothelioma in Connecticut 1935-1977' to the Connecticut Thoracic Society, with Added Pages (1980)
Draft paper (dated 10/17/80) for a November 4, 1980 presentation reporting a study of 229 malignant mesothelioma cases and 38 other pleural tumors in Connecticut, 1935-1977, covering methods, incidence rates, geographic distribution, slide review of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Eshleman, Kreider and Lewinsohn, 'The Establishment of a Medical Surveillance Program in an Asbestos Factory,' with Attached Abstracts and Lewinsohn's 'Asbestos - A Review of Health Safeguards' Talk (undated)
A 12-page exhibit that begins with a paper and abstract on setting up a medical surveillance program at a Pennsylvania friction materials plant to meet the OSHA asbestos standard. It also holds two pages of 'Abstracts on Hygiene' (November 1972) on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1974
Hilton C. Lewinsohn, 'Health Hazards of Asbestos: A Review of Recent Trends' (1974)
Reprint of a 1974 journal review article by Hilton C. Lewinsohn summarizing research since 1966 on the health effects of asbestos. It covers fibre physics and chemistry, experimental pathology, and epidemiology, including asbestosis, lung cancer and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1974
Hilton C. Lewinsohn, 'Health Hazards of Asbestos: A Review of Recent Trends,' Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine (1974)
Reprint of a 1974 review article on the health effects of asbestos by the chief medical officer of TBA Industrial Products. The exhibit holds the cover page and four later pages, which cover fibre size and deposition in the lung, experimental…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1979
Berry, Gilson, Holmes, Lewinsohn and Roach, 'Asbestosis: a study of dose-response relationships in an asbestos textile factory', British Journal of Industrial Medicine (1979)
Journal article reporting a follow-up of 379 men who had worked at least 10 years at an English asbestos textile factory, relating crepitations, possible and certified asbestosis, chest radiograph findings and lung function to dust exposure levels.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
S. Howard, L. J. Kinlen, H. C. Lewinsohn, J. Peto and R. Doll, A Mortality Study Among Workers in an English Asbestos Factory
Conference paper reporting a cohort mortality study of workers in an asbestos textile factory in northern England, followed up to the end of 1974. It compares observed and expected deaths from lung cancer, respiratory disease and other causes by…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 5, 1977
C. C. Evans, H. C. Lewinsohn and June M. Evans, 'Frequency of HLA Antigens in Asbestos Workers With and Without Pulmonary Fibrosis', British Medical Journal (1977)
Reprint of a British Medical Journal article reporting a study of HLA antigens in 37 asbestos textile workers with asbestosis and 37 matched exposed workers without pulmonary fibrosis, compared with white-collar workers and blood donors. The authors…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 14, 1979
G. Berry and H. C. Lewinsohn, Dose-Response Relationships for Asbestos-Related Disease: Implications for Hygiene Standards, Part I. Morbidity, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1979)
Reprint of a journal article reporting a morbidity study of 392 men who worked at an asbestos textile factory in northern England. It relates estimated dust levels and cumulative exposure to crepitations, lung function, chest radiograph findings and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 24, 1980
H. C. Lewinsohn, J. W. Meigs and M. J. Teta, Draft of 'Malignant Mesothelioma in Connecticut 1935-1977' for the Connecticut Thoracic Society (1980)
A marked-up draft of a paper presented to the Connecticut Thoracic Society on malignant mesothelioma cases in Connecticut from 1935 to 1977. It covers the study methods, descriptive epidemiology, a pathology slide review of reported cases, and a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
P. H. Cooper, J. E. Day, C. A. Kennedy and H. C. Lewinsohn, Dust Control in a Conventional Asbestos Textile Factory, Paper for the 5th International Conference on Pneumoconiosis (1978)
Conference paper by four Raybestos-Manhattan authors describing how dust was reduced at the company's asbestos textile plant at Marshville, using enclosures, exhaust ventilation, wetting of yarns, and work practices. It reviews the history of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 14, 1979
G. Berry and H. C. Lewinsohn, Dose-Response Relationships for Asbestos-Related Disease: Implications for Hygiene Standards, Part I. Morbidity (1979)
Reprint of a journal article reviewing morbidity data from an asbestos textile factory in northern England, relating dust levels and cumulative exposure to crepitations, lung function, chest radiograph findings and 'possible asbestosis'. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1974
Compilation of Lewinsohn Asbestos Health Papers and Related Articles, Including 'Health Hazards of Asbestos: A Review of Recent Trends' (1974)
Exhibit UC-1284 is a bound set of published papers, mostly by or involving H. C. Lewinsohn. It includes his 1974 review of asbestos health hazards, a 1980 IARC discussion summary, a paper on surveillance of asbestos textile workers at TBA, a 1982…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 13, 1960
Lewinsohn, Capel and Smart, Changes in Forced Expiratory Volumes Throughout the Day, British Medical Journal (1960)
Reprint of a 1960 British Medical Journal article reporting spirometry on five healthy men and 16 male patients with obstructive airway disease over a 48-hour hospital stay. It reported that forced expiratory volume (F.E.V.) and forced vital…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
P. H. Cooper, J. E. Day, C. A. Kennedy and H. C. Lewinsohn, Dust Control in a Conventional Asbestos Textile Factory, Raybestos-Manhattan paper for the 5th International Conference on Pneumoconiosis (1978)
Conference paper by four Raybestos-Manhattan authors describing how the company reduced airborne dust in its conventional asbestos textile plant (Marshville) between 1969 and 1978. It reviews the history of asbestos exposure standards, then covers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1980
H. C. Levinsohn, J. W. Meigs and M. J. Teta, 'Malignant Mesothelioma in Connecticut 1935-1977' (Presentation to the Connecticut Thoracic Society, 1980)
Paper presented to the Connecticut Thoracic Society on malignant mesothelioma cases in Connecticut from 1935 to 1977. It describes the study methods, incidence rates, a review of the pathological slides for diagnostic certainty, and the lack of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1980
Lewinsohn, Meigs, Teta and Flannery, The Influence of Occupational and Environmental Asbestos Exposure on the Incidence of Malignant Mesothelioma in Connecticut (1980)
Reprint of a 1980 IARC conference paper re-examining 229 malignant mesothelioma cases in the Connecticut Tumor Registry (1935-1977) to assess occupational and environmental asbestos exposure. It reports a rapid rise in incidence from about 1960,…