184 results for “General Electric”, page 6 of 10
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Lung Cancer In Asbestosis
…expected. These included 11 lung cancer deaths against 0.8 expected; the average risk was of the order of ten times that of the general population. In a series of 1205 lung specimens with dust diseases…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 1958
Daniel C. Braun and T. David Truan, An Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners (1958)
…that they "do not have a significantly higher death rate from lung cancer than do comparable segments of the general population," and that the lung cancer rate did not rise with length or degree of exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1956
Environmental causes of lung cancer
…cancer hazards had been shown for asbestos workers and other occupational groups, with lung cancer attack rates many times those of the general population of the same age and sex. It gave no asbestos-specific figures…
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Article · Motley 1000 · 1955
Richard Doll, Mortality from Lung Cancer in Asbestos Workers (1955)
…years in places where they were exposed to asbestos dust, there were 11 lung cancer deaths where 0.8 would have been expected, a risk he put at about ten times that of the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1950
Asbestos and Pulmonary Cancer - Letters
…findings are reported. The writers proposed two lines of research. One was a statistical survey of workers and the general population in two towns. The other was animal experiments using fibers named as Vimy, J-M…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1954
Effects Of Dusts And Fumes Upon Man
…called atelectasis. They stated that this damage, like that of silicosis, was in general permanent. They added that prolonged exposure to these dusts greatly raised susceptibility to tuberculosis, more so from quartz than from asbestos. They…
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Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)
…Among those workers who Dr. Smith has followed over the last 18 years and who have been exposed only to chrysotile fiber, there have been no more cases of lung cancer than among the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1953
An Evaluation Of Claims For Occupational Factors In Cancer Of The Lungs
…cancers among reported cases, not all workers. From Registrar General death statistics, the author calculated a general-population lung cancer death rate for England and Wales of 1.36, unit likewise lost. A Finnish series of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 23, 1952
Arthur L. Fisk Jr. and Glenn A. Coughlan of Idaho on a Rock Wool Lung Fibrosis Claim (1952)
…an assistant attorney general of Idaho handling a claim against the State Insurance Fund for total disability "allegedly arising from fibrosis of the lungs due to breathing rock wool dust." Fisk enclosed a 1935 article by…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 1, 1952
Arthur L. Fisk Jr. to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway on Skin Irritation from Stonefelt Rock Wool (1952)
…s Legal Department to E. M. Hudgins, general claim agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company in Richmond, Virginia, about complaints of rashes from J-M's Type A Stonefelt insulation, which Fisk describes as…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 7, 1955
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on the Quebec Mining Association's Report (1955)
…earlier the textile makers had turned down an autopsy study because of its implications about cancer (June 1955 general meeting). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 1, 1954
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Minutes on the 1955 Budget (1954)
…M. Jackson reported on the Air Hygiene Committee's projects, with the full report left to the General Meeting minutes. The board approved a 1955 budget of $21,500, the purchase of a new abrasion-testing…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 3, 1954
Dr. David T. DuBow and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Warning Fibrocel Installers About Perlite (1954)
…DuBow tells Dr. Smith that it has been suggested that "the general sales force be alerted with respect to the potential health hazards in the use of expanded perlite." Dr. Smith responds (8/16/54) that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 26, 1959
Dr. David T. DuBow to M. F. Naylor on Releasing Employees' X-Rays to Their Doctors (1959)
…L. Sheckler about how the Medical Department should answer treating physicians who asked to see employees' X-rays. DuBow put the question to the medical departments of six companies: General Motors at Linden, New Jersey, Squibb…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 25, 1954
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Maahs on a Warning for Ring-Tite Lubricant (1954)
…lubricant, used with J-M's Ring-Tite pipe coupling. "In general," Smith wrote, "when a toxic hazard associated with one of our products has been established all employees working in the fields of research, production…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 6, 1950
Dr. Paul Cartier to A. L. Penhale of Asbestos Corporation on the New York Lung Cancer Conference (1950)
…Gloyne (pathologist) as source material. He states that these researchers have found a tenfold increase in the incidence of lung cancer in the asbestotic group when compared with the general population. Cartier points out that conference…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 18, 1956
H. M. Jackson to Schilling on the Travelers Dust Survey of the Manville Pipe Department (1956)
…to Schilling at the Manville plant on a survey of the pipe department in "P" Building made by the Travelers insurance company's laboratory. Jackson writes that the counts "in general" showed adequate control, with exceptions…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 1957
Industrial Hygiene Foundation, An Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners, Report to the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association (1957)
…the Thetford and Asbestos mines in Quebec to discover whether the incidence of lung cancer is greater among asbestos miners than among the general population and whether there is a correlation between lung cancer and asbestosis…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 16, 1959
J. R. M. Hutcheson to G. S. Smith on Dryer Stack Dust Control at Asbestos, Quebec (1959)
…to G. S. Smith at J-M's general headquarters, on controlling dust from the mill's dryer stacks. Hutcheson accepted Smith's appraisal of high-efficiency collectors and a level of 5 tons per day…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1953
Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on the Celite Dust Abatement Program at Lompoc (1953)
…California. Arthur Elsenbast, vice president and general manager of the Celite Division, told the board that before the early 1930s neither industry nor medicine knew that diatomaceous earth dust was a hazard, and that over $1…