FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1952 Apr DOC TALC305 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION IH Digest of April 1952 with Abstract 437 German report of possible Asbestosis in workers Barry Castleman Comments - Industrial Hygiene Digest of April 1952 with Abstract # 437 summarizing a German report that Pneumoconiosis in workers at a cosmetic and medical talc plant looked like Asbestosis KW8-081414 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 19931993 1993 November November November November November Industrial Hygiene Digest November November November November November INDUSTRIAL HEALTH NEWS November LITERATURE ABSTRACTS MEDICAL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ABRAMSABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS TOXICOLOGICAL LEGAL ... decisions and trends ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS APRIL 1952 Vol 16 No. 4 RE RE RE RE RE INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION MELLON INSTITUTE 4400 FIFTH AVENUE : 13 PA PITTSBURGH IN PLAINTIFF’S exhibitsticker.com 03119268 exhibitsticker.com exhibitsticker.com EXHIBIT exhibitsticker.com exhibitsticker.com exhibitsticker.com exhibitsticker.com exhibitsticker.com exhibitsticker.com 1 3˜fi PLAINTIFF’S EXHIBIT > gh " a a industrial to iS at! tt Industrial is F a concerns Hygiene nonprofit holding Foundation association of in membership The Foundation industries for the ! ae Oe INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE HYGIENE of advancement healthful conditions working , INDUSTRIAL YOUKCATION YOUKCATION YOUKCATION as Volume 14 No. 1952 April 4 BOT BOT ADDITIONS NEW The 25 TO MEMBERSHIP FOUNDATION following companies have recently affiliated with the Foundation Copperweld Fostoria Glass Copperweld Steel Co. Chromium Mining & Smelting Corp. Diamond HQ) Company Mathieson Chemical Ltd. Pabst Alkali Co. Brewing Corp. Company nm TALKS BY STAFF MEMBERS 7 C. Dr. Richard Walmer administration of medical Ponsored Managing Director health programs at a by Industrial Relations Counselors training discussion leader 7 to 17. the in industrial of New York Inc. the San Marcos Hotel Chandler Arizona April will discuss course which is He will also relations being held serve as for two seminar groups Mr. W.C.L. Hemeon Engineering Director presented a paper and Use of Equipment in Pollution Measurements at a meeting Design entitled ofthe Pittsburgh UMI Section of the Instrument Society of America held on April 4 FOUNDATION ACQUIRES ADDITIONAL SPACE UMI Ly Mellon Institute has made [oa consisting of two offices a available to the Foundation additional space conference and library room and a small laboratory The Foundation is grateful to the Institute for these supplemental facilities which are needed needed to provide for the expanding program of work and increased personnel INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ´« Q) CONFERENCE oO The FP52 FP52 April Industrial Hygiene Industrial Health Conference 19-26 The entire senior Foundation will be well Ohio staff will attend the meetings and participate in numerous conferences and committee sessions REPRINTS NI represented at the which will be held in Cincinnati AVAILABLE NI NI NI mental Reprints are available.upon request of the paper entitled Experi- Endogenous Lipoid Pneumonia by Dr. Paul Gross Research the Foundation’s Pathologist published in the American Journal of Pathology 28 April INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION 211 H 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 03119270 19 PA MW8-01415 Industrial Hygiene Digest April 1952 0014416 1992 01416 1992 19 219 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1992 Page November November News Items November 0... ce eee teen Occupational Disease Statistics . November November November November November November 2 Legal Developments ieeaseesecuas 3 Industrial Medical Practice 5 Skin Diseases and Burns y Chemical Hazards 9 November November November November 0. eee cece ence . November ’ Industrial Dusts Physical Aspects of the eee 20 ere ener esee 24 Environment Radioactivity and Radiation 28 o8 ABRAMS Environmental Measurements 06 Preventive ABRAMS Engineering eaeeee Community Air Hygiene 30 ~ cases 32 seseee 33 eees 34 Accidents and Prevention 35 Miscellaneous 36 Management Aspects ccc cece eee e ee : RERE .. sececeeees RE RERE RE Index a aaa 37 RE 03119271 April Industrial 1952 EG T Pittsburgh 13 Pennsylvania 4 No. Hygiene Foundation 4400 Fifth Avenue Volume XVI 081417 EGGT INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE DIGEST EGGT Literature and News EGGT EGGT EGGT EGGT AOQUIOAON AOQUIOAON NEWS ITEMS AOQUIOAON AOQUIOAON AOQUIOAON AOQUIOAON 365 Industrial AOQUIOAONAOQUIOAON Toxicology Laboratory DuPont plans to construct AOQUIOAON Industrial $ million Haskell Laboratory of a Delaware Toxicology near Newark This will provide facilities for the company’s industrial toxicological been located at the DuPont is AOQUIOAON Experimental Station since 1935. scheduled to be completed in about -- 366 National Air Pollution California universities deal with a status ABRAMBABRAMB & Air Pollution Eng News March 17 1952 Symposium sponsored by cooperation of the three leading May 5 and 6 will be held Monday and Tuesday Huntington Hotel Pasadena fundamental building Symposium The second National the The year Chem Stanford Research Institute with the at a enlarged laboratory which has California The four sessions will report on knowledge of atmospheric pollutants chemistry and physics of the atmosphere combustion as a contributor to air pollution and biological aspects of air pollution ABRAMB ABRAMB 67 67 State Industrial The Pennsylvania Conference Harrisburg RE RE Safety Conference Pa on Monday and on Industrial Tuesday Safety will be held in May 19 and 20 1952. The Conference will bring together leaders in industry labor and management for a day discussion of essential problems in industrial safety in all RE RE its RE phases Secretary Information can be obtained from Hon Department of Labor and Industry David M. Walker 305 South Office Building Harrisburg Pennsylvania 03119272 368 Conference The . on Public Health Statistics University of Michigan Second Conference on School of Public Health offers the Public Health Statistics for health directors program directors and public health statisticians > June 16 to 20 1952 Industrial * Hygiene Digest - 3 April Abnormalities of humidity Foodstuffs Cyanides Oil and solvent combination exposure 1999 1999 caused 199919 9 glues etc. one 1952 Formaldehyde and Zinc and compounds Plating solutions N.O.C. Soap solutions Sulphur compounds N.O.C. and Synthetic resins and each Acids chemicals caused two each Phenol and phenolic compounds caused four Alkalies and Solvents N.O.C. caused five each and nineteen 1999 caused were Brine Chromic acid ** November by Oils fats and waxes Metal dust and Penicillin caused one each Rubber caused two Synthetic resins caused three Unstated caused November November four and Cutting oils caused six November November November November November DEVELOPMENTS LEGAL November 370 Dermatitis Condition and Procedure November Claimant a laborer had skin a ailment extending over a year The issue of fact was whether period out of his last employment or or not his from previous employment with another The court held that the board’s fact employer present condition grew findings in this regard manifestly against the weight of the evidence Matter of Bernhardt v Wright Corp. would not be disturbed unless and sustained the award Y. 371 Supreme Court Appellate Div recurrence following symptom period naturally out of the employment whether is the term initial an injury Since the claim was filed within one year after the disease recurred injury includes one or a if it arises became wholly disabled in January of 1947 and filed her claim in November of 1947. was an The claimant suffered her second attack of dermatitis in December of 1946 because it January 9 CCH Workers Any attack of an occupational disease a , Compensation Dermatitis Previously Compensated Injury Defined Longshoremen’s and Harbor Recurrence of Third Dept. recurrence an timely and since award of compensation benefits reversed Cadwallader v judgment denying of Columbia Circuit No. Sholl United States Court of Appeals District was them proper and 10,748 January 31 1952. On was -- rehearing . 03119274 os CCH 01419 Industrial 372 4 - Hygiene Digest Independent Contractor of Silicosis-- v The claimant 1992 was 1992 1992 mine 1992 and in this 1992 another contract with the defendant company signed a contract with the defendant company to inspect its mine he November November November Unlike the language previous 15 sets were completed another 60 November November November less furnish the labor look after or contract indicating the claimant After the November more was and obtain waivers of however there was an independent express although the contract only called for record indicates that early in 1949 after the and sets timbering the shaft the shaft was timbered the claimant and others workedina and no contractor the claimant and other miners installed separate and apart from the shaft laid rails in a November November November signed retimber the shaft agreeing to paying of all bills in connection with the labor liens In 1947 he job he was clearly an independent contractor of the company with 15 sets the Work underground miner for 25 years prior to his In 1946 while working for another an disablement from silicosis in 1950. 1992 1952 April raise which did tunnel all under the direction and helped to install a compressor was mucking work supervision of the company’s superintendent November November ~=´« November The claimant also worked for about two months state where he of Colorado manner of performing it had On one a on drift in the control of the kind of work no occasion the claimant or the significantly November November turned in an overtime slip when he worked a double shift Under these the Commission was not being arbitrary and capricious concluding that the contract had been completed and that work elsewhere circumstances in in the mine and in Colorado was contemplated and initiated under an Award affirmed Commission of ABRAMS employer relationship ABRAMS Finance of Utah v ABRAMS No. ABRAMS Silicosis Cutter Three Limitation ABRAMS to 7726 Industrial Commission of Utah 4 January Contraction of ABRAMS Silicosis ABRAMS at the time ABRAMS and a Supreme Court 1952 CCH -- Construed as Disease as an occupational disease under the Act when it manifests itself so granite Utah cutter who was totally as and to interefere with is contracted bodily functions permanently disabled by the ABRAMS beginning of 1949 was not barred by the three limitation when there was evidence to show that he had had the disease as early as disease at the : INRE INRE 1944 but had not been affected by it Minnesota Supreme Court No. 20 Yeager v Delano Granite Works February 29 1952 - CCH INRE INRE INRE INRE INRE Silicosis Cutter Exposed to Dust for Less Than Two Years During Year Period Prior to Last INRE Exposure to Rehabilitation Benefits INRE INRE Unless an employee not actually disabled but found to be affected by silicosis has been exposed to the inhalation of silica dust in North Carolina for at least 2 years within exposure he not Carolina Granite eligible for Corp. the year period prior to his last rehabilitation benefits North Carolina Supreme Court Midkiff v North Feb. 27 1952 CCH . 03119275 MWB8-01420 Industrial Hygiene Digest - 5 1952 April INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL 01421 PRACTICE 1993 375 Education for Graduate 1993 Medicine T. November November A Physicians in Industrial Health and Occupational Report of Current Graduate Education in Nine Universities Ind Mallery Jr. Despite the Med & Surg.21 101-105 1952 March | several available curriculums which allow the earning degree time study of selected subjects short courses or fellowships in the field only a limited number of physicians are presently engaged in graduate study In the various universities offering a degree of a November November November basically similar and plant training is required In most cases the graduate training now New methods available is of recent origin and is still undergoing revision and plans for graduate education are being actively sought Cond from Author’s Summary the didactic studies November as November November are part of graduate study -- 376 Orientation of the New Employee by the Health Division of an Atomic J.S. Energy Research Laboratory Four Review Med & Surg 21 107-110 March 1952 Felton Ind ABRAMS ABRAMS The components of an orientation program for ABRAMS ABRAMS atomic energy research the laboratory are reviewed Health Division is discussed in detail inception of the program a total of 1535 individuals ABRAMS The course ABRAMS ABRABRAMS MS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS : In four years since the the Laboratory for to of the total health effort has been plotted more and more on a goal the realization of work as a Other changes in program format including satisfying experience colored visual aids and the distribution of a pamphlet on mental health are described Advantages accruing to the new employee are mental health approach ABRAMS employees at an presentation of presentations have been given to employment 129 separate reporting new and the which has as its for all discussed -- Cond from Author’s Summary : RE 377 RE RE Economics of Industrial Ohio State Med J. Ophthalmology 47 654 July I.H. Stolzar 1951 RE In Ohio in 1949 19 filed were for eye injuries The author outlines a of the total of 270,000 including compensation claims 170 claims for total loss of vision program for industrial visual hygiene Workers IN ININ IN should be subjected to a complete ophthalmologic examination should include tests of muscle balance and visual field incipient eye diseases can be detected in an examination should be continuous preemployment yeh The program and annual examinations cime Vio Many which active and are a 03119276 Industrial Hygiene 6 - Digest April 1952 0014422 0014422 0014422 866T 866T standards should be set for the various tasks necessity Visual employees should be abilities All assigned only to tasks consistent with their wear safety goggles but uncomfortable 866T sessions and posters 866T of such program will be 866T performance 378 Novembe E.L. Steinberg Novembe waste have followed the Novembe vision Novembe muscular balance a eye hazards should be employees subject to will aid glasses will not be worn Lecture The expense justified by general improvement in employee Cond Your Small Plant from Arch Hyg & Occ Med Why Not Maint Factory Mgmt Ind 110 110-112 Part I Feb. 1952 Novembe Novembe Even in small plants benefits from increased production and less adoption of vision tests and measures to improve Only five basic visual skills usually need to be measured visual acuity depth perception field of vision Three types of instruments for Novembe color vision Novembe the ortho rater and the Novembe trial telebinocular can 379 Workers and Working Sabatova and M. 135 ABRAM ABRAM women Jensi M. June 1951 available and the indus- Conditions in a Glass Fiber Factory Pracovni Pantucek Czechoslovakian light should be done mostly by There is no danger of pneumoconiosis and when the protective The work is glass factory measures and personal hygiene are maintained the work hazards with methyl alcohol trichloroethylene and formaldehyde are limited to a ABRAM minimum ABRAM observation ABRAM ABRAM to necessary mainly It is necessary to A medical with cooperate as keep the employees under continuous not sufficient it is follow is however with the management many workers from the the workshops workers committee as . ABRAM - : Skin Cancer of the Hand and Forearm RE A. RE and The authors examined the workers and the working conditions of a RE are purchased V. : ABRAM be Examination of Lekarstvi 3 ABRAM sight screener can only be rented J. Jindrichiva vision tests Gourevitch Brit J. Ind Med 9 Arch January Med 1952 epithelioma patients investigation possible Hyg & Occ investigation of the patients treated for epithelioma of the hand and forearm at the United Birmingham Hospitals during the period 1941An 1950 is reported indicating a high The results agree with those incidence of this type of cancer previously obtained in among workers exposed IN ININ and Cruickshank and C.N. 74-79 Ind significantly large proportion occurs among metal workers who are exposed to oil The findings are compared with those of a previous similar investigation of scrotal cancer It is the responsibility of industrial medical officers to ensure minimal exposure to carcinogenic to oils A | agents 0311927 0014422 0014422 visual required to greatly in employee education -- Vision Tests for and MWBB MWBB MWBB Industrial Hygiene Digest 381 7 et 197-199 Hyg 9 1952 April Tomography in Anthracosilicosis Sociale 1993 - 0 14 23 D. Belayew Arch Belges Med June 1951 In French 1993 1993 1993 The value of tomography was tested with 200 Belgian coal miners 1993 1993 It has 1993 are several more advantages over ordinary The shadows ray procedure the distribution of the nodules in pneumoconiosis is opaque more coalescing areas is frequently brought to light a diagnosis of pronounced emphysema was frequently brought to light Tomography opens up an unexplored field extensive the existence of voluminous nodules and 1993 regarding the bronchial tree revealing thickness in the walls of the November November branches November or narrowing or enlargement which would otherwise pass unobserved -- from Bull Cond Hyg November November November 382 November The Association of Varicose Veins with H.O. Wisc McPheeters Complications varicose veins may November for Med that may cause J. Industry 50 997 October or that are hazard in industry develop from them to be a 1951 large industrial plants will not accept for employment varicose veins while others will take large normal veins Directions are regard to compensation aspects an a associated with Many examiners a person who has chance that the veins are just given for adequate examination With injury that would be of little consequence normally may aggravate preexisting conditions and thus become serious compensable -- Cond from Arch Ind Hyg & Occ and Med ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS SKIN ABRAMS DISEASES AND BURNS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS 383 Industrial Dermatoses E. ABRAMS Traub and D. September 1 insurance carriers RERE Suggestions for Improvement New York J. Med 51 2005 feel that better cooperation between and lesions would eliminate RE Jr. 1951 The authors RE and the Law Schultheis employers physicians treating patients with industrial skin They stress many of the present shortcomings thorough examinations and accurate reports 2 learning how to testify properly 3 avoidance of solicitation accurate appraisal of disability and treatment only by the following points 1 careful histories properly adjusted fees 5 trained personnel in responsible positions 6 first examinations by physicians paid by the specialists 4 carriers to determine whether the case is compensable and 7 formation of a board of three unbiased dermatologists opinions on medical testimony should be -- Cond whose binding from Arch on suggestions and the referee Ind Hyg & Occ Med 03119278 MWB 384 8 - Industrial Hygiene Digest April 1952 The Problem of Consecutive Complicating Eruptions in Industrial Medicine New York J. Med 51. 2015 September 1 1951 Emerson G.F. 1993 The first of the two 1993 in 1944 in the vats solutions contained 1993 1993 After month at this work one months after the dermatitis November under the November has November This raise skin lesion was The Will the -- 148 A question or to the Am The RERE RE prints weak Ind on Med 1952 printing shop been eliminated He is Are patch Type metal may cause dermatitis in dermatitis in printers is more likely to performed with the metallic sub- but not with the solvents Queries and Minor Notes March 8 1952 by the chromic acid preparation Greasy barrier creams transfer finger- caused engraving industry product tartrate approach is through frequent lavings in % sodium hyposulfite weak ascorbic acid The best such as solutions permitted to be exposed important & Occ Queries and Minor Notes He handles hot lead in the hands reducing agents or Hyg question is whether there is any protective measure against to the citrate welding heat burn in patient has contact dermatitis on the volar 148 877 Assn the irritant effect used in the summer compound and later with Arch Patch tests may be with the inks Med a various alkalies and solvents used to clean the Chromium Dermatitis J. The dermatosis during the employer in whose plant the original March 1 However susceptible persons or she has been practitioners for varying several foods these have slightly sensitive to AN type and presses ABI 782 tests with lead advisable stances stopped work two acquired be liable for later doctor hospital and Assn be due to inks the number of questions concerned with workmen’s a surface of the forearms MS who Apparently Since that time worse Printing Materials and Contact Dermatitis Am Med woman Are such patients entitled to free treatment of skin lesions medicine bills ? J. She who suffered treated with a sulfonamide compensation November November November first appeared and the other one for the rest of their lives November electroplating a frequently wet her hands and forearms dermatitis appeared on the exposed parts continuously and is to date patient was penicillin a that of Treatment has included roentgen therapy persisted 1949 and used in of dermatologists and general care intervals presented here is face and neck became involved also and later the November November cases exposed to chemicals was No worker with open lesions should be Individual susceptibility and sensitization are rarely practical but spontaneous Planned desensitization is desensitization occurs commonly 03119279 01424 Industrial Hygiene 387 April Condensation Plastics E. 1992 1992 1992 1992 9 - Digest Morris Arch 1952 Their Ind Dermatological and Chemical Aspects Hyg & Occ Med 5 37-43 Jan. 1952 Dermatitis caused in the manufacture of plastics comprises about 1992 1992 % of the practice of the industrial dermatologist The completely polymerized finished plastics are dermatologically inert 1992 should be 1992 1992 acquainted The physician with the chemicals that the worker handles chemistry of the condensation plastics is The presented --Author’s Summary November November 388 November Occupational Leukodermia from Rubber Dust and Debris J. A.L. Goldberg Arch Dermatol Syphilol 64 441-443 July Oliver November and Warren Schwartz Zakon and 1951 1939 observed a IHF Abst 851 number of patients colored with leukoderma due to contact with rubber The causative factor in the rubber said to be was traced to agarite which is and antioxidant used in the monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone The author observed nine cases of leukoderma in manufacture of rubber who worked asbestos white patients were covered with dust and debris on pads and whose nails face rubber containing agarite and feet particles Apparently a number of factors are needed to produce occupational November November leukoderma perhaps an These are agarite and alkaline skin reaction alcohol type of sweat -- Biol and Absts ABRAMS CHEMICAL HAZARDS ABRAMS ABRAMS 389 Occupational Effects of Selenium Arbeitsschutz 1 102 E. Holstein Zentr Arbeitsmed & In German September 1951 Holstein discusses in general the chemical properties of selenium ABRAMS and of its the extent to which they may be adsorbed in the by the human body and selenium poisoning of employed in the glass ceramic and rubber industries and in forms of dust and vapors workers RE compounds the manufacture of photoelectric Symptoms and signs apparatus condensators and rectifiers of selenium poisoning are described RE RE -- Arch RE Ind Hyg & Occ Med IN IN The measure of a man’s real character is what he if he knew he would never would do be found out -- Thomas B. Macaulay 03119280 MWB8-01425 Industrial 390 Hygiene Digest 10 - Sulfur Dioxide Hazards Erdol Kohle u 4 569 R. Freitag 579 1951 April 1952 per Per- German 3661 3661 Tolerance to sulfur dioxide is 36 1 3661 that are sons hypersensitive Animal experiments gave the presence ducing high 0.1 should not be death 3-5 mg to 0.12 permitted mg to work in its following results per .; later death 1.4-1.7 mg quickly profor 1/2 to per 1. 36613661 JOQUIOAONJOQUIOAON one hour 0.4-0.5 mg tolerated per 1. An accident in a per 1 probably fatal 0.17-0.64 mg sulfite cellulose factory JOQUIOAON is mentioned -- Chem Absts JOQUIOAOJOQUIOAON N JOQUIOAON J. JOQUIOAON November JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON Rizzolo and M. P.F. Dickens Bayliss U.S. Armed Forces Med J. 2 1609-1617 Treatment of Nerve Casualties JOQUIOAON J.R. Wood 1951 JOQUIOAON The a nerve gases are a group of highly toxic chemical agents having physiologic action like but much more prolonged than They are readily absorbed through the respiratory tract JOQUIOAON ABRAMSABRAMS the skin the induced by tract Symptoms gastrointestinal incapacitating begin immediately and progress at a rapid rate This paper considers the toxicity and pharmacology of the gases the symptoms and diagnosis of poisoning first aid measures and treatment Casualties contaminated with liquid nerve gases endanger unprotected personnel and handlers of such patients should wear protective rubber aprons and gloves so long as there is any skin or clothing contact with the liquid agent A gas eyes JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON and the physostigmine or lethal doses mask is essential A number of other precautions are discussed ABRAMS A Case of Med ABRAMS Optic Atrophy due to Delayed Lead Poisoning 42 187-191 May 1951 In Italian C. Soprana Lavoro A workman subjected to lead exposure for six months each noticed some weakness of five periods of about eyesight which became ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS : RE Optic nerve atrophy was found in both eyes magnesium sulfate to mobilize This result strongly supported lead porphyrinuria set in within 24 hours serious four years later with no apparent the view that the RE RE cause On injection of optic atrophy was a late effect of past lead poisoning Cond from Bull Hyg -- RE Determination of O. Frank and V. Porphyrins in Urine of Workers in Industries Using Lead Lachnit Wien Z. inn Med 32 413 Sept. 1951 In German The authors tested the use of Langen and tenBerg’s method for determining an increase of urinary coproporphyrins in 715 workers in lead industries including plumbers lead founders painters color grinders enamel burners and was compositors observed in 17 workers and a A slightly increased porphyrin excretion more pronounced increase in 12. 03119281 Limit 01426 Industrial Hygiene Digest values and 11 - April results positive The maximum value found were was determinations checked by quantitative Of the workers with 1.5 mg 1952 slightly BCCI BCCI BCCI BCCI increased porphyrin BC I no one presented signs of lead poisoning of two exhibited symptoms those with pronouncedly increased porphyrinuria Sporadic basophilically stippled erythrocytes were demonstrated in blood streak of three workers preparations of increased lead subjective or clinical evidence No found in the other workers was With the reservation BCCI BCCI BCCI JOQULJOQULOAON OA N that other diseases may be the described method is rapid for increased responsible of lead workers particularly -- Ind from Arch Cond porphyrin excretion suitable for serial examinations Hyg & Occ Med JOQULOAON JOQULOAON JOQULOAON JOQULOAON 394 Effect of Sodium and Zirconium Citrates on Distribution and Excretion of Marcia R. J. Schubert and Injected Radiolead Med 260-266 February 1952 39 White J. Lab Clin The results described in this paper indicate that the citrate ion has little or distribution JOQULOAON effect no the immediate blood on disappearance However in excretion of lead in rats or with carrier amounts of lead labeled with radio lead citrate caused JOQULOAON over the first 24 hours and 395 decrease in the a Lung Carcinoma in Nickel Workers Laegefor No. 11 refs injected 375 1950 zirconium P—– threefold increase in the radiolead a organ excreted during kidney concentration A.C. Lˆ‚ken Tidsskr Norske In Norwegian pulmonary cancer in workers of a nickel refinery patients were treated in the same surgical department Three cases of are ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS mentioned The period of time No other cases of pulmonary cancer had diagnosed among the rest of the workers at the nickel refinery The workers are not and have not been exposed to nickel concerned within a short been and fumes of nickel and carbonyl but have been exposed to dust nickel compounds -- Exposure to Silver Dust J. Am Med Assn 148 Arch Ind Hyg some & Occ other Med Queries and Minor Notes 781 March 1 1952 ABRAMS : : Some : RE employees in factory are exposed several days per year to dust and occasionally to skin contact with concentrations of silver RE high RE RE urine and the The query silver nitrate salts to are methods of estimating silver in the damage toxic and fatalities have occurred silver per and possibility concerns of systemic se reply is that silver properties of the salts argyria silver ion is regarded as harmless A roughly Apart from the possible dermatitis the The which may not be attributable toxic quantitative method for determining silver in urine is described but it has no great diagnostic value 03119282 Candidate A person who stands for what he thinks the will fall for --- people Outdoor Industry MW8-01427 Industrial 397 Vanadium C661 C661 C661 C661 C661 C661 12 April 1952 Poisoning from Cleaning Fired Boilers Brit Williams N. - Hygiene Digest J. Ind 9 50-55 Jan. Med 801428 1952 Vanadium is found in crude oil ash in varying percentages depending on the source of the oil 45 in Venezuelan and in Iranian 14 Vanadium intoxication in oils but much smaller in most American oils eight men cleaning fired burners with no dust control or protection The method of investigation of the original complaints the is described preventive measures instituted and the results achieved are discussed JOqQWOLON The JOqQWOLON JOqQWOLON coating principal symptoms were JOqQWOLON JOqQWOLON JOqQWOLON JOqQWOLON JOqQWOLON JOqQWOLON on the tongue In severe coughing fatigue cases some and a greenish vanadium was found in the urine abnormality was found in chest rays electrocardiograms analysis Successful preventive measures included doing part of the cleaning from outside the boiler use of a water spray in dismantling brick walls and the use of respirators but no other or A urine Study of the Conditions Hazard in 19-31 JOqQWOLON Industry G. January 1952 slow Owing to the May Exert Brit J. Under Which Methanol Leaf and L.J. Zatman a Ind Toxic Med 9 elimination of methanol from the exposures may result in accumulation and therefore a body repeated toxic hazard The absorption and elimination of methanol were studied in man and checked by animal experiments ABRAMS ABRAMSABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS approximately proportional to concentration and duration of exposure The of elimination is proportional to the concentration in the body Only about is eliminated via the respiratory and urinary routes It rate was concluded that exposure to 3,000 ppm for ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS Over short periods the amount of methanol appears to be thus give eight hours rise to a methanol vapor concentration of about a day may cause accumulation in the body and a A maximum safe limit of 300 ppm toxic hazard suggested -- Cond is from Authors Summary ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS Absorption Distribution ABRAMS D.D. ABRAMS chloride J. and Elimination of By Monkeys Upon Exposure to Low McCollister Pharmacol & W.H. Beamer G.J. Exper Therap 102 Radioactive Carbon Tetra- Vapor Concentrations Atchison and 112-124 H.C. Spencer 1951 : RE RE Rhesus RE RE RE RERE carbon 30 C14 monkeys inhaled air containing 46 of the inhaled carbon tetrachloride was absorbed RE concentration of deposited radioactive material IN ppm of radioactive labeled carbon tetrachloride for 139-300 minutes the concentration in the blood exhaled carbon dioxide and was The in the fat About highest 7.94 times C14 was found in the blood carbonate urinary urea and carbonate Most of the radioactivity in the urine appeared to be present in a nonvolatile fraction other than urea on carbonate or resin and exchange by acid hydrolysis stance - amino acids was The This material was retained converted to another unidentified sub- equivalent of at least 51 of the absorbed 03119283 . Industrial Hygiene Digest 13 - carbon tetrachloride The remainder April eliminated in the was excreted to was a expired air within 1952 1800 hours extent in the urine and feces large In 1992 skin exposures monkeys receiving 19 2 for four hours the blood and 400 negligible amounts of radioactive material were found in -- Chem Absts expired air Pathological Report of Eight Cases of Methyl Bromide Poisoning Brit Ind Med J.H. Prain and H. Smith 9 44-49 Feb. 1952 A poisoning by the inhalation of methyl bromide are described in an incident in which eight boys were exposed to the vapor The main clinical features and mortem findings six of whom died November November November radioactive carbon tetrachloride vapor The results of November November to November are November and note given the survivors two years after the accident on -- Authors November Summary November November 401 Study of the Toxicology of Trichloroethylene Contribution to the II Results of Animal Ind Med 9 R. Fabre and R. Truhaut Experiments 1952 French Brit J. February 39-43 Both trichloroethylene and trichloracetic acid derived from it are deposited in the endocrine glands kidneys brain blood and most of all in the This localization agrees with nervous symptoms trichloroethylene and to a less spleen and lungs November observed in poisoning In the blood extent trichloracetic acid are fixed in the red fixation explains the accumulation in the spleen the transformation into trichloracetic acid ABRAMS eliminated ABRAMS in rapidly corpuscies expired air and urine This elective Sodium fluoride inhibits Trichloroethylene is while trichloracetic acid disappears much more slowly by the urinary route ABRAMS -- 402 402 Soucek Pracovni Lekarstvi 3 The authors were 124 from Summary Krejck Z. Marlo and June 1951 Czechoslovakian Experimental Carbon Disulfide Poisoning B. Cond F. able to confirm that in rats and rabbits exposed containing 800 and 1500 gamma of liter of air the blood is saturated very rapidly with for two to six hours at atmospheres carbon disulfide per this ABRAMS in compound approximately one carbon disulfide in the blood reaches coefficient of 2-3 Other hours of exposure The : RE RE RE RE RE hours concentration of exposure the given by a division body tissues are not saturated even after six fatty tissues retain carbon disulfide to a consider- degree intestinal fat about three times as much as subcutaneous fat All fatty tissues retain the compound tenaciously and release it slowly able The tissues of the nervous peripheral nerves tically IN at most two a observations This distribution When the tissues desaturate at then the them as nervous Cia exposed the brain the spinal cord and the differently and characteris- system > eee em eS corresponds well with clinical animals varying rates during saturation ok : OO i.e. The relation of the contents of free carbon disulfide in these tissues is 4.5 fat system retain the carbon disulfide most The same - Cond are left in the open air their then the quickly from the blood equilibrium is maintained between from Arch Ind Hyg & Occ Med 03119284 01429 Industrial 403 Hygiene Digest 14 - Three Cases of Chromic Myeloid Leukemia Due to Benzene and S. Tara Arch 1952 April Maladies Profess 399-404 1951 12 J. Bousser French 1992 1992 One of the 1992 The 1992 presented is an example of retarded benzolism cases had worked for six years in an atmosphere containing considerable man fumes symptoms did not appear until two years later Benzene was found in the blood with low red cell and very high 148,000 amounts of benzene 1992 1992 per similar blood effects November In the other cases benzene mm white cell counts cu occurred while the November medical of the supervision Such 30,000 November November November Radiotherapy count is a interpreted case one as a white count over exposed and under from 10,000 up to moved sign of medullary irritation and The may be the forerunner of aplastic anemia a were and transfusion were effective in two The white cell count in cases men poisoning with opinion is expressed that 10,000 should call for removal from all exposure benzene fumes -- Cond from Bull to Hyg November Severe Corneal and Conjunctival Injuries of the Palebral Fissure Area in November M. July Over cases 75-80 1 a Zent Krahnstover Hydroquinone Workers Arbeitsschutz Arbeitsmed In German 1951 period of 20 years the author has examined about a dozen injury among workers for a firm manufacturing hydroon the cornea and conjunctiva are described in detail of ocular Effects quinone generally healed without sequelae but three cases resulted in permanent severe reduction of visual acuity in spite of surgical The less ABRAMS ABRAMS severe Preventive treatment J. measures are recommended --Cond from Bull Studies of Orthophenylphenol Toxicological E.A. cases H.C. Hodge Spencer V.K. Rowe Exptl Therap 104 202-210 February 1952 Maynard H.J. Blanchet Pharmacol Dowicide F Hyg H.C. Jr. Orthophenylphenol has a low acute oral toxicity for male rats the LD50 found was 2.7 kg Neither a % solution in sesame oil nor a 0.1 ABRAMS aqueous solution of the sodium salt caused either irritation or skin sensitization in human two years on diets primary skin Rats maintained for subjects containing up to 0.2 phenylphenol showed no adverse effects but when the diet contained % of the material it caused slight :RE retardation of RE small amounts of RE RE RE RE growth histological kidney changes and the presence of phenylphenol in the kidney tissue Dogs showed no adverse effects from diet containing 0.5 g per kg per day of phenylphenol over a period of one year -- Cond from Summary Poisoning in Tunnel Worker G. Seland 46 1170-1171 August 1 1951 Swedish Trinitrotoluene Nord Med After 15 years work as a tunneler a year old man developed It had been his habit to one year aplastic The anemia and in his T. pockets carry explosive charges containing anemia which led to death in symptoms were of the poisoning other same type -- as those found in trinitrotoluene Author’s English Summary Bull 03119285 Hyg 01438 Industrial Hygiene Digest 407 A Tetryl Toxicity 15 - April Summary of Ten Years Experience B. Bergman Arch Ind Hyg briefly reviewed & Occ Med 5 10-20 Jan. CE6I CE6I CE6I CE6I CE6I 1952 history the properties and the manufacture of tetryl are The CE6I 1952 The sum of 10 years experience with this explosive in relation to the toxic reactions is that during this tetryl was encountered The most troublesome reaction was the skinsensitization phenomenon Epidermal discoloration and effects on the CE6I CE6I presented It is most worthy of noting period no case of suspected constitutional poisoning due to JOQUIOAON respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal system discussed and are JOQUIOAON method of handling the JOQUIOAONJOQUIOAON patients is The importance of presented hematopoietic JOQUIOAON or cardiovascular symptoms were of examining neurological The hygenic observed and the problems associated with tetryl handling are reviewed JOQUIOAON importance workers before work and limiting exposure is stressed JOQUIOAON -- JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON No recognizing psychoneurosis in tetryl workers is noted JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON a JOQUIOAON Author’s Summary JOQUIOAON 408 JOQUIOAON Methemoglobinemia of Acute Aniline Intoxication in Experimental Animals and Human L. Cyanosis and Anemia Due Beings Ghiringhelli and C. Four shoes dyed cases of Molina Med Lavoro to Heinz Bodies 42 125 acute poisoning from aniline dye black with aniline are described In these Apr. 1951 Italian through the use cases the methemoglobin reached the level of 17 to 26 gm per 100 cc of hemoglobin The results of experimental poisoning in dogs by means of subcutaneous ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS injection of 30 mg./kg of aniline of aniline were also ABRAMS reported or intravenous injection of 10 mg./kg With the subcutaneous methemoglobinemia which varied from 29 to 68 injection a methemoglobinemia of 19.26 was injection a and with intravenous obtained In both the cases ABRAMS ABRAMS of poisoning in man and those of experimental poisoning the cyanosis was ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS corpuscles a few hours after poisoning They increased in number even after methemoglobin had disappeared from the blood In all cases a slight anemia appeared which was not related to the intensity of the methemoglo- methemoglothe ABRAMS ABRAMSABRAMS : 0409 0409 0409 RERE RE RE RE proportional to the degree of methemoglobinemia The methemoglobine disappeared rapidly from the blood Heinz bodies were observed in the red RE binemia but to the abundance of Heinz bodies --Arch Ind Hyg & Occ Med Carcinogenic Studies on Carbamate Ind Med & W.C. Hueper Surg 21 71-74 February 1952 carbamate is being manufactured for use as a weed killer in dust form Its possibility as a carcinogenic agent was studied The observations made in the different experiments in mice and The observation rats support the negative results reported by Larsen time covered the greater part of the life span of the animals chemical was administered by three different routes a and the It is pointed out that carcinogenic reaction in man has not entirely been excluded 03119286 01431 Industrial 410 An Bonser D.B. 1992 August 18 19922 1952 April into the Experimental Inquiry M. 1992 1992 16 Hygiene Digest Clayson and Cause of Industrial J.W. Jull Lancet 01432 Bladder Cancer 261 286-288 1951 naphthol conjugates have been identified in the urine of species after the administration of purified naphthylamine and other dogs The dye intermediate known to be a bladder carcinogen in man and the dog approximate correlation between the amounts of the conjugates in the urine a 1992 and the incidence of mbor bladder tumors in different species provides a possible explanation of the observed differing species susceptibilities mbor naphthol hydrochloride mbor mbor the mouse tested for local action has been found to be a on the bladder carcinogen of the same mbor as potency mbor -- methylcholanthrene amino epithelium of order of Authors Summary mbor BY Drea 1 The Toxicology of W. ’G Ferguson Cass and J.S. Am J. Tropical Med 519-522 1951 31 AONI Dieldrin and Its Bearing on Field Use of the Compound Jr. F.F. Hayes Judging from experiments on nine species of laboratory animals skin contamination of man with concentrates of the insecticide dieldrin AONI spraying might would be hazardous minor skin contamination with emulsions used in be tolerated without demonstrable damage Crystalline by the unabraded skin almost or quite as readily as solutions in organic solvents The effects on animals are listed they are dieldrin is absorbed il ee vite mostly neurological disorders Animals killed show lesions sufficient to death cause injury has been found in No workmen on limited operational programs It appears dieldrin can be used safely as an outside residual spray only by appropriately trained personnel Cond -- Selective Herbicides and Growth Substances the Manufacture of the Ester of 2,4 During Profess ABR ABR 12 26-30 1951 Workers ABR ABR by dieldrin do not usually from Biol Absts Pathologic Effects on Man Arch Mal M. Assouly French employed in the manufacture of an ester of dichloro- phenoxyacetic acid complain of somnolescence with heaviness of the legs irritation of the upper respiratory passages gastralgia with loss of appetite of a sweet taste in the mouth with increased salivation of drunkenness them to RE RE was ingested RE intoxication Tissue Te or sensation hypersensitivity of hearing the least sound causing and In animal jump a experimentation it was shown that when 2,4 injected intravenously high doses were required to produce -- Biol Absts Distribution Accumulation and Elimination of the Isomers of Benzene Hexachloride Exptl Biol mainly in the Med B. Davidow and P. 76 780-783 April Frawley tissue of both rats and adipose ; Soc 1951 The four isomers of benzene hexachloride occurs in other tissues Proc dogs The gamma isomer was were found to be stored but some storage also found to be the most 03119287 Industrial Hygiene Digest 17 - toxic after single doses The chronic toxicity . 414 but the beta isomer has the toxicity Blood Cholinesterase Levels in Workers J.M. October 6 Barnes and D.R. Exposed Davies phosphorus insecticides November November direct from Bull Hyg Phosphorus Med J. 2 816-819 Brit and men November November to a 1951 The cholinesterase levels of 80 November Cond -- 1952 highest chronic of each isomer appears to bear storage in the adipose tissue relation to Insecticides 1992 April in the field or women exposed to factory have been determined Three criteria of departure from normal variation of enzyme levels have been described On the basis of these standards abnormal variations which probably attributable to insecticide absorption have been recognized in The departures from normality were very slight No serious case of poisoning was observed These observations emphasize the value are November 12 individuals of the test poisoning 415 November November significance in relation to the incidence of insecticide and their in field and factory workers is discussed Health Hazards Associated with the Use of with Parathion December The with Am Ingram Ind Summary Airplanes for Dusting Crops Hyg Assn Quart 12 165-170 1951 of aircraft for use particular parathion F.R. Authors -- applying insecticides to crops is described reference to California’s in dusting with experience Atmospheric samples represented only potential exposures ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS since ABRAMS gas mask a for The tests constitute estimating the efficiency of protection measures temporary change in work status described practices Individual safe are ABRAMS ABRAMS Arch Ind RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RERE & Occ Hyg The : W. Deichmann Med 5 recommending W. 44-51 are recommended Cond Effects of Dimethyl and Diethyl Paranitrophenyl mental Animals valuable basis a and for Methods and results of the tests -- 416 activity levels were Blood cholinesterase worn determined at fifteen intervals ABRAMS from Author’s Summary Thiophosphates on Experi- Pugliese and J. Cassidy January 1952 toxicity of dimethyl paranitrophenyl phosphate was compared with that of the corresponding diethyl compound parathion in animal The toxicity of both compounds is increased by some solvents and decreased by others A high degree of purification removes experiments impurities which are toxic than the compounds studied The dimethyl compound recognized that the dimethyl compound and its formulations are highly toxic The safety more is less toxic than the diethyl form but it must be parathion should be applied with equal vigor to containing the dimethyl homologue Exposure by skin contact inhalation or ingestion must be carefully avoided measures recommended for insecticidal preparations - Cond from Authors Summary 03119288 a % FR y rn aan west | Fe . 0143 Industrial 417 - 18 April Tricresylphosphate in Soft Igelit W. 1992 Hygiene Digest Borgmann and G.A. Hunold Z. Percutaneous 1952 MW8-01434 Action Toxic Hyg Infektionskrank 133 26-44 German 1951 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 November Tricresylphosphate under the food name of Igelit is used to soften polyvinyl preparation tubing and wrapping material for Technical tricresylphosphate is a used for flexible products and other materials mixture of its three isomers ortho form chloride a of which the ortho form is most toxic comprises 30 of the commercial preparation November with rabbits showed that the November the intact skin phosphate can definitely be absorbed through Particulars of the experiments and of the November November the poison November animal and are It fully presented vegetable fats can was dissolve appreciable amount of an tricresylphosphate November used for the manufacture of articles which may from softened pathological results of also found that human sweat and November November The Experiments Such Igelit material should not be a in contact with come the skin -- Cond from Bull November Hyg - November November Polyneuritis due to Parathion November Arbeitsschutz A 1 case H. Petry Zent Arbeitsmed July 1951 German 86-89 of polyneuritis in a worker with extensive exposure to parathion spray without respiratory protection is described led to only partial recovery -- ABRAM Toxic Chemicals in Agriculture ABRAM Fisheries ABRAM ABRAM by the Working Toxic Chemicals Used in on Agriculture This report calls attention insecticides additional practices ABRAM extensive summary of the report ABRAM Committee on Pesticides of the M. Med Occ RE Relative RE W.J. Stationery to fatalities ABRAM ABRAM Bull Hyg Precautionary Measures Against M. ABRAM ABRAM from Report to the Minister of Agriculture and Committee considers the Cond Treatment protective Office resulting from the use of measures now in and recommends especially in protective clothing and sanitation An abstracted from the Bulletin of the is given in Arch Ind Hyg & 5 174-176 February 1952 Toxicity of Insecticides Hayes Jr. Soap & Sanit W. Chem RE Simmons and 27 148-150 Dec. 1951 RE A tabulation of accidental deaths caused by chemicals IN ININ over the past poisoning occupies a minor place as a cause of death and 2 that there has been no significant change in the rate ten years shows that 1 chemical of fatal chemical accidents IN and other chemicals This in spite of the introduction of new insecticides Pesticides account for only % of chemical fatalities good safety record is due in part to intelligent enforcement of federal and state legislation campaings The toxicity of Proper vigilance will reduce the and in part to educational the various types of pesticides is reviewed number of cases of poisoning poisoning 03119289 Industrial 421 Hygiene Digest Insecticides 19 - Rodenticides 1992 Washington 25. D.C. 1992 This is selected list of pesticides which play an a Sciences , 1952 important role their common synonyms or trade names giving chemical names and formulae together with notes on their mammal This list was prepared by a subcommittee at the request of the toxicity 1992 Air Force field personnel and has been November November Sanitary Engineering November workers in the field November Division of Medical Reprinted in Modern San 4 21-23 Mar. health activities in public 1992 422 approved by the Committee on and Environment for distribution to all interested Toxicology and Hazard Record of the Newer Pesticides F. November November 1952 1952 Fumigants Employed in Public Health and National Research Council Activities 1992 April Princi Chemicals Agr 7 44-47 97-103 1952 Jan. November The author discusses difficulties inherent in the assessment of toxicity of pesticides results of animal For instance toxicity November It has been demonstrated many times that the experimentation cannot give reliable evidence dogs but there are no known cases of human poisoning November November has failed to show in animals the beryllium body The only conclusive evidence then clinical same On the other hand effects toxicity on experience and reports of poisonings the other The as to have been cases mostly from either accidental on man the human rests upon of poisoning by organic phosphates organic mercury compounds hydrocarbons human on nitrogen trichloride has been found injurious to and chlorinated purposeful ingestion or from other accidental exposure involving gross carelessness ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS particularly true of DDT That is ABRAMS In the use of on or which the reports are fullest evidence of poisoning of quantities pesticides resulting from their use with ordinary care is almost nonexistent ABRAMS enormous ABRAMS ABRAMS these materials no There foundation for the sensational adverse publicity that has been given is ABRAMS 423 ABRAMS A Contribution to the G. Mancioli Study of Med Rass Allergic Rhinitis of Ind 20 21-37 Occupational Origin Jan. 1951 Italian ABRAMS Three cases of allergic rhinitis were workers exposed to chromate mists the : skin test RE by RE mills RE a only The author and found a diagnosis of allergy was confirmed employed in flour dso examined 32 persons positive allergic six appear to have found among 22 chromium reaction to finely ground grain but suffered from vasomotor rhinitis RE -~ Cond from Bull Hyg IN IN 424 Why Oxygen Pressure Has A Rapid Killing Effect Z. Ges Exper The 116 353-377 1950 K. Leneggenhager German due to an atmosphere of pure atmospheres in rats mice frogs flies subjective and objective symptoms oxygen under and Med men are a pressure of 4 to 6 described in detail In men increased oxygen consumption 03119290 01435 Industrial Hygiene Digest - 20 and carbon dioxide exhalation resulted 1993 1993 the body temperature rose approximately 0.5 degree the blood carbon dioxide sugar and pressure remained unchanged while the pH fell from 7.564 to 7.491 Normal brain liver and kidney tissue had a strong reducing action by reduction of indigodisulfonic acid to the leuco base 1993 1952 April as evidenced in less than 0.5 hour Tissues of animals under oxygen pressure lost their reducing power data point to functional brain Chem Absts damage as the of cause The NoveNovember mber November INDUSTRIAL November DUSTS November November Silicosis of Sandstone Cutters in Switzerland E. Berufskrankh June 15 44 63-75 Mar. 15 134-157 Burri Z. Unfallmed 1951 German Although the quartz content of the sandstones worked in Switzerland is November fairly high The characteristic ray and later tion on ABRAMS ABRAMS stonecutters 86 were run a bad found to have silicosis findings are hard nodules like calcifications Tuberculosis is the complica- coatlike pleura indurations occurring most often sandstone cutters reach ABRAMS the silicosis of stonecutters does not From 1933 to 1948 course an Despite silicosis and its complications age above the average of the Swiss the population Twenty contracted no silicosis in spite of long exposure to dust As the workers are rather old when aware of the disease they hardly ever change their occupation Medical and technical prophylactic ABRAMS the workers from silicosis such as measures moistening should be done in the open air or in huts the are taken to protect stones but all work equipped with air circulation Cond from Bull Hyg -- ABRAMS ABRAMS Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Miners ABRAMS ABRAMS V. vanMechelen Communication No. Belgium An examination of 49,216 miners RERE RE RE RE tuberculosis and 2.26 Among Belgian Coal Hygiene des Mines Hasselt 84 7 pp July 15 1951 French Institute brought to light 0.23 with active with healed tuberculosis of the suggest that tuberculosis is lungs These data among Belgian working miners owing possibly to the strict preemployment examination Miners however who have any rare respiratory trouble show a high incidence of tuberculosis infection is also This frequent among those in an advanced stage of anthracosilicosis BCG vaccination is not useful among those exposed to IN IN silica dust Freedom from further dust exposure does not improve prognosis if tuberculous infection is established Medical supervision is required to detect early cases and to watch over those detected - -- => Cond from Bull 03119291 Hyg 801436 Industrial Hygiene Digest Acute Silicosis in 427 Arch Mal - 21 Alpine Tunnels Profess 1992 1952 April Minelli MWB8-01437 1951 In French 321-323 12 Grunwald and P. E. 1992 This report 1992 1992 who dust while 1992 The periods of exposure employed in tunnels the Alps ranged from 2 years to 3 years and 4 months 1992 1992 concerns three workers belonging to the same family developed silicosis after comparatively short periods of exposure to There was history of no 1992 November November family All the progressive and severe cases were No information is given as hazard composition) or its tests bacteriological observation November November and all tuberculosis in the and to the were man one negative died while under constitution of the dust -- Cond from Bull 1951 German Hyg November 428 Pneumoconiosis in Zentr In November 29 of the 318 Arbeitsschutz H. 1 Schramm 105 Sept. factory in southwestern Germany agate grinding wheels stones are Silicosis in all stages grinders examined Those who had moderate ground observed in was or severe improvement in by irrigation of the but elimination of the dangerous dust can be more nearly silicosis had been in the occupation Some 27 to 30 years conditions has been achieved by better apparatus and sandstones attained ABRAMS a with sandstone November November Agate Grinders Arbeitsmed ABRAMS 429 by the Silicosis from ABRAMS Gigiena ABRAMS substitution of artificial grindstones ~- Cond from Arch Ind Melting Bauxite M.N. Krasnagorskaya Russian i Sanit No. 10 26-28 & Occ Hyg 1951 Examination of working conditions at the sites of bauxite and production of silicon carbide during the operation detected but no revealed rather cases were found stages was Better ventilation is suggested -- Chem Absts Aspects of the Silicosis Problem P.F. Holt Abstract of Lecture Nature 169 306-307 February 23 1952 430 ABRAMS ABRAMS : melting heavy dust formation In several cases silicosis in various severe Med : reviews the theoretical aspect of silicosis with developments such as the action of silica on proteins the effect of alkalies and the presence of organic silicon compounds in The author RE attention to recent RE RE the tissues 431. 431. IN IN The Bone Marrow in 201-210 June Silicosis 1951 G. Saita and C. DiNaro Med Lavoro 42 Italian with English Summary IN Myelograms for sternal puncture 20 cases of silicosis In pure silicosis the bone were studied marrow is by means of little affected When tuberculosis is present the myelogram is similar to that found in chronic infections The various pathological features are described -- Cond from Bull Hyg 03119292 Industrial Hygiene The 432 22 - Digest April and Anthracosilicosis Cardiovascular Reactions of Silicosis tribution to the Study of Cor Pulmonale F. 199 199 A Con- Institute Lavenne Communication No. Hygiene des Mines Hasselt Belgium mimeographed 1951 In French 1952 83 11 pp 199 199 pulmonale is Cor heart failure cardiac Oumber Oumber massive conglomerate type Among 23.7 died of right miners of South Wales with anthracosilicosis the coal Oumber frequent complication of silicosis and a especially of the anthracosilicosis Cor Pulmonale develops pulmonary and result of both a frequently difficult to separate the pulmonary It is insufficiency as The development and by definite electrocardiographic Some of these criteria are discussed by the manifestations from the cardiac manifestations stages of cor pulmonale can be established Oumber ray and clinical criteria author Miners who have been exposed over contain many coal nodules should be kept a on long period and whose lungs job since pulmonary the fibrosis is inevitable However at least once (DN the heart and maximal NI lungs of such miners should be examined In the determination of worker year cardiographic findings cardiac 433 433 433 a well as breathing capacity as the serve use to establish the pathologic change -- Arch degree of pulmonary and Ind & Occ Hyg The Action of Different Forms of Silica in Sensitized Frankfurter Z. disability electro- of the ray and computation of Animals W. Koch Path 60 were given repeated subcutaneous injections of 58-96 1949 Med German 5 (´« Animals rang or colloidal silica antigen mixture from a ABR called by With quartz a complete or quartz specific described are is followed after a Fibrosis is developed after three years during the necrotic and early fibrotic stages ABR ABR is seen in the late fibrotic a killed and examined after five months visible after six months and very well ABR were The tissue reactions foreign body granuloma necrosis which is accumulates nucleic acid Animals Gripcalin few weeks up to 36 months in detail weeks together with albumen few just Fat but little fat stage When colloidal silica is administered the early stages are the same ABR ABRbut no fibrosis occurs up to 18 months site of the injections contain 4.4 ad cysts unl w and 1.1 other ash The They and and water 3.5 lipoids 92 protein fats The animals lose resistance to infection and die within A detailed but speculative discussion follows the report of One chief point is that the action of the quartz is due both to results foreign effect IN large and silica With colloidal silica solubility small amounts amounts lead to instantaneous IN experiments silica fat but not at the may reach several inches in diameter silica RI RIthefew months RI Cysts then develop are described result in the formation of and protein completely removed too death intermediate doses a as in the complex between -- Cond from 03119293 Bull Hyg 01438 Industrial Hygiene Digest 23 - 1952 April ´¢ 434 Penetration of Dust Particles and Sites of G. Mottura Brit J. Ind Dust Stores in Pneumoconiosis 9 65-69 January 1952 Med CEBI CEBI CEBI CEBI CEBI CEBI The author presents additional evidence in support of his that dust CEBI stream and in the CEBI CEBI tissue CEBI CEBI JOqWOAON JOqWOAON JOqWOAON theory particles in the lungs are generally carried as such the lymph 435 435 435 and not der Med Abt No. der Suva JOqWOAON 27 No beneficial effect followed 32 but in improvement No reports other are as In the other tracheally length there was some yet ready on the effect of streptomycin combined with 275-297 Behrens W. 1951 Cond Schweiz from Bull Allg z Path Hyg u German In chrysolite asbestos was injected intraperitoneally and intraThe fibers varied from 5 to into mice and rats Unsuccessful attempts described seven only four was even partial working capacity restored Experimental Asbestosis 14 Lang Jan. 1951 German -- Pure ABRAMSABRAMS F. 1952 streptomycin treatment of 25 out of drugs Bakt ABRAMS pp of silicosis with tuberculosis cases alveolar primarily by phagocytes IHF Absts 77 78 Jan. Streptomycin Treatment in Silicosis with Tuberculosis Mtt 436 and in the interstices of liquid on the surfaces The to secure fibers of standard 180 microns length in are general picture is one of specific focal fibrosis resulting from the introduction of foreign No action of the asbestosis could be demonstrated Asbestosis bodies solution toxic or ABRAMS not formed The theories of the pathogenesis of asbestosis -- ABRAMS Cond are were discussed from Bull Hyg ABRAMS 437 ABRAMSABRAMS Pneumoconiosis Due Z. Artzl to Talc G. Fortbildung 45 375-382 July 15 ABRAMS A survey was made in cosmetic and medical purposes ABRAMS base used Leopold and W. Steyer 1951 German factory in Leipzig making talc powder for where until 1944 talc was the only mineral although minor amounts of kaolin and colloidal silica were used for time later Among 28 workers one case of stage 2 pneumoconiosis and two of stage 1 were found after 19 emphysema bronchitis apneic 25 and 30 years exposure Clinical observations show little respectively but RE Kohler G. a reduced vital or no disability for stage 1 capacity and shortened pause for stage 2 radiological pictures resemble asbestosis rather than Working conditions and materials are described and size The silicosis distributions are given Initial and annual ray checks Modern exhaust ventilation has greatly -- a pet Pn ss . are recommended improved dust control since 1940 Cond from Bull Hyg 03119294 01439 Industrial 438 1992 24 - Hygiene Digest Pseudoasbestosis Bodies Called Carborundum and Graphite A. Glauser and J.R 1951 1992 Curious bodies 1952 April Ruttner Experientia 7 275-276 pseudoasbestosis bodies caused Bodies German by the presence 1992 of the cubic 1992 reported in case of asbestosis bodies --Authors Summary in Biol Absts modification of carborundum and of graphite in the lungs of 1992 pencil factory worker are described The substance surrounding the minerals showed the same physical and chemical qualitites are 1992 Qa 439 xv! b b Fa IOAON Effect of Barium Sulfate Dust in Man R. Med 1951 Lavoro 42 221-226 June Camba Italian radiological study has been made of 14 workmen who employed for periods varying from 2 to 24 years in mining grinding and sacking barium sulfate in Sardinia No obvious radiological evidence of pneumoconiosis was seen but only clinical or radiological evidence of active or healed inflammatory disease of the respiratory system including the pleura not related to occupational causes Author’s English Summary Bull Hyg A clinical and had been -- IOAON IOAON The Experimental Production of Industrial of T.A. Dusts Lloyd Davies Dense Part II Brit Radiographic Zircon J. Ind radiological shadows by the Inhalation Harding and January 1952 Shadows H. ZrSi0 9 70-73 Med E. produced by aggregates of Apart from phagocytosis and possibly are phagocytosis containing zircon slight small cell accumulation there is ABRAMS ABRAMS no evident reaction to the Since zircon is less toxic than presence of zircon in the lungs of rats silica and possibly completely inert and since animal experiments ABRAMS suggest that it is less readily inhaled into and retained in the lungs it could provide a desirable substitute for silica than the latter -- Authors Summary ABRAMS ABRAMS PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF ABRAMSABRAMS RI Sound RI Hyg IN IN THE ENVIRONMENT ; and Its Measurement & Occ L. Beranek Arch Ind 5 97-108 February This paper is the first of a series read at a Conference Problems of Noise in Industry The L. Med 1952 held at Atlantic on the City April 23 1951 principles of sound measurement are discussed In order to the response of the ear it is necessary both to measure the sound level and to analyze the frequency of the sound Also three IN approximate adjustments of the sound level measuring instruments are necessary 03119295 01440 Industrial Hygiene Digest to cover the - 25 April audible range The sound meter recorder and their accessories 1998 1998 noise 442 1998 are the analyzer Methods of described MW8-01441 and reducing discussed briefly Industrial Plant Environmental Arch are 1952 Ind & Occ Hyg Med 1998 There are November November appraisals can many Study 5 C.R. 108-112 Williams February 1952 problems to be solved before adequate noise be made in plants in the nature of research and measurements at present must Portable frequency analyzers are be in very and only an increased demand can correct that situation There is little information on the sound levels frequencies that can damage hearing and our only hope is the accumulation of data in industrial plants Important aspects of a noise survey include 1 study of details short November November November supply of construction of the plant a fixed plant 2 obtaining sound data throughout the stations 3 detailed studies of individual noise sources and 4 study of noise sources in an attempt to determine precisely what is responsible for each of the various frequency band levels In addition November November audiometric studies of exposed individuals should be conducted with the noise survey wherever 443 simultaneously possible Estimating Percentage Loss of Hearing H.A. Carter Ind Hyg & Occ Med 5 113-116 Feb. 1952 Arch The author discusses the method of estimation of hearing loss adopted by the American Medical Association in 1942 and described by him at that time IHF Abst 367 1944 Now after nine years its ABRAMS ABRAMS beginning to appear and further examinations of the method including the compensation aspects are being made by several organizations limitations ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS are ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS 444 Noise Safety Criteria K. Kryter Arch Ind Hyg Occ Med 5 117-120 Feb. , 1952 criteria for noise safety are necessary 1 for voice communications 2 for deafness and 3 for mnauditory work output Three RE limiting sound level suggested are 40 85 and 100-110 specified conditions of pressure and frequency However especially for deafness effects the spectrum of a noise must be analyzed and the value given may be revised upward for certain frequencies The noise at the level ordinary factory given can be tolerated with no detrimental or physiological psychological effects except.possible ear damage when Values for the RE RE IN IN IN decibels under the worker is adapted to the noise 03119296 26 Industrial Hygiene Digest 445 Lesions Caused by Acoustic Trauma Ear Arch Ind - April 1952 & Occ Hyg Med 5 The normal anatomy of the with the assistance of a R. 121-123 ear Guild February and pathologic number of slides 1952 cases described are primary lesion caused by The acoustic trauma is the destruction of the hair cells of the organ of Corti It may be confined to a few outer hair cells or may include a large portion of the outer and inner cells with may also are in the Arch Hyg The & Occ a fibers nerve All these Changes changes H. House February 1952 trauma patient becomes The differential ear 5 124-128 difficult is not Audiometric frequency of 4000 cycles per characteristic dip in the second long before the his Med diagnosis of early acoustic tests will reveal November November ganglion Aspects of the Problems of Noise in Industry Ind November November damage to the supporting parts cells and irreversible Clinical November November occur aware of symptoms referable to diagnosis of more advanced acoustic trauma after the Therefore patient becomes aware of his hearing loss is more difficult preemployment and routine periodic audiograms are essential not only to establish an accurate November diagnosis acoustic trauma at the earliest Noise and Noise Reduction Arch more important moment in Ind Hyg & Occ -- Control Methods Med 5 to detect order that protective may be instituted measures 447 447447 but much possible Author’s Applied W.D. 129-137 February 1952 Summary Boynton The author discusses the fundamentals of noise measurement and BRAMBRAM effects and describes the methods of noise reduction used in a particular BRAMfactory Installation of absorbing materials of noise only restricted the the machines made access difficult spreading Enclosing Analysis of noise from parts of the machines located local sources and BRAMBRAM BRAM BRAM BRAM in many cases substitution of less noisy parts was found practicable BRAM ´» ; The Legal Aspects of Occupational Deafness N.S. Symons ~ Arch RERE Ind Hyg & Occ Med The author presents a 5 138-156 number of February 1952 compensation cases in which deafness was involved coming under the jurisdiction of the New York RE RE RE State law They illustrate a number of problems involving inconsistencies RE RE RE RE IN of of the law and difficulties in assessing disability that the intent of law is to IN disability in provide compensation only where there spite of court decisions to the contrary legal problems presented unanswered which individual industry are is fair The author maintains to the We should is Several seek a solution and to the to If this be public goal I am confident that the answer to the problem of noise in industry will not be long delayed our " 03119297 . 01442 Digest Industrial Hygiene 449 Noise Problem in The 17-22 Quart 13 1993 1993 January 1993 - 1993 27 H.T. Industry March Walworth 1952 also Tenn attention to number of a meaning of standards He shows that in on susceptibility are points are insufficient those The methods of noise measurement develop including frequency analysis NovembeNrovember 9 Before permissible noise levels and at present the data considered to 1-7 the measurement and control hygiene established the factors of frequency and individual to be Assn Hyg problems to be solved industrial are November Hyg News physiological effect of noise November November Ind the broadest of noise is one of its proper functions November Am in order to evaluate the 1993 November Ind 1952 1952 The author calls 1993 April and their limitations are are described discussed The basic methods of noise control substitution of products manufactured and the use of and cost of ear protectors by quiet processes segregation of noisy processes ear protectors So far the factors of comfort have not been efficiency but generally evaluated they are being studied Industrial hygienists should acquire a knowledge of the basic principles involved in noise control November November 450 How to Baffle Plant Noise In a ABRAMSABRAMS a Occ Hazards particular machine shop noise series of baffles from the panels Anon of fibrous was ceiling 1952 greatly reduced by hanging They consist of half inch thick and glass 14 47 70 Mar. rigid acoustical measuring 2 by 4 feet plastic film and hang about 5 feet apart Noise has been 35 on the average and the men converse in normal tones enclosed in ABRAMS reduced ABRAMS throughout the area 451 Influence of General Hypoxia R. Lewis and U.C. Luft on Local Cold Texas Rep Injury Biol & J. Pichotka Med 601 1951 ABRAMSABRAMS Observations indicate that the ABRAMS on frostbite suffered in aircraft and on mountains incidence and severity of local cold are greater at high ABRAMS ABRAMS altitudes than at sea level RE It RE before exposure did not affect the cause RE RE RE RERE General and animal experiments was found that hypoxia were hypoxia was suspected as a contributing conducted to test that possibility only during exposure and up to thirty minutes extent of necrosis However hypoxia present after local cold injury increased the extent of resulting damage in direct relation to the period of hypoxia This effect may be due either to local oxygen deficiency or to impairment of the peripheral circulation cold injury the outcome varied and the When hypoxia also preceded the difference must be attributed to secondary -- - Code ts wt Cond factors _ from Arch Ind Hyg n & Occ 03119298 Med 01443 Industrial Hygiene 28 - Digest April 1952 NHB8-0144 3 RADIOACTIVITY Cory oan cya) hp 4 AND RADIATION Industrial Radiation Hazards in New York State May R. Mayers 11-12 Feb. 1952 | : Monthly Rev. industriesindustries N. State Dept. In addition to radium dial will be use use sisi) Labor 31 , painting operations there several are in New York State which involve exposure to radiation and which investigated by the of the ray and Division of Industrial fluoroscope in Hygiene They include the inspection of spark plugs and inspection of plastic moldings fluoroscopes in shoe stores and the radioactive eliminator Each of these applications is briefly described 453 453 Recommended Safe Practice for Radium Dial Monthly Rev. N The N N. State Dept. Labor 31 Painting Plants Anon -Mar 1952 5-8 recommendations outlined in some detail static represent a minimum of precautions necessary to conform with accepted practice for the safe handling of radioactive luminous materials and the prevention of radium poisoning The recommendations good housekeeping routine include housing and equipment plant inspections radiation measurements ventilation lighting personal hygiene medical supervision and ventilation standards safety 454 Permissible Dosage and Considerations of Calculated Risk C.F. Behrens S. EU Atomic Energy Commission 3546 21 pp July 2 1951 Pathological hematological and genetic effects of radiation are nA) reviewed Permissible limits are discussed from the standpoint of cumulative effects of minimal amounts over long periods of time cumulative exposures of patients in clinical radiology the effects of occasional bomb atomic bomb due burst continued effects from atomicatomic fission induced from radiation exposures products resulting tion by an to contamina- an or by radiological warfare agents and incidental to operation more especially when exposures if employed under conditions when adequate shielding may not be practicable Calculated risk exposures are discussed and compared with involved by purposeful contamination of nuclear reactors and ! permissible dosage ranges Internal hazards from radioactive table of permissible dosage radiation exposures is included radiation isotopes are discussed briefly determinations for both external and internal -- Nuclear Sci Absts 03119299 Industrial Hygiene 455 Digest 19933 19 3 M. 19933 A method of Ellis Brit During Radium Manipulations Radiol 25 100-102 Feb. J. measuring the finger and hand doses received operations both medical and physical using small ray film packs 19933 1952 April Fingers and Hands Robb and R. radium 29 Protection Films for the Estimation of the Doses Use of Small The Received the 19933 - The initial results is described are -- 1952 during standard also published Authors Summary November November November 456 November November November Dosages Received by Patients During Ray Diagnostic Examinations F. November Wachsmann Fortschr December 1951 November The were Gebiete German dosages received by patients during routine ray examinations measured the values found agree with those known from earlier Even with modern investigations by other authors the was Rontgenstrahlen 75 728-733 dosages given found to be a are sometimes considerable possible radiography techniques Thickening of the filter of dosage reduction means given with the aid of which dosage determinations November quickly 457 A nomograph is be made easily and Summary in Nuclear Sci Absts The Hazard Involved in the Use of Carbon H. ABRAMS ABRAMS Author’s -- can Skipper Nucleonics 10 40-44 Feb. 1952 Carbon is the isotope most generally used in laboratories When used with caution and nonhazardous sented with a as Evidence and an new experimental tool it is considered data to support this conclusions discussion of the nature of the hazard Only a small are pre- amount of radioactive carbon from inhaled carbon dioxide is stored in the tissues When barium carbonate dust is inhaled the radioactive carbon is converted ABRAMSABRAMS quickly to carbon dioxide ABRAMSABRAMS 458 The Treatment of Irradiation Infection ABRAMS Carolyn W. Hammond and Marianne AECU 16 pp Tompkins Miller Atomic Energy Commission no date These experiments RE C.P. seem to demonstrate that generalized infection RE RE RE RE RE RE played a significant role in the death of mice exposed to moderate doses of body radiation Infection was caused by bacteria belonging to the intestinal flora Treatment with antibiotics reduced the mortality to a significant degree and most effective among the antibiotics tried Next in order of effectiveness were streptomycin was the chloroamphenicol aureomycin and terramycin among which there was no demonstrable IN IN difference in therapeutic value -- Nuclear Sci Absts 03119300 01445 Industrial Hygiene Digest D. Van Farowe COBI COBI 1952 April Hazard of Radiation The 459 30 - Heustis and A. 832-836 Radiology 57 Dec. 1951 COBI The Division of Industrial Health of the COBI COBI Health made COBI COBI a study of the operation of fluoroscopic in the eleven state mental COBI personnel Michigan Department of were hospitals in an and ray installations effort to determine whether being subjected to hazardous amounts of radiation The tabulated and fourteen factors to be con- COBI results of the sidered in JOQUIOAON are investigation eliminating such hazards in hospitals are given -- JOQUIOAON Absts Nuclear Sci JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON MEASUREMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON JOQUIOAON Determination of Oxidizing Impurities in the Atmosphere E. JOQUIOAON Effenberger The were Anal Z. 34 106-109 1951 Chem German oxidizing effects of ozone nitrogen peroxide and chlorine through buffered solutions of potassium studied by passing the gases iodide The effect of solution was studied reducing the pH value of the potassium iodide The increase in oxidizing power was particularly oxidizing effects it was possible to work out a simple method of determining each noticeable with nitrogen ABRAMS ABRAMS gas but when three of the gases ABRAMS ABRAMS simultaneous equations On the basis of the different peroxide after present it is necessary to set up three are working at three different pH values ABRAMS -- Chem Absts ABRAMS T. ABRAMS Determination of Carbon Monoxide in Air ABRAMS ABRAMS Japan J. Pharm Chem & 23 293298 Kani 1951 ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS determination of small amounts of carbon for the ABRAMS monoxide method in air is described A ABRAMS Any acid alkali organic gases that form carbon dioxide in the presence of heated hopcalite PC RERE RE are might bromine removed water hydroxide potassium through initially by passage Purified air thus solution 98 sulfuric acid or activated charcoal obtained is heated to 120 RE hydroxide the is led through a tube filled with hopcalite and resultant carbon dioxide is absorbed in 2 solution The residual barium cc of 0.02 N barium hydroxide is titrated with 0.02 N oxalic acid and the amount of carbon monoxide in the from the amount of alkali required barium hydroxide is equivalent IN conditions The of 350 to analysis for neutralization 0.224 cc of cc sample is One calculated of 0.02 N cc carbon monoxide at standard sample containing 0.01 to 0,005 carbon monoxide takes about 1.5 to 2 hours -- ´ Cond from Chem Absts 03119301 01446 Industrial 462 19 2 1992 1952 April Bleached Fuchsin in Determination of Sulfur Dioxide in the Urone and W.E. Boggs Anal Chem 23 1517-1519 Steigmann’s colorimetric method for determining sulfur dioxide applicable to small quantities in air Ten liters of air are passed through 10 mls of a solution of % glycerol modified to make it better was 1992 in 0.1 N sodium November 31 - Atmosphere P.F. October 1951 1992 1992 Hygiene Digest 20 November November hydroxide solution in a midget fritted bubbler liters hour An sulfuric acid and containing basic fuchsin solution 30 minutes a standard Interfering curve substances precipitation with mercuric chloride November After formaldehyde the extinction of the solution is read in a colorimeter spectrophotometer at a wave length of 580 millimicrons with at aliquot of the solution is mixed with the indicator or and compared eliminated by are Concentrations of 0.01 ppm may November be determined November 463 by The Determination of Small V.B. Vouk and O.A. A November this method Amounts of Tetranitromethane in Air Weber Brit J. Med Ind study of methods of determining 9 32-38 Jan. 1952 tetranitromethane showed that November November the Sievers reaction with some modifications may method for small quantities in air as an excellent Essentially collecting the vapor in ethanol adjusting the pH to 6 by addition of pyridine adding benzidine solution making up to volume and reading with a spectrophotometer a wave length of 400 millimicrons Tetraat ABRAMS nitromethane ABRAMS with a can probable be determined in amounts of 2 error of not more than 1.3 micrograms per ml if the procedure is followed closely 464 Industrial Atmosphere Factories III Determination of Phenol in the Producing Phenolformaldehyde 3 148 June 1951 Resins Pracovni Lekarstvi ABRAMS ABRAMS serve the method consists of A method for the described J. Atmosphere of Roubal and Zdrazil In Czechoslovakian polarographic determination of phenol in air is being applied for the determination of phenol The method is ABRAMS in the air of press rooms where bakelite is being processed and for the : : determination of phenol contamination of the air in RE motor linings RE the process of pressing The results of these analyses -- Arch Ind are given & Occ Hyg Med RE RE RE RE 465 Electric R. IN Analysis of Aerosols M. Compt Rend 231 Challande Pauthenier and 114-115 July 1950 Aerosol is made to flow through an electric field stant throughout the annular space between a wire and a French essentially concylinder The potential difference between the two causes a glow discharge transported by aerosol obtain an electric pone charge and are Particles precipitated on the 03119302 01447 Industrial Hygiene Digest 1998 April cylinder wall at a rate determined by the particular inner 1998 32 - number of particles per unit volume of aerosol to be 1998 1998 in used This 1952 size and the principle is said apparatus for studying industrial atmosphere an - 1998 PREVENTIVE bor Atm Poll Bull ENGINEERING bor Systems bor Design bor = Sheet Metal Worker of Exhaust =! ms 42 43. 46-49 for Granite 43-45 Dust F.H. 1951 43-45 July Stebbins Sept. 1951 1951 Nov. wu A < granite dust collecting system is described and illustrated a chip trap a flanged hood an intake hood and a hood Features include ´')surrounding discussed Chood supporters 467 The construction of hoods and pipes is the bush hammer including dampers and blast The selection of a gates and a suggested design for separator is also discussed Observation and Control of Dust in Foundry I. AMS Control of Dust B. Lawrie R.F. Ottignon Paper 1008 to The paper describes dust cloud AMS AMS generated during Inst new castings Brit Dressing Operations Observation of Foundrymen Dust 20 pp 1951 methods of observation and control of the these local exhaust ventilation to the II operations It describes the application dressing of small and medium size The results indicate that increased efficiency may be attained Sby using an air jet to control the direction in which the dust cloud flows -- 2 Artificial 468 GG The ome) Poll Bull Fog for ImprovingAtmosphere in Mines Marcello a Atm Securitas pp 106-108 August 1950 author gives an accout of experiments recently carried out a mine driving while from firing by road in order to isolate the gases dust resulting of an artificial fog composed of a mixture of water The article UNI glycerin and gives details of the appliance used and on the shifting of the fog screen during different phases of work The u experiments its UNI are means being continued in Italy to perfect the system and to application -- Atm Poll Bull 03119303 NW8-01448 Industrial Hygiene 469 Dust Digest - 33 April 1952 Suppression by Water Infusion in Coal Mines Working and Economic W. Thomae Bergb Rundschau 3 107-112 168-172 March Results 1998 19 8 1998 1951 April 1998 German The paper 1998 in 1998 1998 1998 a gives a Ruhr mine since 1949. evaluation of the results 19 8 detailed account of equipment is briefly described result was 470 fine dust in the return -- Dry Suction Apparatus Combat Silicosis to con- reduction of total dust at the coal- a air November Detailed difficult because of frequent changes in 75 points and a 55 reduction of the ditions but the average face and transfer The was experience with water infusion W. Cond from Bull Hyg Owsiany November Rundschau Bergb 3 119-120 March 1951 German The article describes and illustrates the use of this dust extractor which is used in pneumatic drilling is a kind of vacuum cleaner which sucks the dust produced in drilling through bores immediately below the of the drill into a large container where the dust is deposited The through several layers of fabric and discharged into the working room The suction is produced by compressed air injector The dust is crown air is filtered either November November caught dry in a large paper bag suitable to hold about 80 feet of drill- alternatively the dust may be caught in water and later discharged sludge Changing of bags must done by specially trained personnel The normal model serves two drills simultaneously and it can be used in a ings November or as horizontal position in narrow development A greater use of this dust extractor is recommended -- Bull Hyg . ABRAMS 471 Dust Control by the Salt Process Gluckauf 87 248-253 In ing the a Mar. 17 H. 1951 Spies German number of German coal mines dust control is effected by floor walls and roof with a layer of about cover- 1-1 inches thick layer is periodically moistened by spraying Part of the salt dissolves and crystallizing out again it comes to the surface by efflorescence and consolidates any dust that has settled out in the meantime The salt is applied mixture of to the walls and roof by spraying in two stages the first with a salt with % of lime The process has been found very successful over a number of years It is claimed to give protection against explosion fire and silicosis hazard Stone dusting may be unnecessary if the salt process is used and experiments to test this possibility are under way Cond from Bull Hyg The ABRAMS ABRAMS an RERE -- RE RE RE RERE COMMUNITY AIR HYGIENE 472 Pollution Chem Control Eng 58 Chemical 111-158 A group of papers Engineering Report May 1951 reviewing various phases of water and air pollution pollution is presented subjects waste The section products causing air on air pollution includes the following pollution by L. Silverman 03119304 NWB8-01449 Industrial Hygiene Digest - 34 effect of weather conditions and W. Sittenfield filters by topography by M. Vedder types of collectors O. 1952 April by C. Lapple electrical precipitators 1992 1992by W. Sproull sonic agglomeration by G. Kiddoo and odor removal by 1992 1992 1992 Bownes 1992 1992 1992 1992 1992 | ASPECTS MANAGEMENT ber ber ber 473 ber ber The Importance of Human Relations ber 473 R.L. Kahn 1952 Research for Industrial Manufacturing Management Series American Management Assn No. 200 300 West 42nd St. Productivity pp 15-28 New York 36 fay vw A = =< study of the productivity relation of the foreman’s attitude and qualifications to production is definitely higher when 1 the foreto have superior planning ability 2 the super- revealed that man appears to his visor men and less in time in work spends supervision production visor the foreman has had supervisory training 4 the supervisor visor more is employee rather than production 5 the foreman is helpful and understanding when his pride in the work and 7 Hours of Work and Rest and 474 Internat Occupations AMS AMS Annual Labour Rev. The report contains an countries men do a poor when there is group job 6 the group takes solidarity Holidays in Dangerous and Unhealthy 64 325 October 1951 analysis of regulations adopted by different as national legislation to provide more favorable conditions AMS adult male workers employed in dangerous and unhealthy occupations discussed under the following headings employed The The measures 1 are Hours of work exposure to of hours The purpose legislation here is to reduce the time hazardous conditions by limiting daily and weekly working prohibited in some countries while in others is permitted subject to strict conditions 2 Weekly rest Its value Overtime work is it recognized is _23 3 Annual and one free holidays day is Extra time now is given to practically all workers allowed and sometimes may be more than resorts spent in special one holiday year is given The holiday least country forbids giving cash compensation in lieu of the holiday R Arch Ind Hyg & Occ Med a one R one -- R R 475 Practical Problems of Nurses Louise IN Candland A nurse Working Alone in Industry Nursing World 216 32-35 Jan. 1952 should not accept a position in industry where she will work alone until she has had several years of varied experience under supervision and has gained experience in carrying out her own program A number of suggestions are given regarding interviews on seeking and 03119305 01450 Industrial Hygiene Digest 35 - entering employment information several 1998 1998 duties A number equipment and space of reported faults of nurses failings 2 failure proper sources are of employers in dealing with nurses income 1998 April 1952 of listed also including 1 low job classifications for industrial nurses and to accept the standards of nursing service recommended by industrial 1998 nursing associations 3 failure to allow time and expenses to attend professional meetings and to purchase nursing literature and 4 failure to provide adequate medical supervision 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 November November November 476 Training and Work at the Lighthouse 111 Association for the Blind November November E. The 59th St. Lighthouse of the New York New York 22 N. 22 pp Available at the above address 1951 This booklet describes the rehabilitation program of this organization Training in handicrafts instruction in Braille a time work commercial training and newsstand training are features of the center A total of 414 blind persons trained at the program employed November at the in industry are Lighthouse and listed in addition to 398 employed or supervised Lighthouse ACCIDENTS AND PREVENTION ABRAMS ABRAMS ABRAMS 477 The Human Approach to and Plant L. Safety Burrage in the Chemical Research ABRAMSABRAMS The author ABRAMS ABRAMS aim of 5 62-66 February 1952 who director of a describes the system of Laboratory Workshop large research laboratory training and assimilating new assistants with the making them take a personal interest in the work and cooperate Safety instruction is an integral part of this training Work- with others ABRAMS men are interested and instructed in a similar safety organization must man or woman is his or " manner be the creation such her situation has been achieved own safety officer Features of the the a The aim of any state of affairs that every In some departments that safety program include safety booklets and painting safety equipment green of with display safety equipment photographs of persons dressed in the use of attractive equipment 478 IN Propane Fire and Explosion Port Newark The National Board of Fire Underwriters by Report July 85 John St. New York 38 N. and The Fire Insurance Rating Organization of N. 31 Clinton St. Newark 2 N. 12 pp 1951 Warren Petroleˆ”mCorporation N. IN 7 1951. Seventy propane storage tanks of 30,000 gallons individual water capacity were ruptured as a result of the fire and explosions at the Propane a 03119306 MWB8-01451 Industrial Hygiene Digest - 36 April There Storage Terminal of the Warren Maritime Corporation deaths 7661 76 1 and 7661 a but three men buildings damaged 7661 7661 on The total adjoining property The results of the points worthy of consideration for 7661 Two tanks critically injured remotely JOquOAQN batteries and were no ruptured damage was over investigation brought out several safety in future installations They include thermal insulation of large tanks water spray subdivision of long transfer lines systems with remote control JOquOAQN were This report relates the story of the fire and its million dollars possible causes 7661 were 1952 controlled shut valves by staggered arrangement of tank appropriate fire walls JOquOAQN JOquOAQN MISCELLANEOUS JOquOAQN JOquOAQN JOquOAQN Leptospirosis in England and Wales J.C. Brit 1951 Med J. 689-697 Sept. 2 JOquOAQN JOquOAQN 22 Broom JOquOAQN Leptospirosis agricultural sewerage review is Weil’s or is a parasitic infection to which are A short exposed given of the history and classification of the genus leptospira the distribution of different species different domestic animals its disease and mine workers An and of the diseases analysis of 465 cases they produce in calls attention to high incidence among agricultural workers and the number of infections contracted while The incidence among miners has been reduced bathing by improved hygiene and other causes of canicola fever a similar disease The investigation included 54 cases and the differences between the two are discussed Improvement of methods of diagnosis use of is penicillin Leptospiral Meningitis Disease Due to M. Sigel ineffective Report of a Leptospira Ind A case of Med Preventive methods & Case are are Resembling Swineherd’s Pomona in the United States Surg meningitis in 21 The considered discussed 121-123 March T.B. Krouse and 1952 handler of diseased swine carcasses is L. pomona was the most likely etiologic agent of this meningitis as evidenced by a rise in agglutination titer against this organism In view of the previously unsuspected incidence of leptospiral presented infections due to Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae and canicola is called to this additional as a cause attention of infection in this country species Leptospira pomona must be considered in the differential diagnosis of aseptic meningitis particularly when the occupational history suggests close contact with animals such as horses cattle swine products -- - or Authors their Summary 03119307 01452 Industrial Hygiene Digest - 37 April 1952 INDEX 1999 Ear lesions Aerosols 1999 electric analysis Air 19 9 pollution control review Aniline poisoning 465 from acoustic 472 Exhaust systems dust 445 466 factory hazards 381 tomography granite Grease fiber Anthracosilicosis 1999 for 408 trauma 379 1999 1999 Hearing loss Asbestosis 436 experimental November November November NovembNer ovember employee orientation distribution Benzene Bladder Human relations research and productivity Hydroquinone 473 413 eye effects Industrial physicians 404 403 410 Insecticides graduate education cancer cause Blind 476 exposure and cholinesterase levels 457 rodenticides and fumigants Carbon 474 375 420 toxicity | Tehabilitation November 439 soning and leukemia 412 poisoning Hours of work and rest Benzene hexachloride tissue 443 376 Barium sulfate dust effect Hestimation earing Herbicides Atomic energy laboratory 414 November hazard Carbon disulfide 402 carbamate 461 Lead excretion 399 386 Lead poisoning carcinogenic studies Carbon monoxide determination in air ABRAMS efffect of citrates Carbon tetrachloride distribution in body Chromium dermatitis Cold injury hypoxia Condensation plastics and 451 387 from printing materials 448 RE RE 392 393 480 479 388 from rubber in nickel workers 385 395 Methanol Dermatoses toxic " hazard 398 legal aspects 383 Methyl bromide recurring compensation cases 400 384 Mine air purification Nerve casualties 468 411 Noise Dieldrin toxicology poisoning environmental Dust RE atrophy Lung carcinoma industrial : optic porphyrin tests Leptospiral meningitis Leptospirosis 394 Leukoderma Dermatitis ABRAMS ABRAMS and 409 7 Deafness legal aspects 421 table poisoning experimental suction 470 problems 471 in determination and control in foundries 467 446 449 industry reduction 447 safety criteria 444 Nurses suppression by water infusion _ 442 450 clinical aspects control salt study control collector 391 469 practical problems 03119308 03119308 475 MW8-81453 Industrial Hygiene Digest - 38 April Silicotuberculosis Ophthalmology ’ 377 industrial Orthophenylphenol Oxidizing foxicology Suetermination in air 405 460 fatal 424 effect homologue toxicity dusting Polyneuritis Chazards in air Chazards 416 418 422 determination in the etermination in air Tetranitromethane pneumoconiosis 464 agate grinders 428 434 irradiation infection Propane fire and explosion Pseudoasbestosis bodies 478 438 Radiation permissible dosage 455 454 Radium dial painting practice safe . 453 Radiation hazards 463 Tetryl toxicity poisoning 407 in tunnel 406 worker Toxic chemicals in New York toxicology 452 miners Vanadium Varicose veins 389 Vision tests 433 for small plants ray exposures Sificosis bone : marrow 427 431 from melting bauxite 429 of sandstone cutters 425 Broblem RE cor pulmonale cleaning 477 in alpine tunnels 417 426 poisoning from boiler in 401 and anthracosilicosis in amorphous effects . Tuberculosis 423 Callergic acute 419 agriculture Tricresylphosphate in plastics toxicity Rhinitis Sificosis 437 Trichloroethylene monitoring E 390 T.N. 458 treatment Cal ergic 462 determination in air 10 penetration of dust particles in atmosphere Sulfur dioxide hazards Peumoconiosis Propane 441 measurement Tetranitromethane Phenol 10 380 Talc Toxicology etermination of hand and forearm 415 Pesticides Peumoconiosis 396 exposure Skin cancer Sulfur dioxide Rasathion and 435 Sound pressure ygen streptomycin treatment Silver dust Oxidizing gases Suetermination 1952 industry 397 382 378 of patients 456 in hospitals 459 Zircon ray shadows 440 430 432 03119309 81454 C) > SUNTUO-GEAH a = Confidentiality . ConfidentialiCtoynfidentiality e Review