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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injury to the liver that may lead to death from subsequent attacks of what otherwise would be relatively harmless diseases has been traced to fumes from certain widely used chemicals by Dr. Cecil K. Drinker, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, and his associates...
...chemicals responsible are complex compounds of chlorine and naphthalene, recognized for some time as the cause of skin diseases affecting industrial workers handling them. The higher the amount of chlorine present in the compound, the greater the damage, both to the skin and to the liver, Dr. Drinker has found...
...most dangerous aspect of the fumes, Dr. Drinker emphasized, is that the worker is apparently in good health and shows absolutely no clinical symptoms, although his liver is becoming possible prey for disease. This organ is the only one affected by the fumes but acording to the experiments, recovery from this weakening is very slow even if the worker is no longer exposed to the fumes and can avoid liver complications...
Industry has no substitute that would permit elimination of the dangerous chemicals but Dr. Drinker's tests show that if the concentration of their fumes in the air is kept below a certain point, there is no danger...
Exposures were for 16 hours a day, six day's a week and the concentrations used, Dr. Drinker said, were fairly representative of industrial experience as shown by tests in some 30 factories...