Dr. Paul Gross to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith Sending the Report on Salvatore Carnovale's Lungs (1964)

A one-line covering letter of February 3, 1964, from Dr. Paul Gross, research pathologist at the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America in Pittsburgh, to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith, Johns-Manville's medical director in New York. Gross encloses three copies of his "Report on Lungs and Pleura of Salvatore Carnovale," two with photomicrographs, and an invoice for the case, and says a full copy is going to Dr. Mario P. Grasso. The report itself is not in this file.

What it shows

In the early 1960s J-M sent the tissue of workers whose deaths had led to claims to Dr. Gross, the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's pathologist, for an opinion, and paid for each case. This letter is one of a run of such covering letters and reports from 1964 to 1968 in J-M's files, later marked as exhibits to a 1981 deposition of Dr. Daniel C. Braun.