Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories For the Year 1954

This document is the official annual report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for 1954, published by H.M. Stationery Office in London. It is a government report, not a research study. It covers factory accidents, safety, health, industrial poisoning and diseases, special regulations, and hours of employment. Most of the scanned text is unreadable. The legible asbestos material is limited. Two tables analysed asbestosis cases by sex and age at death (Table 35) and by sex and duration of exposure in years (Table 36). Most numbers in the table bodies are too damaged to be reliably assigned to groups, though a footnote to Table 36 noted one case excluded for lack of information. Another footnote stated that 7 female asbestosis cases, and 4 other cases whose description is damaged in the scan but appears to read 'male', also had cancer of sites other than the lung, and that these were counted under asbestosis. Separately, the heating section described single-storey factories with asbestos-cement sheeted walls or roofs as hard to heat economically. No legible conclusion about asbestos disease could be found in the text.

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From J-M's medical library

This copy comes from the Johns-Manville medical library. It was among the papers J-M kept in its medical library without an index entry. Barry Castleman cites it in chapter 2, "Cancer", of Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects (5th ed., 2005); see Reading Castleman.