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Four pages (7-10) from a U.S. Navy medical department history of World War II, stamped "Restricted" with a May 1947 date, on dispensaries at navy yards and other industrial establishments. It describes the yard medical officer's place in the chain of command, industrial hygiene as a new and important branch of preventive medicine, eye-protection programs at Portsmouth, Puget Sound and Charleston, and hazards such as metal fumes, lead, carbon monoxide, mercury, chromium, silica, cyanide and solvents. It closes with staffing figures for the Norfolk Navy Yard dispensary in December 1941. Asbestos is not named in these pages.
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- U.S. Navy
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Date
- 1947
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 25223 · asbestosclaims.law/library/25223
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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“U.S. Navy Medical Department History, Dispensaries Associated with Industrial Establishments (c. 1947).” 1947. U.S. Navy. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 25223. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/25223.
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