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3085014 
Journal Article 
Review 
Asbestos - An environmental health hazard 
Norwood, WD; Fuqua, PA; Mancuso, TF 
1967 
0 
Northwest Medicine
ISSN: 0029-3385 
66 
9 
821-828 
English 
4864688 
MEDLINE:4864688 
Carcinoma of the lung, other respiratory diseases, cardiac complications, pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomas, and carcinoma of the rectum have been attributed to asbestos. The latent period may be from 30 to 40 years and disease may follow non-occupational exposure. Asbestos workers, however, have the highest incidence of disease due to asbestos, not necessarily due to exposure at the place employed when disease is discovered. Diseases due to exposure of those employed in shipyards and other war industries during World War II are now appearing and will increase. Physicians, employers, and industrial insurance executives should share interest in the problems created. 
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