In the summer of 1935 the official publication of The Insurance Brokers' Association of New York published an article by Henry Sayer entitled "Occupational Diseases." Here is an excerpt:
"One aspect of the occupational disease problem relates to the so-called dust diseases. There have been described by medical men in recent years conditions known as silicosis, asbestosis, pneumoconiosis and siderosis, all being dust diseases due to the inhalation of inorganic dust. Dust is an accompaniment of most industries, certainly a very large proportion of them. We find it not only in the stone-cutting and rock drilling industries, we find it in the factories, in the foundries, grinding processes and the silicosis rate is very high in some of these places. No one knows how high, but it had been estimated in terms of a high percentage of the employees. It is a disease that does not make itself known early, perhaps until after five or more years of occupational exposure."
Two of the directors for the Insurance Brokers' Association of New York at that time were Laurence S. Kennedy of Marsh & McLennan, and L. A. Wallace of Johnson & Higgins.
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