European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes april 1977 Gri m cancer on but refuses to inform them Washington not Federal health Agency has not informed tens of thousands of american workers whose names it has collected that they have been exposed to substances known to cause even though Early warnings can result in cures or prolonged the names and addresses of the who stand a far greater Chance of developing cancer than the general have been gathered in scores of statistical research projects undertaken by the National Institute for occupational safety and health Over the last five the head of the John Fink said the workers had not been in formed of i i risks they face partly because his Agency lacked the necessary and authority and partly because of his belief Thiol notification without ail effective followup system might do More harm than flood a said that further Institute studies would probably identify workers who wore at and that the question of what the govern ment should do to help Thorn was one of the major Nat ional health of course 1 am he Lizul Ihu problem far exceeds my personal or even no osiris ability to do much about it Given the present you try to in i Shibest you can and Hope that others will do the the institutes responsibility in gather ing data on those exposed to dangerous substances was discussed in a memorandum april 8 by Kenneth Sci of the Agency office of extramural coordination and special liability a possibility i Bridbord said that if a government corporation or Union possessed the mines of workers whom they knew were at risk of and if they did not notify the workers of this then All parties could conceivably be liable should any of these workers subsequently develop asked m an interview whether Trio inaction was in conflict with his professional responsibilities As a phys that question is being tested in the courts the department of education and the institutes Parent is being sued by to Asbestos workers on the ground that they have contracted asbestosis because the government failed to give them timely warning about this frequently fatal lung one of the dozens of research projects in which workers and former workers who faced special risks were identified involved two substances that have for More than 20 years been known to cause bladder the two substances arc Benzidine and recent experience has shown if detected in its Early bladder cancer frequently can be in 1972 and William a physician then working at the collected the personnel records of workers who had been exposed to the two substances while working at Dye plants in Michigan and South last who is now doing graduate studies at the University of in wrote Finklea asking Why the unlike Britain and had my developed a system for the Early Detec Tion and treat ment of cancer in these work in his Kinkler said that the personnel records of the exposed men could be made available to an appropriate within the constraints of the privacy act of that May want to pro vide the Type of assistance you mentioned medical Finklea added thai this kind of program had been recommended at a 1973 cancer control planning conference and that the National cancer Institute recently had been asked to provide the required to we have not reached agree ment with the Sci on funding an occupational bladder cancer control project such As they have done with the Asbestos work ers in and Vinyl Chloride work ers in the official told Finklea said that because Many of the workers who were regularly exposed to hazardous substances were poor and highly simply notifying them of the increased likelihood of cancer was not of much an effective program to control he would require at least three other these were As follows a National healthcare system that could provide Low income workers with medical treatment by doctors who were skilled and knowledgeable in dealing with occupational a workmen compensation system that would provide adequate payments for workers who have developed chronic Dis eases such As cancer because of conditions in their work a National Job Security program that would require companies to find jobs in less hazardous areas without a loss of pay for workers whose health has been damaged while working with substances such As co altar or Congress has provided funding for one specific disease the Black lung that frequently strikes Coal miners that could serve As a Model for the program outlined by under the Blacklund miners were prayed and Given notices of their clinics were established to assist those who were though Only temporary Relief is possible with Blacklund a Niosi spokesman surgeons blamed in most deaths Washington Puli a study submitted to a House investigations subcommittee says 78 per cent of preventable complications or deaths which resulted from medical operations in seven states involved the the other 22 per cent had to do with the Hospital where surgery was the patient or the the study prepared by surge Oai the majority of preventable incidents were surgeon related 78 per it tip scares cabbie Philadelphia cab Driver Nathaniel Knox left Walchli police Herman Webb count Knox found in the rear Seal of his cab in a briefcase after two passengers woo bad taken a ride alter searching for his Knox turned in his cab and took the Money to the passengers were found and reunited with the who said be was a Little nervous carrying his has been promised a photo technique was the most common Factor with postoperative care far behind in second place followed by a mix of inadequate judgment and pre opera live the study was to be presented monday to the House subcommittee on oversight and investigations As it resumed its controversial probe of unnecessary a subcommittee report released last year said that million unnecessary operations were performed in resulting in deaths and a Cost to the Public of hearings this week and next week on the Quality of surgery in hospitals will review a new study reporting Sharp differences among hospitals in surgical death rates and the complications of the study that was scheduled to be presented monday includes judgments by surgeons on whether surgical deaths and life Throat ing situations were about on third of deaths and almost half the critical incidents among surgical patients were judged to be according to the study by Charles child of the Ann University College of surgeons authorized by the american College of the study involving hospitals in North Pennsylvania and Washington state found that 796 of life threatening complications occurring among patients who underwent surgery were the critical incident study of surgical deaths and complications said 85 of 245 patient deaths after surgery were prevent it looked at a series of common opera like hernia removal of appendix or gallbladder surgery and when a death or untoward incident of a judgment regarding preve Tabil Ity was made on the spot by the hospitals surgical staff and was sent to the study Center in Ann no patient or doctor was secession talk growing in Garden states South Newark Iasi residents of Mendence to the eight counties below the on their slower Arph life map residents of Nantucket and marthas Vineyard off Massachusetts Arent the Only ones talking about some people in Southern new Jersey Are fed up and want to split their state in were tired of paying taxes that end up in Northern new says Albert Leader of the secession move we want our destiny planned by ourselves and our publisher of the Burlington county Herald and provisional governor of the state of South wants to Divide the state at the Southern Borders of Mercer and Monmouth declaring Independence to the eight counties below the that would give the state of South Jersey a population of with its own capital and its tax dollars out of the hands of the politicians in most of new jerseys seven million Resi dents arc concentrated in the Industrial cities within commuting distance of new they traditionally have looked at their Southern neighbors the Way northerners Baum Jurse people living in the deep South must jump several Legal hurdles Sii new Jersey is a land of Fields founding of the Only four and the residents of the Southern area of the Garden state Pride themselves on their slower paced Freeman started his crusade As a joke but now Hes he gives away certificates of he also has requested Legal opinions on How to set up the state and has taken taken All other Steps Short of dont there wont be any War Freeman were peace Loving Here in South for Freeman and his fellow rebels to achieve statehood for South Jersey they slates Virginia in Freeman will have to gel the people of the eight Southern counties to vote for statehood at a constitutional convention or by then the state legislature and Congress would have to ratify the de if it wanted Congress could set Spe Cial conditions before admitting South Jersey to the South Jersey Doest belong with North Freeman we dont have much in common with them up there with an their