Pulmonary Asbestosis

published a short note on the woman who is the subject of this paper.The only similar case on record was that of a man admitted to the Charing Cross Hospital in 1899, whlere he died in 1900.Dr. E. L. Middleton of the Home Office kindly lent the notes of the case, and of tlhe evidence given before the Departmental Committee on Inldustrial Diseases in 1906 by the late Dr. H. Montague Muirray, under whose care the man had been.This patient, a man aged 33 years, had worked in the carding room of an asbestos factory for ten years prior to his admission to hospital.He informed Dr. Murray that he was the sole survivor of ten men who started work with him in the cardinig rooim; the othlers had died, presumably as the result of their occulpation.A post-mortem examination was held and the-diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis was confirmed.Dr. Murray in his evidence refers to photomicrograplis of lung sections whichl show " spicules of asbestos."These are the salient facts of the first and, down to 1924, the only record of a death due to asbestos.