Mesothelioma search and history

An article published by Wagner et al in 1960 established for the first time that mesothelioma is a disease resulting from exposure to asbestos in the form of crocidolite. Article list more than 30 cases of patients who experienced mesothelioma in South Africa including temporary exhibitions and cases involving minors.

In 1962 Dr McNulty reported the first case of malignant mesothelioma diagnosed the Australiechez a worker exposed to asbestos. The worker had worked in the mill at the asbestos mine Wittenoom from 1948 to 1950.

In the town of Wittenoom, waste packaging of asbestos from the mine have been recycled for coating schoolyards and playgrounds

In 1965 it was established in an article published in the British journal of occupational medicine that people who had lived in the neighborhood of factories and mining of asbestos, but without work, had contracted mesothelioma.

Despite evidence that the dust associated with operation of the mine and milling asbestos fibers was indeed the cause of diseases related to asbestos mining began at Wittenoom in 1943 continued until 1966.

It is difficult to understand why it has allowed the mine and mill first opened and continue to operate without appropriate measures to control risk, and why nothing was done to coerce the owner (CSR) to comply with standards, to adopt methods of work safer or terminate operations.

In 1974 the first public warnings about the dangers of blue asbestos were published in the Bulletin magazine in Australia as a bound book whose cover was called "the killer is there in your house?"

In 1978 the GovernmentWestern Australia decided to raze the town of Wittenoom, following the publication of a booklet of the health service, "the health risk at Wittenoom", containing the results of atmospheric sampling and evaluation of medical data available worldwide.

In 1979 the first complaints of neglect Wittenoom have been launched against CSR and its subsidiary ABA, and society of asbestos disease has been formed to represent the Wittenoom victims.