§ Mr. Maddenasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement outlining the circumstances in which the Employment Medical Advisory Service assisted a team from Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, in a clinical examination of workers in the Quebec chrysotile asbestos industry; and what were the main conclusions of the study.
§ Mr. John Grant,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 15th June 1977; Vol. 933, c. 180], circulated the following answer:
I am informed by the Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission that an employment medical adviser took part in this work while on secondment as visiting professor to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York in the period October-November 1974. A scientific report on this survey has not yet been made available for study.