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Worker weighing enough mixed, blown fur for one hat in a Connecticut hat making plant. The plant was part of the 1937-1938 PHS industrial hygiene and engineering study of mercury exposure and its health effects in the hatmaking industry. Published in USPHS Public Health Bulletin No. 263, Mercurialism and its Control in the Felt-Hat Industry, 1941, Figure 4. With the caption: A weighed amount of mixed and blown fur is placed on a conveyor belt (shown at left).
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH; USPHS
Creation Date: 1937
Photo Credit: U.S. Public Health Service
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