An English train driver has succumbed to mesothelioma. Now, his widow has spoken before a coroner's inquest and unveiled the truth behind her husband's asbestos-related cancer. Frank White died in June of this year. He was 74. He was an employee of British rail for nearly 50 years, and he was exposed to asbestos while on the job. While training to become a driver, White was instructed to clean out fire boxes that were rife with asbestos.
His widow, Freda, 80, said: "Frank would tell me about how some of the workers would make snowballs out of the asbestos to throw at each other while they were messing about, or make it into a football and kick it about. He was a fit man who was never ill. He tended to his allotment every day for 35 years and had years in him until he fell ill. I feel really cheated and angry and feel something should have been done about this years ago. Companies must have known it [asbestos] was dangerous."
Mr. and Mrs. White have two children, David, 48, and Susan Wood, 45. Said daughter Susan, "He was young-looking and strong for his age, which makes it all the more sad that he was taken from us by this disease. He lived for his job and would not have done anything else."
The coroner's inquest recorded a verdict of industrial disease, and the coroner was satisfied that Mr. White's mesothelioma was caused by his exposure to asbestos during his time working for British Rail.
Physicians in the UK, like Dr. Robert Winter of Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, as well as physicians here in the US continue to work towards a cure for mesothelioma cancer.
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