Asbestos killed former secretary (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Asbestos killed former secretary
12:48pm Tuesday 13th March 2007 in News By Michael Black
Exposure to asbestos in the 1950s led to the death of a retired secretary, a coroner ruled today.
Jean Hook, 74, had come into contact with the deadly fibres when she worked for a plumbing and building merchants in Hull about 50 years ago.
She married in 1954 and moved around the country because of her husband's work before settling in East Morton, near Keighley.
In April and May last year Mrs Hook began to feel unwell and scans revealed that she had a shadow on her lung, which was later diagnosed as mesothelioma.
Her condition gradually deteriorated and she died at home in Stone Court in January.
Bradford Coroner Roger Whittaker said that exposure to asbestos in the workplace had caused her death and recorded a verdict of industrial disease.
