<Dl> <Dd> For additional chronological citations, see also, List of asbestos disease medical articles </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> For additional chronological citations, see also, List of asbestos disease medical articles </Dd> <P> In 1899, Dr. Montague Murray noted the negative health effects of asbestos . The first documented death related to asbestos was in 1906 . </P> <P> In the early 1900s researchers began to notice a large number of early deaths and lung problems in asbestos - mining towns . The first such study was conducted by Dr. H. Montague Murray at the Charing Cross Hospital, London, in 1900, in which a postmortem investigation of a young man who had died from pulmonary fibrosis after having worked for 14 years in an asbestos textile factory, discovered asbestos traces in the victim's lungs . Adelaide Anderson, the Inspector of Factories in Britain, included asbestos in a list of harmful industrial substances in 1902 . Similar investigations were conducted in France and Italy, in 1906 and 1908, respectively . </P>

When did the dangers of asbestos became known