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21 April 1956 A. P. Fcinnosh, C.apt* US/IF (FC) halted States Air .Force hospital FacDlll Air Force Base, Florida Bear Captain McIntosh: Be have been informed of. the removal from work of Fleas s, ___ arxd^lHHSBB| Because of the information vre have In ccrrospondonee fiat jrxAlgust 1955 (to fir. A. J. Baldwin) we are presuming that the three ytical results given In the original letter were dotormin atIons on blood of these three men* he have asked Colonel John Boysen of the Industrial "g ileal faction of the Air Force Fedical Corps to Inquire into the particulhrs of the health status of these men but believe It advantageous to p .it into your containers for the collection of blood and urine oampfL g o before me Ive tho requested Information from Colonel Boyson on th rs-Qsvx:;ot ion te mould want tho samples aftor the receipt of the row ort,, VjgF If our presumption that those three rsn have been ro?, .ov od from theIr laboratory job because of the analytical findings for lead arc correct please collect samples of both blood and urine from these w n according tof&he instructions which, accompany tho containers and refcufmr them to ns fdfJanaiysos ho are very doubtful that the so men have absorbed sign if'leant amounts of organic lead as a result of thoxr potential exposure to otmethyl lead in the laboratory unless some overt exposure has occurred,, This is because (3\\ f]e have never seen evidence of significant exposure In en engaged in \,\/^hl3 hind of work and would not expect it unless there ad boen an ^Amusual - occurrence such as spillage on. the-skin which was not cloaned promptly and adequately or unless"spillage had occurred outside the hood and therefore created heavy concentrations of cry an Ic lead in 'the respiratory air from which tile men were not removed nor protected. (2) The last report which we have seen on analytical results given In ht* Pissuto*s letter to A* ,T. Baldwin of 29 March is no consistent with organic - lead exposure for reasons given fully in D|r , :"ekoo * s letter to you of 10 October 195>5> For the reasons- given in this letter of Dr. Kehoe`s it Is necessary for intelligent Interpretation of the analytical findings o:<n people with exposure to organic load to have those findings on both bio 'Ai ynd urine. B. P. 'Joint osh, Capt. - (2) - 21 April 1956 The level of Q2 micrograras mentioned in Lb, Pizzuto's letbdr if truly representative of the concentration of load in blood would suggest absorption of .inorganic lead rather than organic*. ho shall inform you of our results and our interpret aimmediately after our analyses Very truly yours. : vr be - i>r. II. . J-Cehoe n! _1 Colonel John Boysen iZgcfcatocI hut not road. Lester '7* Danders, 'TD. !: :: KS 0017336