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Mr. Francis B. Elder Engineering Associate The American Public Health Association, 1790 Broadway Hew York 19, Hew York Inc. Dear Mr. Elder: I send xny check, together with the carbon of the invoice, for the copies of the report on "Methods for Determining Lead in Air and Biological Materials" and I appreciate the special price made to m e . In view of your comments on the report "Occupational Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoning", I am requesting you to send me an additional fifty (pO) copies of it, and to bill me for them. I use these in both graduate and postgraduate teaching, as a good, brief summary of the most Important facts. It is obsolete in only one important respect, namely, in its manner of dealing with the specific therapy of lead poisoning. I 'd like to see that changed, and while that. Is being done, some other additions and improvements'; could well be made. So far as m y own use of the text is concerned, this Is a minor-fault which I can offset easily. ; I i I am not suggesting the desirability of rewriting tills report or of reprinting it, particularly If there Is no significant demand for It. Certainly I would not take on the job happily, for If I had the time to devote to writing on this subject, I would be up to m y ears in a monograph in an attempt to cover the various phases of the load problem adequately# What I am concerned with is getting It, as It is, Into the hands of those who need its information. " There is no reference work available at present in which there is anything like as much useful information as there is In this report. . It is unfortunate that its existence is not better known, and it is no credit to the profession that those who know about it have not spoken of it more widely. I 'll hazard the guess that our synposiura of next week will bring forth some sales. I intend to give copies of it to those among our speakers who do not have copies, but I shall advise the others to purchase It from your office Sincerely yours, R A K : jw Robert A. Kehoe, M. D.