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health Fax:410- 706-0727 Oct 23 '98 15:45 P. 04/05 566 Au x v c a W J ournal o r P u blic H ea lth f ride, treacle, melt extract, dried yeast there would appear to be little danger end potassium bromate. It was found unies the use were repeated os suc that all the bakers who bad suffered cessive weeks. from dermatitis had beer} using yeast The machines however revealed s very foods or accelerators containing am* definite hasard to the operator, par nxwium or potassium peri(ity>h*te and ticularly from insufficient protection that the outbreak of dermatitis foBowed from leakage around the scram. a few months after the introduction of It was therefore recommended: (1) this chemical 1 yeast foods, a practice that aB X-ray machines in shops or new in Australia. other industrial places should be licensed Water suspensions o r solutions of after testing and inspection by the whole products were used jhi testing. A Board of Health; (2 ) that the present typical subject, when tested, shows a machines be Immediately protected to marked wheal and erythema to most of the satisfaction of the Board of Health; the substances mentioned above, par (3) that in the case of machines used ticularly malt wheat flour, vbOe the re for shoe fitting, a notice be posted warn action to ammonium perstfphate in 5 to ing customers that their feet1should not 10 per cent solutions a a grant wheal be exposed for more thaii 3 tairait* in and marked erythema which pettht any one month, and that the use of the often for days, wberets the other reac machines to search for needles sad such tions disappear within an boor or two. like bodies is dangerous.--Charles Bad- Often the testing lights up a resobring ham tt at. (see previous abstracts). dermatitis. A 1 per cent solution ap plied over s few minute* does not pro E. R. H. duct a maritetfreaction. Individuals unaffected by dermatitis have not reacted to Arise substances. Does the practice of bleaching flours have any bearing on tin question? A critical appreciation of the nmsKt so far obtained will be pnb later, hut am is tempted to that bakers' dermatitis in Sydney m p resulted from the unfortunate df l i lerglc individual w ith.atjue solations of persulphate.--Chartes Bmfitam t f of. fa E. . H. Chronic Lead Poisoning in In fancy and Sariy Childhood--'The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, as a result of a reoit inquiry among prominent pediatrists, calls ;attention to the targe number of case* jot lead poi soning occurring among infants and children. The brief note! pointa out that a Boston physician reports 50 cases of lead polsosdsg among children at a Boston hospital miring! the pu t 6 yean, b these cuds, the diagnosis was proved beyond doubt, the source of lend T h e U se. o f X -ray M achines in Shops or O ther Industrial Places-- It was found that in the use of X-ray machines m boot departiaentt of several dty shop* the erythema deae which might produce bu n * to the customer being the paint on cribs, woodwork and toys. It aeetu obvious that the simp)* pre caution of using sine paints is those cases should be resorted to. Load poi soning due to the use of nipple shields was over 25 minutewhere aB the rays and of lead ointment da the breasts of come through a lead g lu i covering the mothers was aho considered a source of screen, but that:a leakage around the poisoning by the physicians interviewed. screen ought lead to a bum in s shorter --S u t. Butt., Metropolitan Life Insur time. As the exposure! when fitting i ance Company, n , to : 4 (O ct.), im o . shoe is generally well Under 'minute L. 0. prim of van expen: dherd young >25