Document B57EzvvmJwQ80XYzYyMVJQDMo

\ il ifov ember Mr# Francis B. Elder Engineering Associate The American Public Health Association, 1790 Broadway New York 19, New 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 Detexmiining Lead in Air and Biological Materials" and I appreciate the special price made to me In view of your comments on the report "Occupational Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoning", I am requesting you to send me an additional fifty (50) 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 It is obsolete in only one important respect, namely, in its manner of dealing with the specific therapy of lead poisoning.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 my own use of the text is concerned, this i3 a minor-fault which I can offset easily. \\ I am not suggesting the desirability of rewriting this 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 my ears In a monograph in. an attempt to cover the various phases of the lead 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 ?/ork 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 symposium of next week will bring forth some sales# 1 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. 0015367