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7 February 1946 j ibh o h a h iiu k 70 s ATTSHTIGil* COPT fO t Lead Industries Association Mr. Felix v/ortaser Mr. Drew Fletcher Attendance at the meeting today suggested a f e e notions that X should like to pass oa to you for what they are ticrth. 1. The problem of head Industries Association initially, is to ducats the practicing physician with respect to criteria for diagnosis of pluabies. 2. The idea of the Symposium is good, but one should not be too optimistic about It*s acoospliahaent insofar as the average doctor is concerned. A man sufficiently interested to spend four or five days attending a Meeting on Industrial Hygiene, is the kind of aa who is alert enough to get at the facts which are readily available In the literature. The sea you want to reach in the man who attends few if any medical actings. 3 Ko educational program dll h&v my real effect unless it is bassd upon research and/or n m points of view. 4. Sesesroh which is to provide answers to specific problems must bo carefully designed to and integrated with these problems. All of which adds up to the fact that, from a long range point of vie, any effective better understanding of plumbism should be based upon a consistent and planned research program. >. Load Industries Association should sponsor such m research program, the general plan of which is determined by it* group of medical consultants -- not by the people who prosecute the research. 6. An attitude of complete real!era toward the problems can only be achelved if the lead Industries Association has proper medical advice. KE 0014705