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CiATED ETHYL COMPANY LIMITED .flTIUEHY HOUSE, ARTILLERY F/JW, LONDON, PRQ/108 Britannic House, Finsbury Circus, LONDON, EoCoE. 18th April 1945,, Dear Fossett, Lead Poisoning. oj I had a letter in hand to you, covering some additioiia| data on the urine contents of operators engaged in the filling sheds at Abadarf,when your letter of the 17th instant arrived, covering Dr. Kehoe's %gly on t!h| previous set of clinical figures that we sent you. . 1' You will notice from- the attached daJh,#wMch has been\ektracted from a recent Abadan memordandum that, despite ji'gjC precautions to pheyent contam ination, abnormally high lead contents^aj''still,being reported on urine samples. '. Abadan are concerned to accouiit fo^the.se' results, which are occurring with undue frequency, and are .ibjsnt^^^nve'stigate other possible sources of lead exposure connected with,/fc#Si handlihg^oY^'Mie "teme" plate used in the manu facture of the 4 gallon containers. n v \ This proposale^^-in l1ii1le with Dr./j^ihoe's suggestion that, if contamination can be excluded a^^igg&on fo^the higi-f^igures, then the inference must be that dangerous conditions of lead e^ sc^ sr&^ aife still persisting somewhere in the plants where the men are/ working. In tffls*'connection it should of course be emphasised that none of th? men in question has shewn the slightest svmptons of lead intoxi cation. Nevertheless the existing system for the control of the lead hazard instituted by Abad.anvcannot[ p e considered entirely satisfactory while one of the main checks, namely"tbe^iead content of the urine of the workers, continues to give anomalous results. I shall be forv/arding Dr. Kehoe's letter to Abadan at an early date and will let you have their comments in due course. Meantime when next you communicate with Dr. Kehoe will you please convey to him our keen appreciation of his help in this and allied subjects and assure him that we are only too pleased to co-operate with him in this matter. Yours sincerely, (Signed) C.A. Harrison. H. Fossett Esq., The Associated Ethyl Company Limited, Artillery House, Artillery Row, LONDON. S.Vi.l.