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21 April 1956 A. P. feint osh, C.apfc* USAF (IfC) United States Air .Force hospital BacDIll Air Force Base, Florida . Dear Captain McIntosh: . re have been informed o f .the removal from work of Picas s, __ arid. Because of the information we have In corrospondonee dat f^^l jrxAlgust 1955 (to Mr* A. -T, Baldwin) we are presuming that the three ytlcal results given in the original letter were dotormin atIons on blood of those three men* _ 'A'e have asked Colonel John Boy sen of the Industrial '-'e ileal faction cf the Air Force Medical Corps to inquire into the parti cults.rs of the Lth status of these men but believe it advantageous to p .it into your containers for the collection of blood and urine caiapHoa before we pje tho requested information from Colonel Boyson on tn 3 presumption we would want tho samples aftor the receipt of the row art Vfyi If our presumption that those three rsn have been roMOsrod from their laboratory job because of the analytical findings for lead arc correct please collect samples of both blood and urine from these n n according to rifle instructions which, accompany tho containers and rcfcufmr them to us fdfJanaiysos '.'.0 are very doubtful that these men have absorbed sign if'leant amounts of organic lead as a result of thoir potential exposure to ;otraethyl lead in the laboratory unless some overt exposure has occurred, This is because (3\\ f]e have never seen evidence of significant exposure in <en engaged in \\ lfihis kind of work and would not expect it unless there iad been an ^vAmusual -occurrence such as spillage on. the-skin which was not cloaned promptly and adequately or unless"spillage had occurred outside the hood and therefore created heavy concentrations of cry a aIc lead In `the respiratory air from which the men were not removed nor protected. (2) The last report which we have seen on analytical results given in - lit* Pissuto*s letter to A* ,T. Baldwin of 29 March is no consistent with organic -lead exposure for reasons given fully in D|r , :'oboofs letter to you of 10 October 19h5> ' For the reasons- given in this letter of Dr. Kehoe `s it Is necessary for intelligent interpretation of the analytical findings o:U people with exposure to organic load to have those findings on both bio 'aI ynd urine. B. ?. Uc-Intosh Capt. - (2) - 21 April 1956 rThe level of 92 micrograras mentioned in Lt. Pizzuto's lette^ if truly representative of the .concentration of load in blood would y c c t absorption of ..inorganic load rather than organic*. Vo shall inform you of our results and our interprtt; immediately after our analyses Very truly yours, ;'3|0ivr j! :c - hr. V. A. uehoe y Colonel John Boysen 'Tfctatod tut not road. i ; Loster '7. ganders, VD. . J4i s\ ;' W! !: 0017336 ;U: