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July 28, 1956 Mr. Jesse Lieberman, Chief Industrial Sanitation Section Department of Public Health Division cf Air Pollution Control and Environmental Sanitation Room 630, City Hall Annex Philadelphia 7, Pennsylvania Dear Hr. Lieberman: I have moved as rapiddal.yj as I could to renly to t o u t letter ox July 3rd because of the nature of the case on which you asked for ny opinion* Unfortunately I have been hard pressed, aann.d my correspondence has suffered* The situation which you have described, with respect to the child's toys is not unusual Re have nearly a score of such cases annually la Cincinnati, and this is true of other similar communities in which there are adequate case-finding and diagnostic facilities* It Is a reasonable and almost certain conclusion that this child contracted lead poisoning within his own home from the toys or other sources, including surfaces painted with lead-containing paints If the foundry contributed to this at all - and this is mentioned only for the sake of completeness - it did so by depositing lead-particles on the floor, window-sills, etc., of the home* If it was not handling load-containing alloys - and no aluminum foundry has reason to do so, so far as I know - it made no such contribution. The contribution made by the soil outside the home was negligible if not altogether sero. It would be utterly fantastic to attribute any appreciable hazard to this factor, in the face of the common ness of the occurrence of lead poisoning from the other cause. Cordially yours. RAK:jw Robert A, Khoe, i'.l, D.