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PHILADELPHIA 0A1LT HEWS WEDNESDAY, Wit II, ISU 1 Mctal-Poisetted ChildMayBeDeaf,NofRetardedDocllinfs An experimental psycltolo- might just be deaf and the cury are consumed In sea gist at Jefferson Medical Col- deafness could have _cnmfs food," Dr. Wilpizeskl said. iege studying the effects of about through/'lead or mer- j He says he doesn't believe metal poisoning on hearing "cury" poisdilnig." Sgys*"Drr that the lead in the atmos says he suspects that some' Chester H. WilplasihL* phere is a danger, however. - eliiUlrcn termed mentally re- "For a child to learn to . "I'm primarily interested in tardea plight. not he Jtfankvl -|alk, he must be able to hear. : the effect on bearing, but at ally1.;'!! 1 0 la/d Mil .if his verbal development is that's only part of tire general `'Snme of these childu-hcliiitd sclieduic, he is some- effect of these -poisons on the times termed retarded. But nervous system. suppose he's deaf?" "We live wtih this stuff," he DR. WILP1ZESKI said said. "We must learn' as ghetto children are most sus much about it as wd can." ceptible to lead poisoning be Dr. Wilpizcksi said there cause they tend to chetr on have been no scientific studies window sills and base boards on- the effects of internal de- painted with cheap leaded-' 'posits of lead and mercury paints. Mercury poisoning poisoning on the sensory could become au increasing nerves. threat through Inadequate dis posal of industrial waste. "Also brain damage and sometimes death are caused when large amounts of mer "That's what our study Is all about," he says. HE IS AT TIIE midway point of a three-year study under a grant by the National . Institute of Environmental I Health Sciences. i "We've been feeding. red " monkeys," he said. "This summer well feed them mer cury. We measured the hear ing and equilibrium levels of the monkeys before the tests started to compare the nor mal levels as the tests pro gress. "Right now, we've reached no cancUisimis. We're still col lecting data, day by day." Jfft3W4 28 B Thursday* Jtrnt 13 1974 ChildjPoisoned..) B Landlord Judge Backs Owner on Lead Paint By GUNTER DAVID Of me jti/Nffin Staff Philadelphia Commod getting rid ol the lead paint. The dty health rode per mits no lead paint on walls because, small children could Pleas Jude* Ned L. Hirsh, be poisoned by ticking the hearing * lead paint ease, ex paint. / pressed sympathy with the *'I was only kidding when I defendant landlord yesterday because, be said, he himsell is a landlord. The case concerned a re quest by the city lor a court order to get rid of lead paint nn mills in an apartment at lass N. 24th at., where a child waa poisoned last October. Judge Hirsh refused to said I owned 120 apartment units," Jijdge Hirsh told The Bulletin yesterday afternoon. "I own (several commercial' propertied and one apartment house ini the MOO block ol Spruce it. It contains tlx apartments and the leases have a clause that rental it only for single people. My son lives In pne or the apart grant the city'a request on ments, anV there are no chi)-' j grounds that the child. La- ! mnnt Roach, 2, no longer ` lives in the apartment, the Irbitd was diagnosed as suiter ing tram lead poisoning lot- dren in Hit building." He said the building D 50 to 60 years old. and that he has owned It lor about 25 years. Asked II the walls contain ' Ining laboratory tests hy the lead paint, he Said, "I don't city's Department nt Health. know. Rut It doesn't matter The judge suggested. In- because there ere no children stead, that the tenant, Mrs. in the building." Viola Raich, the child's A Health Department grandmothrr. sign an atli- spokesman said yesterday davit promising that nn rhil- that the presence or absence dim will he permitted into ol children in an apartment the apartment. The city re with lea d-painted walls fused the judge's suggestion. makes nn difference as far as Mis. Roach was not in rnnrt. the health code regarding According lo persons in the lead poison is concerned. court. Judge Hirsh said he owned more than 120 apart ment units and cnuld see no sense in potting the landlord. David M. Goldberg, nt UT1 Judge Hirsh subsequently agreed to a proposal by the city to Issue a court order to the landlord, prohibiting chil dren under the age of sis In | Girard nvr,, to the expense nt the apartment._________ l^oinftGro,nl, p TheHJ.S. Diy;mWmuiH Mousing and l'rh;ui l)cvt'lo|ijiicnl (1IUO) has hoofso comenu'd aljtijf eliminating fcnd-haseU (KiiiU liuKird-s si old lionses -- the pro1>* ` lent stalled alnjosi all Fll.Vmsured 1 gages in Philadelphia until a compromise was reached recently -- that ;i h.* given three researeg grants totaling $854,099 to firms that wfll try to find the most ef* firrent way lo remove the. paint. Maw.lmln forleodsPSIidp Tests' PhiladeIphta"TSs receive;) a 51.163,600 grant '-- V. S. Department ; f Health. I Education and 5 ttaue a prograi children for i , - 5 to cm- j , The ChUdbv LPeoaisd_o_nP_in_og_l.s-. fonlng Control project, now In I.t.s. third yea; tests children hfriog_mh..-.r.i.os-nke.a.rhmXy sT yean Old in and provides treatment for those with a lead count of 40 micro- grain* or more in their blood. eadPoisbning AtP"IllJtlPtlctRuitll Tilln and lecture tin the detevilon and ' control of lead jioisoning wilt lie shown Weiliiasitny at 7 P. M. at Hie Paaihitll t.litlilren's (filler and S/telal Services, 7212 Wouithiidl are., South-' west IHiilinleUihlu. 'the liilluii/iig tVeilnesdsy, Oil. :I0. a nubile unit lionl l ily llriilili I'liiiic Nu. 3 will lie staliiniMlf at the I'liiladetpliia lloujiig Amliurlly's nianagenieia office a( the same address for Hie testing of rhildrenuor lead poisoning. The Pa/chstl Apartments, which are operated by the Philadelphia Housing Author ity, were Adjudged tree ol any lead paint hazard during an extensive examination last N39141