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January JL, 1949 Dr. A. F. Lecklider, Medical Director, Fisher Body Division.. General Motors Corporation, Paquette and St.. Antoine, Detroit 2,. Michigan. Dear Doctor Lecklider; By the:time you receive this letter it may be received a package containing as many or the . J O' U/z: :ve U 1' `i; available .to us. Certain of the articles in or. nave been greatly depleted, and therefore ve have : -o send what v q ve found that ve had a numb* Lead Poisoning, and.we are : ted . Vi: Spl! v 0 ny ad vi,c e to you copI 0 f h:o hoc c-on <k < ymposium on Lng 15 r\*r * those to'you. I have written to Carl Peterson to i' me re o an ob Lamed , and if they lonai CO'pi e s L. O Vo ; 1 ! s \ <1 v.e course X ara sending you a bill to cove tho on of--po ckcl ext. ensc to us of sending you 25 copies of the American rut. i re 3 ica.*. 1 u ;m r. o cl a 11 on Report. The others, being our ovn product, are riale available io you without charge, since one of the primary Laboratory is to disseminate its own work. Some time ago I talked with Doctor Selby about, some of the variations in viewpoint of physicians on the problem of occaalionul lead poisoning. He seemed to think this was a problem of some serious ness in the General Motors organisation, and therefore I told L: ul that at some mutually convenient time 1 would be glad to meet th the doctors representing the various plants or a rep-resenrative group of them, and spend a day or wha vevci' i'Ui. . '- a.1-j jh - oCvi required.in covering this subject, The proof cm cf deal:.up up. i.n industrial lead exposure in these days is not very difficult from the medical viewpoint, if effective control of ...nous t r 1. a1 opera tiona is achieved! Otherwise the medical problem is impossible. if we could only .get the ...doctors, to understand this, we would simplify our whole situation greatly. It is fair to say, at the present time, that we know, how to^ maintain safe conditions, and that we know full veil what safe conditions are in specific and quantitative terms. If we cait"just get,'the doctors to recognise that there is nothing that they can do to `-prevent lead poisoning, under unsafe conditions of work, we would-then be able to put tire responsibility clearly where it belongs. ' This is'all that is necessary, for I am sure from my own- experience, that responsible management will do what is required of them' when they know in precise terms what is required Sxncerey yours, 0012 JL- Robert A* Kehoe* M. B * College of MedlQina Eden Avenue Cincinnati 19> Ohio January 23, 1949 Dr. A. F. Lecklider* Medical Director, Fisher Body Division* General Motors Corporation, Piquette and St. Antoine, Detroit 2, Michigan. 25 Copies "Occupational Lead Exposure and TLead Poisaown>i*ns argt ^" publi*1sinhe1-.dJ by American Public Health Association $ .75 each $18.75 tfg 0 G1 2 - ; *. N13947.01