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' '3 August 12, 1963 1 wa nrswn ak p 6Arm Buurra To H*iri ef tha lead Industries Association, Inc.i ttormawr ak k c ab avtanamoi or aauaooo k q b x m In tha July 19$3 IHM of the A--rleaa Mlctl Association's Archives of Bjvlnawotel Hwltli there la u article entitled "Benel Function Subsequent to Childhood flue51--". This consist# of a report of aa Investigation by Sr. Lloyd >. Tapper fcnerly vlth tha Bernard School of Public Beelth and now nth tha U. . Atcmlo Boergy Co--laaloa. Sr. Tapper's Investigation eooalsted of a fallow-up ct 165 --A>ycte who had baas diagnosed aa haring pluafelaa aa children In tha Boston araa twenty to thirty-five yaara ago. The purpose of hla Investigation h i to laqnln Into tha Incidence of renal (kldaay) dlaaaaa --erg thla group of foraar laad oaaaa. Of tha group of 16} subjects, Dr. Tapper auoceaded la traolag 139 end of thaaa only @ooa la raportad to have died of ehrosla raoal dlaaaaa, aad that could not be shown aa eosoactad nth plafilta. Drtallad aad thorough screening taata of raoal fuactlsa faro conducted on e2 of tha 139 aObJecta traced aad no evidence of raoal lapslr--at u feuad. . i Aa those of aa eho ara fanTlar nth tha aarllar Aoatiallaa work of Bye, Basdaraos at al, parforaad Is Quaenaland, nil raoogslaa, Dr. Tappar'a work Indicates tha exact oppoelte of that nicb was raportad frea Australis. Por laataaea, Sanderson raportad that la a follow-up of tOl children adnltted to a Oiaanaland Boepltal nth a dlagaoala of pliablxs, lj died under tha aga of forty, aad of tha l$ d--tha, 101 --ra attributed to nephritis or renal sclerosis. Bye, In an aarllar work, had raportad -- aaan hlgbar percentage of deaths fros kidney die--la anong Queensland oaaaa of slnllar history. Therefore Tappar'a wort bate--a, to our knowledge, tha first report In the literature to contravene coaplately the Australian work. It la true, of course, that tha Australian artlclaa have not bean corrcboiatcd elscvbere la tha world literature but now wa have a report of a follow-up study which la a lei1s t la lte choice of subjects to thoea la Auatralla, and ihlch la at least aa thorough and careful la ltd --thodology aad vorkaanablp aa that of Its pradacaaaora. Bine# there has bean a belief that laad results la kidney da--ga and thla belief baa bean bald by nany --share of tha --dlcal profession It la --11 for tie to fea-- thla docu--ated refutation of such beliefs. In this respect, aay I refer you to tha article--ntlcosd la our last prtrlous Bulletin Bo. 1}1 la which Sr. Salth also reports on a follow-up of children's lead oases and In --lch 00 cllnloal ahnomalltlaa --ra found la uxsoapllcsted poisonings after fle yaara. CQfi at Son 0. Fowler I