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/A/> -X o forleadPoison Test .fc* 05 ^-Spokesmenfor cil expressedjdisappdmtment yekb&jdsy-qper the poor-tani- oa^l'uesday Mt.$he[start-df-testing program for lead A" poisoning amdhg^children In the Hunts Point community. -^`Obviously We did not do enough planning .and publicity" With representatives of the reity said Dr. Richard Iaquierdo, 'chair to devise plans to assure the test man -of -the council. <^Wre -kept ing-of all children between the open the San Juan Medical Cen ages of .1 and 6 in the area. "The ter from 5 to .9 in the^evening summer is a particularly danger and only conducted six tests." ous time for lead poisoning," A mobile testing unit also was JLahane said, -`because ' the sun stationed at 174th St. and South causes the hones to release the ac ern Blvd., but it^ too, -tested only cumulated lead into -the blood-, sii^children. The illness is usually stream." ' N contracted by eating "peelings of .Must Take Action'.'. . . i lead-based paint--and plaster -in ."We have to get them -mi -of old tenements. 1/A *' ; those dangerous apartments," he . Find dQ-VAcinus' ' . -continued, "and if we don1! find A one-day 'Community-, health places elsewhere in the city, we'll campaign was conducted 4n the have to pat them in area last month. Gut of ^.chil dren tested, 40 were: found ;fet be Paul Mejias, board chairman suffering from llead poisoning. of the Bronx Children's Psychi Eight Qf'them were hospitalised. atric Hospital has offered space Dr. Stanley B. Kahane, director for -the victims. A telegram has -of community medicine at Bronx- been sent to <Jov. Rockefeller re Lebanon Hospital, which conduct questing, approval for the off' ed the tests' in cooperation-with The schedule for future fe the Hunts-Point Community Corp has not been completed yet. 1 called the situation '"the largest] ever, persons wishing -to ha single epidemic ever to hit a par their children tested are urged ticular, age group in, the city." eaU WY 2-4200 and ask for Mr The Health Planning Council, She will advise them of -made up of 35 Bronx civic groups and when tests will be I and. hospitals, has;-been meeting-^gonducted. .... 0000-NLI-OOQG20693