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January 31, 19^9 Dr. A. F. Lecklider, Medical Directcr, Fisher Body Division., General Motors Corporation, Piquette and St., Antoine, Detroit 2, Michigan. Dear Doctor Lecklider By tlie:time you receive this letter it may ho avg received a "package, containing as many of the r available ,to U3. Certain of the articles in oUj,' on a vq been greatly depleted, and therefore we have- La d to s e n d w h a t w e rather 'thancould what you requested. Despite trj ad v i e . e t o y o u foundwe that ve had a number of copies of the O y , T't B o J v tvA j, O i, y m p o s i u K i io n areLead Poisoning, aiid.we sexiding 1-5 of chose "Co ' y o u . .L h a v e written to Carl Peterson to see .if more can bo o d t a i n e d ? a n d i f t h e y have them, I will forward additional copies ,,o j w u i n d o.e c o u r s e . I am sending you a bill to cover the out-of-pocket expense to us of sending you 25 copies of the Amor can Public health Association Report, The others, being our own p: odnet, are made available to you without charge, since one of the p r im a r y f u n o o ,u o f o v s Laboratory is to disseminate its own ' o m . Some time ago I talked with Doctor Selby about, some of the variations in viewpoint of physicians on the problem of occaat.lon.nl lead poisoning. He seemed to think this wa u-ocjiem o; ;ome serious- ness in the General Motors organisatien, nArnd therefore C told hi .a that at some mutually convenient time 1 would glad to meet wi the doctors representing the various plan Is c: group of them, and spend a day or whatever Lp- required,in covering, this subject. The pi.1O 1cm f dealing wiin industrial lead exposure in these days is not veryv diif.ficul"t from the medical.tviewpoint -, if effective control of indus trial operations is achieved- "-Otherwise the medical problem is impossible. If wo could only ...get the, doctor3. to understand this > we would simplify our whole situation greatly. It is fair to say, at the present time, that -we- -khov.'-hpw- 'toriaaintaln safe conditions, and that we know full well what safe conditions are in specific and quantitative terms. topreventIf we can' just get,, the doctors to recognise that there is nothing that they can do lead poisoning, under unsafe conditions of work,, we would- then be able to put tl-.e responsibility clearly where it belongs. ' This is all that is necessary, for I am euro from my own- experience, that responsible management will do wiurt is required of them'when they know in precise terms what is required K 0012. !- Sincerely yours, Bobert A * Kehoe, M . D . College of Medicine Eden Avenue : Cincinnati.19'Ohio - January 2 5 , 19 ^ 9 Dr. A. F. Lecklider, Mdical Director, Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corporation, Piquette and St. Antoine, Detroit 2, Michigan. 25 Copies "Occupational Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoningtf published by American Public Health Association $ -75 each $13.75 he 0 f\+ O "5 V IA d