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^Lead Poisoning Peril AU624 8/2&J Camden Starts Revealed in Camden. By Board of Health Attack on tead(folsoiP> The^'city ..of, Camden'lias hunched a mufti-pronged at tack an the lead poison men ace to children. . The program at .present is centered in a CD-black area of sonlli Camden but the city eventually hopes to. make de tection and medlctt referral services available to residents throughout Camden! In the tint two find a half weeks at the proniam, the 1 city made S3Z frame Inspec tions in (he designated area and referred Ml (Mldrew be tween the ages oljl and 8 lor blood tests; J Herron, Nardi In Charge Harry" Herron, Stealth coor dinator for the coy. and Cam den County, who is directing the program with Mayor Jo- srph'M. Nardi jjr., said re ports on the llttl 70 children tested resulted fin one child Itring hospitalifcd fnr lead poisoning. He jiaid IS other children had significant amounts of lead in their sys tems and anniher IS lesser amounts. | Reports on the home Inspec tions, made to! determine the lead content of paint used In the dwellings, f are not com plete, Herrtm said. The area designated for the pilot studies Is a section being improved umlfer the federalstate Neighborhood improve ment Program and Mayor Nardi said the city would seek additional funding from' NIP lor the lead poisoning pro gram. Lead-Based Paint Banned The area is hounded by At lantic ave.. Pine St., Broad way and the Delaware River, and remains a total of 1,85,1 homes. Herron said the project, when fully Implemented, will include educational programs and law enforcement in addi tion to home inspections and Wood tests. A recently passed state law bans the use of lead-based paint and requires landlords cither to remove lead-based paint up to a height of four Ircl or cover it over with pro tective paneling. City Makes Tests Herron said the city now tests for lead content in paint hy making scrapings. However, starling Monday, he said, the city will have a special appliance, containing n radioisotope, for lead detec tion. Medical referrals under (he pitot project are being han dled hy the city health depart ment station at ZDth and Fed eral sis. In cooperation with Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Cantdrn. t h e NEW YORK TIMES. SUNDAY,'AUGUST 27,197! IEW BLOOD TESTS lead-base paint that peel from the walls of old housing. The1 problem Is said to Involve 8 10 HELP CH1LDREB; per cent of the children In such Icicles as Newark. * In addition, the problem , Simple Method Developed lead poisoning in aduttgrMTeceiving attention toeSuse lead In Lead Poisoning Drive exists fn so mafflrieverydaysub tj|r. BfiiANtY Hic k s stances--gasdfinc, ceramic dinnerwareylu Ink In color pobli- UHUltontsnmtmi cation^r NEWARK, Aug. 26 -- Rc-j Thychlldhood problem has sarchers at the stale medical!ibteq/S major public health con- c-h--o--o-l--h-e--r-e.h--a--v-e developed an:! Severe lead poisoning has etremely simple method x known to cause train Electing minute blood saftimes1 damage and even death. The > test for childhood lead key to prevention lies in clean* aisootwg. >/ Ing up old housing and in find* TflFtncthod, catted papcr-ln-a-' fog children with elevatedf ip, involves a pin-prick punc- blood-lead levels before iymp* ire in the finger from which a toms occur. ' rap of blood Is blotted up by. For many years testing of piece of white filter paper. A| children proved difficult be* no-quatter-inr.ii circular (piece cause blood lead analysis had f blood-saturated papfr is to be performed on large sam* unched out with a regular com-, pies of blood taken by hypoder*. tereial hole puncher, {which mic needle from the vein of the ives testers a standanLslzed child's ann or neck. 1 ample without having meas- Over the last few years, how , -c the amount of Moodfdrawn. ever. Instrumentation and mate*' The blood-saturated ifipcr dot rials have been developed that /then placed in a'tiijy mota! make analysis of small samples; up and put into the flame of] possible. New York City, for; atomic absorption | spcctro- example, began testing by using" botometcr, which can measure a measured amountof blood lo content of lead or other taken from the finger. iclals. British Scientist Cited The papcr-In-a-cup method, -as developed by Dr Morris nsclnw ami Dr. John Boden,) otii chemists. Because it obiates the necessity of measure* icnt and detailed preparation] f samples, it could possibly How cheap and easy door-tooor testing for lead poisoning.' Mainly Childhood Disease All stteh community screen h r efforts thus far have re tmred the use of trained' Dr. Josclow said that he had got his idea for collecting samples without measuring from a British scientist who reported in January that he had taken samples of blood in an Instrument called a capillary tube, put some drops on a piece of paper, punched (Item out with the tiotc puncher, plated them in the tiny cup and put them Into the flame of the caivhemcl/ehh.pnniillddiecchlahocpnioolosddlilrseedoctnointsiinennagdgis.boebisltethhpaecrthimoibpcalscoruoiorldysfi(I,scgleporKcIeennt\caittoa<ttrbnlmoUyyp(ipdnh/saiaomtvsettmsioipnnim,ngisgvehtwtthteehh>edree,.. special colchances ot sample are Dr. Josclow I By BILL THOMPSON Of Tfit fw<jnirr SI*// CAMDEN. - A two week- . survey by the local health department has revealed a sizable polsoninj problem hi '`SflMdJ'fclft. reported Wednes lay Hut S32 homes have bo i visited in the past two wo a bv health Barkers in sran-l ol(icad poison3& in children from ages 1 to t. {(< "There's evidence that lead poisoning docs exist," Nardi . said. "It's partdulalry crucial ' in our ghetto neighborhoods."' HARRY HERMAN, city health officer, said 7D of 161 1 children have received blood tests as a result of the survey and that 15 children were found to have lead poisoning. The urea being surveyed -is bouaded by J'inc st. on the North, Allan lie ave. on the South, Broad ray on the East and the Del iware River on the West. About HO n}fore children are expected to get blood tests next Friday, [Herman said, as the survey c minutes in the 65 black area which includes 1,850 homes. Herman s lid the survey should be c mpleted by the end of Oetobc'1 Nardi said he children are being tested r the health cen ter at 76th i id Federal sts. and that a 5 I.IHI0 instrument to indicate ic d and paint will be available to the city Mon- day. j WHEN T E instroment in dicates leac hi paint, Herman said, the k ndiord will be or dered to re nove the paint and replace wi h a paint of less than one p recta lead content. Herman added that lead poisoning c ses are those chil dren who re found to have' "to microf rams or more of lead" in lb ir blood. HEALTH WORKERS have been able s gel information about lead poisoning by ask ing parent, if their children have a histt ry of pica. Nardi said the solution to lead poisoning is slum clear ance and urban renewal. N39140