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January 6, 19^3
Miss Margaret S. Ferry, Editor,
Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology,
55 Shattuek Street,
Boston, M s s .
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Dear Miss Perrys
In accordance with your request of December yi9 we are for
warding a copy of the legends for figures 1, 2, and 4, of Dr. Dreessents paper #5*
We are retaining a copy in case you wish us to sake the additions to the galley proof.
Sincerely yours,
BAK ef
Enc.
Robert'A Ttehoe, ii7'W*
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COPY.
FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY-
U . S . PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
BETHESDA, MARYLAND -
January 19.^5
AIRMAIL
Dr . R - A . Kehoe ,
Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology,
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Dear D r . Kehoe:
This will acknowledge your telegram of this date requesting the legends for figures 1, 2, and. k of my paper entitled "A Study of the Health of Workers Exposed to Lead in the Manu facture of Storage Batteries1'.
They are as follows '
Figure 1. - Flow sheet of operations in storage battery manu facture .
Figure 2. - Distribution of blood lead and urinary lead values (dithizone method) in relation to atmospheric lead concentration. The percentage of workers whose blood (or urinary) lead values fell within speci fied ranges is shown, by the heights of vertical bars. Values for lead-affected workers are shown by solid black bars; values'for nonaffected workers are represented by hatched bars.
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- A comparison of the average systolic and diastolic blood pressures of storage-battery workers of speci fied age with the corresponding values for 6,667 male industrial workers employed.in the pottery, post-office, glass, gas., foundry, steel, chemical, cement, and cigar industries (l8).
By direction, Chief of Division.
Sincerely yours,
0015248
W. C. Dreessen, Durgeon Chief, Medical Unit,