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July 28, 19^6 Mr. Je3 se Lioberman, Chief Industrial Sanitation Section Department of Public Health Division cf Air Pollution Control and Environmental Sanitation Room 6 30 , City Hall Annex Philadelphia 7 Pennsylvania Dear hr. Lieborman; I have moved as rapidly as I could to reply to your letter of duly 3rd because of the nature of the case on which you asked for ny opinion. Unfor tunate1 y I have been hard pressed, and my correspondence has suffered. The situation which y_ou have described,_ with resp_ect to .e child's aou unusual. De have nearly a score of such cases annually .* to Crti*ne::4 mati, and this is true of other similar communities in which tl ;re are adequate case-finding and diagnostic facilities. It is a reasonable and almost certain conclusion that child contracted lead poisoning within his ovrn home from the toys or other sources, including surfaces painted with lead-containing paints. If the foundry contributed to this at all - and this Is mentioned only for 'the sake of completeness - It did so by depositing lead-particles or floor, window-sills, etc., of the home. If it was not handling lead-containing alloys - and no aluminum foundry has reason to do so, so far as know - it made no such contribution. The contribution made by the soil outside tile home was negligible if not altogether aero. It would be utterly fantastic to attribute any appreciable hazard to this factor, in the face of the common ness of the occurrence of lead poisoning from the other cause. Cordially yours, RAK:jw 0012307 N14004 Robert A, Kphoe, fu D.