Public Health Service Investigation of the health hazard from leaded gasoline,to which I referred In my statement of January 15th, were published as Public Health Bulletin H o ,163 dated 1926.

Axtelli Til results of the U. s. public Health Service investigation of the health hazard from leaded gasoline,to which I referred in my statement of January 15th, were published as Public Health Bulletin Ho.165 dated 1926.

Hovember 12*1926.

JUNE, 1926.

Gentlemen The Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service issued Public Health Bulletin, Number I63, in 1926, having to do with regulations for the distribution of gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead.

Gentlemen: The Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service issued Public Health Bulletin, Number 165, in 1926, having to do with regulations for the distribution of gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead.

We have from 15,000 to 20,000 marketing companies who store leaded gasoline in a total of approximately 40,000 tanks.

e have from 15,000 to 20,000 marketing companies who store leaded gasoline in a total of approximately 40,000 tanks.

Leaded gasoline is handled at least four times from its manu facture* to~its ultimate consumption.

In the course of our field examinations we have not found any other largo number of cases of dermatitis or skin irritation in the cases of handlers of gasoline, other than a considerable dryness of the skip which is u s ually confined to the hands and wrists* It will be a matter of some Importance If the present gasolines which differ somewhat from the gasolines In use prior to 1926-27 by reason of the:cracked!

Seven men died and 33 were hospitalized there; meanwhile, ten more were killed at a DuPont facility, and at least two died and 40 were hospitalized in Dayton, Ohio.17-20 Leaded gasoline was the subject of a federal inquiry, but in 1926 the Public Health Service concluded that the dilute additive in gasoline posed no immediate threat to the public.

December IS,. 1926. .1.

Hazards Associated with the manufacture of Tetraethyl Lead and Leaded Gasoline.

Then when an amount of dust had collected corresponding to chat which occurs in a garage the oxhaust could have been shut off* The animals could then have boon made to live In this dusty room for a few weeks* An experiment of that sort would have approximated real conditions in a garage* It Is admitted in the report that the hazard from lead to workers in repair shops and garages will in future be comparable to that to which painters are exposed* To anyone uho knows how injurious are the effects of lead poisoning upon painters, this admission is sufficient to counteract all the claims in the report regarding the harmlessness of leaded gasoline* You are free to use these statements either publicly or for transmission to the New York Health Council, if you think they will be of use Sincerely yours, Y&ndell Henderson

COPY October 1, 1926.