Immediately thereafter, the Surgeon General appointed a committee of experts to continue the study of leaded gasoline, and its investigation, field survey and findings were published in Public Health Bulletin No. 163, in 1926.

EWW:CH Yours veiy--truXy, \ "COPY DEPARTMENT OP LABOR AED INDUSTRY Harrisburg December 9, 1926, Ur. 33 ,\7.

January 17, 1926.

X helped organise the lead Xaduatrlee Aaeoctatloa la 1926, becaae lta first secretary eod ultimately Its president.

----- The Conference adjourned after a good deal, of discussion, having > passed just before the adjournment a resolution that the matter be referred to the Surgeon General: that a Committee be appointed by him to report to him about the first of the next year -- January 1926 -- as to the dangers in the public use of the product.

Among these are radiation shielding from the X-ray room to atomic energy installations, insulating buildings against noises and vibrations, providing packaged power in the form of storage batteries, electric and communication cable shielding, soldering in modem electronic manufacturing, and as an additive to gasoline to give higher performance and greater economy of fuels for civilian and military use.

May 4, 1926.

January 1926.

While Zilo Is to be used in the same manner white lead it is NOT a lead substitute.

In running these tests, 11.5 grams of the clay were used in each case, 1220 cc. of the pressure distillate, which had a gasoline content of about 75 per cent, being charged.

Surgeon General February 10y 1926* Lrs* Grace L* Burnham, Y/orkers * Health Bureau, Broadway and Eleventh Street, Hew York City* Ly dear Lrs.

By 1926, It Was Well-Established That Lead Dust, Including Dust From Dry Paint Inside Houses, Could Poison____________________ 9 .

, salaries and travel ing expenses .exceed what you would consider a fair allottment for that work* in other words is the overhead expense attributable to medical work too high if jtfc stays at its present figure* I ask this entirely for Information because the present arrangement if it can be carried out gives an opportunity for experimental obsorvation and for a. rather high quality Of industrial medical work which is quite unique and in which I am very proud to have a part* hr, iebb October 14*1926 Page # 3 The above program which I have outlined has all of the appear ance of being quite in opposition to the one Milch you suggested.

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