Saturday morning, Fritz end X made lead-in-air analyser tests as noted on attached reports.

NATIONAL LEAD COMPANT, et al.

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Sayer stated in explaining the need for doctors making complete reports On these reports depend in a large measure the position of the insurer in accepting liability and in determining its preliminary reserve Medical reports are a prime necessity if the compensation law is to be fairly and adequately administered Difficult to Define Coverage and any of the other toxic or harmful substances enumerated in the law Given exposure if sufficiently prolonged and intense the disease is presumed to be characteristic of and peculiar to the employment without exposure the disease cannot be considered to be occupational Nor can an exposure to toxic substance in itself be deemed sufficient to make a diagnosis The diagnosis must be definite and determined by medical observations and procedures including necessary laboratory and pathological findings And when diagnosis is made the condition may then be considered as to the degree and extent of exposure and the relationship of one to the other as a cause The other common method of pro- viding coverage for occupational dis- cases set forth in some laws is the general or inclusive coverage under which method specific diseases or disease conditions are not named in the law but the law provisions include occupational disease by vague general language or by attempted definition WDC C Are Lag Hope Ja Meeting Results Some of th cussed with b damage mon have profited it has promp their values a experience is Connecticut a ing the curities first war available Ea to get the cov covered that Although compensation for specific orcupational disease is the natural corollary of compensation for accident with- out fault almost insuperable difficulties in defining the coverage have been en- countered due to the impossibility of exactly defining the term occupational discase Not all diseases affecting or acquired by workers are occupational diseases not even all diseases that occur in the course of employment That cannot be too strongly emphasized Nor is an occupational disease law to be regarded as the employer's contribution to a general health law for workers In an ef- fort to define and delimit properly the occupational disease coverage there have developed two general methods one the called schedule law and the other the open or inclusive law The sched ule law sets forth in a list embodied in the law all the diseases or disease con- ditions for which liability is sought to be established under the law These in diseases are frequently related the law to specific working conditions or processes in which there is a characteris- tic hazard of the specific disease Thus for example lead poisoning is a disease occurring among men who work with or handle or are exposed to lead in some form If a man who works with lead develops lead poisoning it will be conclusively presumed that he got the poisoning in his employment If perand however develops lead poisoning and it is conclusively shown that he does not handle lead or work with it and is in no way exposed to lead or lead fumes it cannot be said that his lead poisoning is an occupational disease and it must be caused by some exposure out- side his employment Definite Diagnosis Needed What has been said of lead may be said equally of arsenic mercury benzol the severity of the penalty imposed on culprits who are convicted of stealing rationed articles Demand Is Reputed Brisk Experienced thieves will concentrate in one particular area for a time and when it gets too hot for them they move on to greener fields Demand for burglary coverage is reported brisk This is said to be due to two reasons Merchants through no action of their own may have an increase in the value of their stocks from 10,000 to 15,000 with replacement very difficult The larger amount of money in circulation and good business is causing many to give more attention to their insurance coverage and they do not hesitate to lay down the money for the necessary premiums Broader Law Has Drawbacks Seemingly this type of law would be more easily administered for the administrative authority would not seen to be bound by the rigid restrictions and limitations of the schedule form of law But that is not there are other necessarily the case as tests that must be ap- plied when discases do not fall within the common category of occupational Such common and deadly diseases as pneumonia tuberculosis and heart dis- ease occur among workers just as they do among the industrial people When then if ever may such diseases be regarded as occupational The ques tions that may arise in connection with such diseases are very difficult and may lead to long expensive and discouraging litigation In the one case both employers and workers are fully informed of the disease conditions for which the one is permitted to claim and for which the other is liable The coverage is not so broad because nature of its certainty and definite In the other case the coverage may be theoretically more broad but it is shrouded in such vagueness and uncer- tainty that the right to compensation may not be determined until after lengthy hearings and protracted legal process All Are Concerned These seem to be the alternatives that present themselves in the develop- ment of occupational disease legislation up to the present time The medical profession can contribute to the study of the fairest and most satisfactory method of providing coverage for oc- cupational diseases in the shape of things to come It is a question that should not be left wholly to the lawyers or to the industrialists or to labor although the views of all these parties must be taken into account Those views should be based upon informed opinion and the information to be supplied by the doctors could be most impressive In one jurisdiction the state law has provided for a medical board of three physicians having special qualifica

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An almost straight--line relationship exists between the amount of lead and Vitol evaporated--2% of the TEL for every 1% of the liquid.

. :1 728 00 2,785.00: 43.407.91: 2,546.00: 2,737-00: Contributions Subscription to Lead Industries Association, Metallic Lead Products Division for third quarter of 1948, Lead Industries Association, membership for third quarter of 1948, including safety and hygiene-- $2,453.50; Bed Lead Division--$598.50.

METAL QUOTATION: The New York City quotation for comaon lead and the East St.

Blumbarg No. 5113 TRANSACTIONS ' 29th NATIONAL SAFETY CONGRESS GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL SES.SIONS- CHICAGO OCTOBER 7-11, 1940 i i .I ii i > NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL, INC. ( 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago Copyright, 1940, Notional Safety Council, Inc. * frinted in tho U.

Kehoe: In the early part of this year I mentioned to you a discussion that had taken place in the Lead Industries Association concerning lead poisoning publicity.

I ;just hay received word from Doctor Lanahan that the Executive Vice President of the company is now in favor of periodic lead determinations in urine, and has asked for a detailed program.

Abex further objects to this interrogatory on the ground that the information it seeks otherwise lacks relevance to the issues arising in this case, and is not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.

Pig Lead - Purchasing Department to check on types of Lead that produce best finished product and buy that type hereafter.