Airborne lead during dry compounding existed in sufficient quantities to be considered a health hazard.

Airborne lead during dry compounding existed in sufficient quantities to be considered a health hazard.

In accordance with our safety regulations, we are enclosing a booklet pertaining to our precautions for handling organic lead compounds in laboratories and a release concerning the use of the material* Would you kindly sign and return the latter to us promptly.

Tentative agenda AMTOAL MEETHP I LEAD IHPU5TRIES A5S0CIATI0M April 27, 1?

Kehoe Director - Kettering Laboratory University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Dear Dr* Kehoe, The paint industry in this area has been concerned with reported cases of lead poisoning in young children of this city* We are trying to collect as much information on this subject as possible, so as to properly approach the problem* Tour name has been mentioned as an outstanding authority on the subject, I would indeed appreciate your assistance in our investigation by referring us to any information you may have published on the subject of "Lead Poisoning in Young Children", Any suggestions that you might have would be most welcome.

I wonder whether investigators oay sufficient attention to the use of good oxidation pro cedures in the analysis for lead.

Granted that massive exposure to lead may in rare instances be causative of optic neuritis, this alleged contention relative to lead paints strikes me as quite utterly screwy.

We are wondering if you have ever had any occasion to evaluate the toxicity of such metal alkyls, particularly tetraphenyl lead.

Graham Edgar Ethyl Corporation 100 Park Avenue New York City 17 Dear Graham: In an Inhalation experiment involving human exposure to lead oxide vhich ve are conducting, we prepare particulate lead oxide by burning TEL vapor and propane in air.

It seems prota bio that the quantity of lead which was In the well eater,as drawn from the faucet, was largely due to the finely divided distribution of gasoline droplets within the sample which did not emplefeeXy separate out* This m y or may not be the case# but in any ease the water la much too grossly contaminated with leed to be suitable for use, and X* therefore* hope that the well was abandoned in accordance with Mr#':^eCooXey*s recommendation* '.v have not gone to any further trouble to attempt the determination of the act state in which the lead was present In either sample I see no point In any further investigation '.since it is Quite olear that the water is not suitable for use# .- Very truly yours* RAK fl8 eo Mr# lewis R o b e r t ' $hoe*ini:*D

In accordance with our safety regulations, we are enclosing a booklet pertaining to our precautions for handling organic lead compounds in laboratories and a release concerning the use of the material.

Wornser, Secretary Lead Industries Associetlon, 420 Lexington Are., Hew York, IJ.Y.

I wonder whether investigators oay sufficient attention to the use of good oxidation pro cedures in the analysis for lead.

Settler's testimony as to lead in food, I doubt if it will be possible to obtain an expert who will be in position to give adequate testimony.

"Most all the doctors tell me I have what they call `lead poisonin' from this Ethel gasoline..