. , sollne containing Tetraethyl Lead is handled, and i N ^ h e r thayjiwrosene should be available to wash the hands in case any spilj.age^ecu^y' Again employees have been given instructions to wash carefully witlaTJdap and water before eating food or smoking.

Events leading up to this spill were as follows: a) Department 5 was shut down Thursday, August 13, 1959, and 5D1 and 5D2 were left inventoried while repairs were being made to 5D3 feed line. b) As work progressed on 5D3 feed line Friday, instructions were given to the chief operator to bring 5D1 and 5D2 up on total reflux. c) Shortly after the steam was opened to 5D1 reboiler, the top pressure went off scale and organics began spilling from 5E1 flame arrestor. d) The steam to 5D1 reboiler was immediately blocked in and the column'3 sump and overhead cut to slop and the spill stopped.

Hillman's inquiry to you was generated by the fact that he is serving as chairman of a Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning of the Hew York Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association by appointment of Mr.

v i s it, Inasmuch as the subject of atmospheric lead is .such a complicated one and so diverse, I mould awreciate it very much if you mould contact both Dr.

Dear Henry: Your letter of August 23 concerning the agreement of the Surgeon General with the manufacturers of tetraethyl lead came during my vacation and, therefore, it did not receive the prompt response which it deserved in view of its timeliness.

The concept was abandoned, reportedly due to uneven braking leading to a directional pull when braking.

This leads to the supposition that it is as the two of you -wish it, a desire which I can both understand and respect, much as I would welcome your support in what seems to me a warrantable endeavor to secure better medical service to a substantial group of workers.

Searles informed me she had brought into the ChMldrepi's Hospital a leg from the kitchen table and a leg from the dining-room chair for lead analysis of the painted surface.

. : Electical Systom underground I was wised competent riolane of the appalling state of up by some very existed in the wiring underground and no affairs that several reporte of mon boing knocked earthing etc. while I have had the fhoes Also requested that this handling their Leads at matter be dealt with at once J.

Sander had ventured the opinion that silicosis will virtually dis appear in the next 25 years, you felt that you could say that this would not be the case with lead poisoning, and that you believed that pluralism is as common in industry today as it was in much earlier times.

Keh oe ' D ir e ct o r , Ketterin g Laboratory- U n iversity of Cin cin n ati C in cin n at i, Ohio D ear Bob: I ap p r e ciat e you r w ritin g m e in d e t ail abou t the lead balan ce qu estion .

av ailab le your film on lead poison in g in n at ives at Panama which I saw in New York on th e day before we l e f t fo r London.

"nrohihits the potiis:;i-v : offer, s;Le or cionrtlcn in Hew York ':. .y of ary paint :_vlf. nor; than IS of lead (;<t attained &s l?

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In as much as the quantities of lead found in such a sampleunder normal conditions, are ex* ceedlngly minute, it is necessary to exercise great caution in the collection of a sample of urine so that np contamination from dust of any kind may occur.