Dept, of Commerce, Sept. 1972 - Steering Committee, LH-208, Epidemiologic Study of a Lead Con taminated Area, International Lead Zinc Research Organization, Inc.

Dept, of Commerce, Sept. 1972 - Steering Committee, LH-208, Epidemiologic Study of a Lead Con taminated Area, International Lead Zinc Research Organization, Inc.

Numerous cases of lead poisoning had occurred .

See special section devoted to lead poisoning.

Saw a number of doctors and one diagnosed lead poisoning.

We have never seen lead poisoning or measurable lead absorption in any filling station employee or in any refinery handler of leaded gasoline.

However, to return to normal civilian conditions, we have looked in vain for twenty years for a single case of lead poisoning, or ior the evidence of a single occurrence of measurable lead absorp tion, on the part of persons who handle gasoline regularly and in all ways- Ve have never seen lead poisoning o.r measurable lead absorption in any filling station employee or in any refinery handler of leaded gasoline.

Saw a number of doctors and one diagnosed lead poisoning.

Childhood Lead Poisoning Lead poisoning is epidemic in the ghettos of our cities.

Possible lead poisoning.

HHfis under my care for symptomatic treatment of what appears to he chronic lead poisoning.

Gentleman: We h&we your inquiry of July lbth in connection with ^*etra-Stbyl lead poisoning.

But where shall we fly to escape from east winds and dogdays, from pesti lences that come and pestilences that dp not come, from ships that bring us yellow fever and quarantines that nourish and cultivate it, from cattle diseases that can only be exterminated by exterminating the cattle, from lead pipes for water contrived to kill every body except the animalcules, from fraudulent food and deleterious physic, from drugs that are poisonous and poisons that are adulterated, from infections patients whose pulses must be felt with a pair of tongs and their chest explored with a tarred stethoscope ?

For this reason any complicating diseases' should be noted, such, for example, as alcoholism or syphilis in con-' nection with arteriosclerosis in cases of lead or other metal poison ing.

Chronic lead poisoning has never been seen in association vith exposure to these organic lead compounds.