Please feel free to mark it'up "with any comments you care to make. ^ a m enclosing the entire section on Occupational Diseases but since you probably will not, w a n t to^ wade through-all. of t h i s , you yn.ll note that the, sections on Lead Poisoning run from page li+P to 152, and from 1P7 ^o 160* I would particularly like your opinion as to whether or not lead might be stored in the bones in sufficient quantity before pregnancy to give rise to an acute attack of lead poisoning later during pregnancy.

In view of your comments on the report "Occupational Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoning", I am requesting you to send me an additional fifty (pO) copies of it, and to bill me for them.

I have looked over the report of your Mr* Lane relating to the Illness of one of your service station m e n , 4 H H H ^ ^ It seems quite clear to me that there is very i likelihood that a claim of lead poisoning will be made in this case.

N, Gotham at San Antonio, Texas, concern ing a presumed case of tetraethyl lead poisoning in "an employe of the government who handles lead tetra ethyl in on of the ware houses at Duncan Field".

Thompson would be most grateful and very much interested in our contacting her and providing some of the background activities in childhood lead poisoning.

-L am enclosing the entire section on Occupational Diseases but since you probably will not, want, to> wade through-all. of this ,, you will, note that the, sections on Lead Poisoning run from page li+b to 152, and from 1R7 ^o 160* I would particularly like your opinion as to whether or not lead might be stored in the bones in sufficient quantity before pregnancy to give rise to an acute attack of lead poisoning later during pregnancy.

From what you have told me about the case I think it is fair to conclude that the man does not haxfe lead poisoning.

Agency Executive or Citizens Concerned about Lead Poisoning in Cinoinnatii BOARD MEMBERS: WILLIAM L BLUM AltllOINT AMBROSE H.

Knowing that you have given considerable attention to the matter of lead poisoning of human--beings, I take the liberty of requestinginformation on the following point

The quantity of tetraethyl lead which can be Ingested in handling commercial gasoline is entirely negligible, and is of no consequence so far as the danger of lead poisoning is concerned.

In the process of painting the bodies these men are employed to sand-paper the third coat, I believe, and apparently take no precautions against lead poisoning.

W have been informed that you have a ease of suspected lead poisoning in your patient Mr* O M B B B of Framingham Massachusetts, and are interested in obtaining samples of Ethyl Fluid* Dr* Kehos who is director of this laboratory and medical consultant for the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, la very much interested in getting all the information available on oases of this type* As you know there have not yet been found any eases of lead poisoning as a consequence of the absorption of lead from Ethyl Gasoline even in d r o w s e tanees where workmen have had dally skin and vapor contact with leaded gasoline* Cases of dermatitis have appeared from time to time due to sensitisation to gasoline and gasoline products* These we have felt have been due in large part to the cracking of gasoline whloh gives rise to a number of unsaturated hydrocarbons many of which are extremely reactive as compared to straight run or natural gasoline.

First, in the reverse sequence of the dates of your letters, let me thank you for the clipping on the Panama City cases of lead poisoning.

We are undertaking to study this systematically, in connection with a number of conditions, including lead poisoning, and I trust that within a reasonable period of time, we shall have some sensible notion as to where It fits Into the picture, and what it means in relation to the mechanism of the blood disorder that characterizes lead poisoning* You will be surprised, perhaps, that I am quite uncertain about these problems, and have very little to say, that might be valued as useful or in any way authoritative.

Including lead poisoning, and X trust that within a reasonable period of time, ve shall have some sensible notion as to where it fits into the picture, and what it means in relation to the mechanism of the blood disorder that characterises lead poisoning.