Without expressing any special skepticism on my part as to your diagnostic procedure, let me merely point out that lead poisoning in house painters is a rare occurrence, largely because these men are not engaged regularly or even frequently in work that gives rise to significant exposure to lead.

The following proposed section on this subject will be presented to the Board of Health for adoption by it as its coming meeting in September: Section of the Sanitary Code: "No person shall have, keep or offer for sale in the City of New York any liquid coating material or paint which contains lead compounds of which the lead content (calculated as Pb) is in excess of lyi of the total weight of the contained solids including pigments and dryer tinless it bears the following statement clearly and conspicu ously placed on the container or label "Yiarning: This paint contains lead - unsafe - poisonous - and should not be used to paint childrens toys or furniture or interior surfaces in dwelling units which might be chewed by children.11 Please note that there is no conflict between this proposed labeling requirement and the American Standards Association Z66.1 Subcommittee proposal, since the recommendation of this group relates to paints, which -conform to the proposed standard.

Dear Professor Kehoe, I wrote to you the other day concerning BHT, but omitted to mention another topic that may be of interest to you, namely the work on lead poisoning published by Moncrieff and Clayton of the Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital in London.

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What I do know Is that this lady, who lias no knowledge or experience that would qualify her, kmnoowwss all about lead poisoning and Is prepared to arrive at diagnoses regardless 01 lOW she may differ with others, Including physicians.

The laboratory staff of the School of Public Health of the University of Sydney hare nowbecome most interested in the problem of estimating the lead concentration in the blood of children suspected of --or definitely known to hare --lead poisoning, ' Ve here attempted to improvise satisfactory equipment for the collecting of blood aamplesf but so far hare not been very, successful.

., applied in liquid form, that are deemed suitable from o health standpoint to be used to paint children's toys or furniture or interior surfaces so that the danger of poisoning will be minimized if, by chance, some of the dry coating should be ingested by a child. 2.

My investigations at Jacksonville have established beyond any reasonable doubt that the lead which we found in the samples analyzed was actually present in theso tissues prior to death, I feel that there is no doubt that this manrs death was due to a serious exposure to tetraethyl lead.

On October 5, 1945 lead and urine samples were taken and sent to your laboratory and papers filed with the Industrial Commission aa a case of lead poisoning.

., applied in liquid form, that are deemed suitable from o health standpoint to be used to paint children's toys or furniture or interior surfaces so that the danger of poisoning will be minimized if, by chance, some of the dry coating should be ingested by a child. 2.

I take this opportunity to ask you to be good enough to send me a copy of a publication which you sent to Doctor Pavlovsky entitled; "Occupational Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoning" - American Health Associa tion - 1943,

Of course it is impossible for me to argue this proposition satisfactorily unless I have some actual data, as to whether or not there have been any recent cases of lead poisoning from this work. .Thanking you for ybur courtesy in this1?

You probably will not be surprised to learn that day before yesterday I was called on the phone by another of our local physicians who informed me that; he had a case which he suspected might be lead poisoning.

Atwater's letter to you of August 20th, of which, as you know, he kindly sent me a copy* Since I last communicated with you and him on the subject of using Occupational Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoning* in the Monograph on Lead which we are preparing for the A.C.S., the scene has changed somewhat and I " now think that we will turn the lead hygiene job over to Schrenk and hfS as-j sociates at the Foundation.

Gentlemen; Amwondering whether or not you could suggest a cure for lead poisoning which is causing considerable concern to a station operator of our distributor at Austin.