Park: Please accept ray thanks for the reprint describing the roentgenologic studies which you and your associates have made in relation to lead poisoning.

The statement that the doctor advised "a series of shots" for the treatment of the disease seems rather, incompatible .with the diagnosis of lead poisoning*' ' Therefore I should advise you to ask the national Refining Company to make further investigation of the facts on their own initiative**: obtaining such infor mation from the physicians as will enable thorn to pass along to us seesthing hotter than pur hearsay infor mation* With such information we shall then be able to dooide whether there is any point in our looking into the matter further** Very truly yours* KAKjis ' 00 Mr* Lewis ji 002177!

I would welcome a bit more concern about the standards to be set and actually employed, in the United States, for we have much too much lead poisoning in American industry in a number of our States.

After several weeks, possibly months, of this employment he developed lead poisoning with the characteristic par alysis of wrists and ankles.

During the fiscal year, April 1, 1949 - Sferch 31, 1950, our Laboratory Section performed the following number of chemical analyses for lead determinationj Blood........ 110 Urine * 83 These samples were submitted from 118 persons* Prom some a sample or samples of blood only were submitted* Prom ethers, a sample or samples of .urine only were submitted* From some, samples of both urine and blood were submitted*< Each case from whom a sample was submitted was "followed up" by interview with physicians, medical record librarians, or chiefs of clinics, and in 55 cases a diagnosis of lead poisoning was clinically justified.

Kehoei It certainly was nice to hear from you by way of your letter of April 25, 1961, and to learn of your willingness to undertake the revision of the APHA report, "Occupational Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoning."

Kehoe Manfred Bowdttch, Director Health and Safety Lead Industries Assoc. 420 Lexington Avenue New York 17* New York My dear Manfreds I have Just received your letter of March 29th rela tive to your odd visitor who alleged to have contracted lead poisoning while working at a large airoraft faetory near San Francloco.

Kehoe Manfred Bowditch, Director Health and Safety Lead Industries Assoc. ^20 Lexington Avenue New York 17* New York My dear Manfredi I have just received your letter of March 29th rela tive to your odd visitor who alleged to have contracted lead poisoning while working at a large aircraft factory near San Francisco.

Kehoe Manfred Bowdltch, Director Health and Safety Lead Industries Assoc, if20 Lexington Avenue New York 17 Mew York My dear Manfreds I have Just received your letter of March 29th rela tive to your odd visitor who alleged to have contracted lead poisoning while working at a large airoraft faotory near San Francisco.

Dear Dr Hehoe: At last I have received, and send you at once, a reprint of my article on Roman CUltuse and Dysgenic Lead Poison ing, from Mankind Quarterly in Edinburgh.

This gentleman stated that a ifriend of his, a doctor, has been giving treatment to one of his patients who has been engaged in the cleaning of petroleum storage tanks including those which have previously contained leaded gasoline.

Gehrmann: In the last three years twenty-two Baltimore children have died of lead poisoning.

I do not feel that we are in a position to say very much about the possible dangers of Versene therapy in lead poisoning from a very limited experience.

MoIntire Thanks for your reprint on ''Diagnosis and Treatment of Lead Poisoning".

So far as lead absorption is concerned, there need be fear of this since lead is absorbed better by the intact skin than by an injured skin.