Kettering Laboratory College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati Eden Avenue Cincinnati 19, Ohio Dear Doctor Kehoe: The editors of Modem Medicine invite you to prepare an article on chronic lead poisoning.

Kehoe College of Medicine University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio We have received your letter of May 19th indicating a treatment in ease of Tetra-Ethyl Lead poisoning, for which we wish 'to thank you.

Kehoe: : I note from the March 8th issue of the AMERICAN PAINT JOURNAL, you spoke before the Cleveland Paint dnd Varnish Production Club recently on the sub ject of Lead Poisoning.

Kehoe: From our investigations there seems to be no book which deals in a modern fashion with the problems of lead poisoning.

My dear Doctor Drinker: A large manufacturer has recently requested me for information concerning lead poisoning and measures for its prevention.

.\<~" The request was forwarded to Bill Wils'oSjMtffd we attach for your infor mation a copy of his report ^TRgr-several paragraphs regarding a rumor jof a possible lead poisoning case ina^be of^interest to our Medical Department. \^\ v' Let us know if you wish additional information on the matter.

Dear Doctor Kehoe: Referring to my letter to you of May 14th, I enclose copy of Safe Practice Bulletin No. 52 "Lead Poisoning, Part 1", issued by the Department of Labor and Industry of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania.

Kehoe College of Medicine University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio We have received your letter of May 19th indicating a treatment in ease of Tetra-Ethyl Lead poisoning, for which we wish 'to thank you.

Echos: I take pleasure in returning to you, under separate cover, numerous articles on the Queensland chronic lead poisoning controversy which you were kind enough to mail me last May.

B. as chronic lead poisoning.

In Michigan lead poisoning is not a compensable dis ease* However, the Briggs Manufacturing Company is very anxious to aid us in every* way possible and I believe we will be able to cut down the in cidence of trouble.

Bassford and I appreciate very much the trouble you have taken to supply us with detailed information regarding the death from lead poisoning at the Savannah Refinery about which t o wrote to you on December 11th.

Kehoe: I take pleasure in returning to you, under separate cover, numerous articles on the Queensland chronic lead poisoning controversy which you were kind enough to mail me last May.

It is hereby declared that ' (a) inasmuch as scientists have been in creasingly* concerned with various aspects of lead pollution, ' although it is not now exactly provable that atmospheric - lead is harmful, lead has been strongly implicated in many metabolic disorders and the inferential evidence that lead is toxic to humans is overv;helming as. evidenced by the fact that lead oxides can be absorbed directly from the lungs since between 25'g and 5 ^ of lead inhaled Is not exhaled; and (b) medical science, in addition to pointing out the lead toxicity to the adults warns us that children are especially susceptible to the effects of lead and these effects evidence themselves both as general sy.r.puoms of lead poisoning, and as a possible source of mental retardation; and ' {c 5 lead toxicity is implicated in reproductive failure in that exposure of mothers to lead has a damaging effect upon fertility, the course of pregnancy, and the development of the fetus; _ 1 '` it is the intent of the Erie County L gislature to phase out tne use o: Lsoxirn containing lead in order md control the toxic emissions caused by the use of leaded gasoline Local Law Intro.

It is much mere likely that the great variability of the exposure tc lead on the part of children who are poisoned and survive, is responsible primarily for the variability of the lead in their teeth is disclosed by later analyses.