Daily Nws Lead Paint Changes Urged The City Health Department wants to change itl lcad paint program so it no longer ntiris rcflIT approval to order homeowners to remove the poisonous siihslauce.

There is simply no sense in talking about lead poisoning in non-qeantitative terms in relation to the animal organism or man.

The perimentation went-forward tor seven possibility, of lead -poisoning, so ever years, until, success was., earned.

i N 379.01 Li a 1153I Tho diagnosis of lead poisoning has depended both on the identification of this element in sacples of blood and urine and upon the clinical nanifestatlons observed subsequent to exposure.

^^iciUil LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, INC.

ID0limsusd0 Omjsdj uosfo<] luiOfj poo-] m t- 1972 (HjcjB&cninfl'Bnffctm b 3fTuesday, February 1, W71 City Takes Blood Tests In Lead-Paint Poisoning Hy FLETCIIISR J.

An infrequent cause of convulsions in young children is an encephal opathy due to lead poisoning.

I nay say at th is poin t th at i f gen eral refin er y r egu lation s are enforced and i f the regu lation s which we have made with referen ce to loaded gasolin e storage tanks are follow ed, th ere should be no cases of poison in g.

chronic' lead ',--poison~ing,;-c--a-s-e--'s--?

Is no longer true, for the following reasons: (1) During the past fifteen years there has been no indication of lead poisoning among persons who dispense or use leaded gasoline, or who repair automobiles that use such fuel.

This, in my opinion, Is no longer true, for the following reasons: (1) During the past fifteen years there has been no indication of lead poisoning among persons who dispense or use leaded gasoline, or who repair automobiles that use such fuel.

We are interested in the possibility of chronic poisoning due to absorption.

Early symptoms and signs should be detected by any medical man. who is really interested in the welfare of the workmen, and it is certainly true that if men are removed from hazardous exposure in time, the more serious types of lead poisoning do not develop.

HEALTH & SAFETY a) Environmental Info & Publicity Program $105,000 b) Reprinting Pediatrics Book - cl Proceedings of Pediatric Lead Poisoning Seminar - d) Other Miscellaneous 2,000 el Kettering Abstracts 1.

In connection with the lead exposure referred to above, we have recently obtained experimental data which demonstrate quite conclusively N22658 I I ' the longer m n work daily, and she longer* period of years they work under conditions of exposure, the -sore lead they actually absorb, and the greater la the risk, of loud Intoxication *9 you are well aware, mm have had little or no Istprovessant In the isasic conditions of exposure in the lead plants for a nuaber of years, and I would consider It very unfortunate Indeed If the level of exposure were such that a auisber of cases of poisoning would cone upon us either as the result of slight increases in tine or overall length of duration of exposure. 1th these Ideas la alud, X should like to apply every particle of preauure that s&ghfc have any effectiveness In speeding up the la* provesasnta which we have agreed upon long ago as highly desirable* Very truly yours, K&Xi l s rtoh eri' X* ''ihjhoa^ li 0022736