However, a f te r learn in g th a t he had been a sso ciated with th e s e llin g o f leaded gasoline,pronounced the case one o f lead poisoning.

Kehoe: I apologize for having delayed in acknow ledging receipt of your four papers on lead, which you submitted for the Journal.

It is a most unusual thing to discover, lead poisoning, as the result of the use of badly glazed pottery vessels, in the population of the United States.

I hope, however, that you will understand the general trend of my notations, which are partly the resu)lt of my observations there and partly the result of some experience in ixfcher lead haza r d s Allow me to thank you for the courtesy extended to me oy your seer etary, m d t o ,express my pleasure in hearing from vou gain.

Kehoe: Vfhile reading an article about lead, noisoning in the Jan uary, 1962, issue of the magazine, Today*s Health, I came across several references to the work done at Kettering Laboratory to analytically detect traces of lead in the body.

Washington, New Jersey Dear Miss Hinek: Your note of November 7th to the Health Department of Cincinnati concerning the occurrence of two cases of lead poisoning in association with the use of a certain brand of table-ware was referred to me by the Acting Commissioner, Dr.

Bear Claire, 1 am submitting herein a report and history on the recent lead poisoning case at the Gulf Oil Carp* Terminal# llorfolk, ?

csunrjers.v I KE 0021216 N 24534.01 August 16, 194.5 Memorandum on Report of Illness in Tank Cleaner On Friday, August 15 Mr called from Los Angeles and reported that a Mexican laborer had become ill after cleaning leaded gasoline storage tanks and that the attending physician had made a diagnosis of ''probable lead poisoning."

I told him that- our medical advisers had information that indicated that carburetor flow benches might well be a hasard in respect to 'both gasoline Intoxication and lead poisoning.

D., Director, National Clearinghouse for Poison Control Centers, Accident Prevention Program, Division of Special Health Services, U.

Lead Industries Association.

: I r e f e r p rim arily to th e absence of any, Reference to th e GaEDTA^ treatm ent f o r load poisoning, which has no;?

Kudlich stated that leaded gasoline is not being used for calibrating carburetors but they would like to know about the gasoline intoxication if existing.

First, it has not seemed that this concept of lead poisoning has anything to do with the Dr.

I tend to trust the diagnostic impression of the veterinarians more than I do the analytical data, while ^knowing at the same time that the diagnosis of lead poisoning in various animals isftoo easy at best and is often confused with certain other diseases especially those involving the central nervous system.