1 72 7 ( Euculive Cumsiittee Meeting linxxtes January IS, 1945 LEAD HYGIENE The secretary reported some of his" recent investi gations of articles appearing in the press on lead poison ing, particularly in the field of le'ad poisoning among ,4 children, and stated that grave doubt existed as to its prevalence, a full report having been trade to members, (Lead Hygiene and Safety Bulletin Do. 40, dated December 9, 1944) attached as Exhibit nA.n He also stated that the Association contemplated an i*vestiration of statistics on deaths from lead poisoning rV.ch, from ?.

In 1923 the British returns gave 89 eases of lead poisoning among house painters, with 9 deaths, or appraa*

Eehoe has never seen or had brought to his attention a case of progressive muscular atrophy following undoubted lead poisoning.

He later reaffirmed that he had nothing specific with regard to cases of . lead poisoning but that all lead poisons were cumulative and that it night be ten or fifteen years before anything developed, in which event he would, of course, have the sale of Ethyl banned in Y';aterburyj in the meantime, the purchasers would have been warned through the poison label.

He later reaffirmed that he had nothing specific with regard to cases of lead poisoning but that all lead poisons were cumulative and that it might be ten or fifteen years before anything developed.

It might be entirely possible that the man has contracted lead poisoning from some source which has not been identified.

s o 1 industrial lead poisoning, hewever, is duo to inhaled lead.

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The so called cases of ledd poisoning which have been reported by certain investigators are not cases of lead poisoning at all, but rather are suggestive evidences of the existence of the threat of poisoning.

The onset and course of lead poisoning were no doubt described first by word of mouth.

Man cannot eat food containing even one-tenth the average concentration of lead in soil, that is, about I part per million, for very long without becoming ill with classical lead poisoning.

The term f,lead particles" will be recognized as meaning "lead-containing particles

And so I wind ux. in prescribing a medical means of dealing with the problem of lead poisoning izi early childhood, rather than in stating a definition of lead as a poison.

MINUTES OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY LEAD POISONING Hotel Statler - Washington, D* C, - March 21*, 195U Present were* DR, JOHN H.

MINUTES OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY LEAD POISONING Hotel Statler - Washington, D, C, - March 2h, 195U Present were* DR, JOHN H.