Show 4 SERVICE SERVICE- HEALTH DAILY DAILY I LEAD IS ONE OF WORST INDUSTRIAL POISONS b I Q Editors Editor's Note This Note This is the time first oft an informative and valuable se series series se- se 01 ries of three articles on Industrial Industria Poisons Tomorrow Arsenic and Mercury By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of of the American Medical Association an and ani of Hygeia Hygeia Hygeia Hy- Hy geia the Health Magazine Before Defore tho the Fifth International for for- Industrial Accidents Congress and Occupations ri held lucid recently in Budapest SIr Thomas' Thomas Oliver Olver one of the most widely known known- authorities author aUthor- Ites on industrial diseases disease dIsease considered con con- con con- the influence of or industrial nelsons on time the tho different bodily o orr gans ans uno of ot tux the serious most rious of oC industrial industrial industrial indus indus- lf trial poisons is is' islea lead lea toward which human beings react in iii 11 eat eliC-eat ent ways FACTORS IN LEAD POISON Much depends on the speed with which th the lead is absorbed in the body the age of or th the patient is im important mi- mi t since young oung persons are more likely to be affected by y lead I than older ones women women also sem semI seem to be more seriously affected by I lead than are men In one case cas a healthy girl IS 18 years ears of ot age age died from the effects of ot the thc lead lead on on her brain after afe working In a white lead factory actor for sJ sIx ix w weeks ks The more delicately organized the tissue of the time body boy the less resistance resistance resistance resist resist- ance to poisons poisons- hence alcohol and lead affect the nerve centers centes of or the brain earlier earler than the other tissues of tt the body Among Among the earliest earlest tissues affected b by lead poisoning also are the blood and ad the blood blod forming formin organs In Inmost cases most caes under of indu industry irr the the worker worker receives small doses of ot lead day after da day so that that symptoms of may not arise for tor several years However However How- How ever eyer because of or the effects of 01 lead leadon leadon on ori on the blood the possibility possibility-of of lead poisoning may be determined by e ex examining the time blood long lonS before the theolIous Ious ol obvious obvious- s symptoms sj develop It I is is the general generl opinion that workers rs In the tho lead industry in the course J of ot time develop changes in their ther blood vessels and are likely to have have high blood pressure Their death deth rate Is larger than that of workers workers' ir other occupations I The constant of the lead also affects the kidneys s 's and these changes may be responsible for tor the changes in the blood blod yes yes- ads sels FREQUENT EXAMINATIONS A sI single gle dose of lead seldom m S' S gives e rise but if i sm small l quan- quan titles are repeatedly passed into the time bod body chronic changes develop Af After ter death lead ma may be found in In Inthe the liver cr tile the tie kidneys s 's the brain and the bones bories It is s because of the time d danger nger of small smal dos doses s taken In repeatedly over overlong overlong overlong long long periods of tune that modern industries s in which lead is employed ed arrange for frequent examinations ns of or all al work workers rs so that the dangers may be offset before permanent changes take place in fri the bod body |