Show LACQUER SPRAYING SPRAYING I NOT SO DANGEROUS DETROIT Sept The 25 25 The use usa of cellulose lacquers in finishing au- au bodies Is not only not dangerous to the health of th the Is less 1118 injurious than the old paint and and varnish method according to Dr H II RI John R-John ohn ns- ns medical direct director of The Thi ThiT directs pr 7 T delivered I In In a pap r before the Fraternal con con- congress cress con I gress meeting m at Buffalo recently The nn na international fraternal Insurance society with headquarters In Detroit has con con- condUcted conducted con conducted ducted an exhaustive the thus use ot or lacquer all ns the health of ot trio the operator Their Tbell flod- flod Ines fiod-Ines logs ings bas based based d tudy onI on-a on tudy of or working conditions condition In tn the automobile body plants In fn Detroit end and other cities In ins s methods of or applying lacquer were studied nod many plant ex executives ex- ex executives actor factory physicians and nurses nurse and ond n C l workmen were Inter Inter- Interviewed Interviewed viewed show that when lacquer Is i applied In hi pr properly perly ventilated booths it jt application Is less haz haz- hazardous haz- haz hazardous hazardous than ban the th us use ue of or paint Lead poisoning which Is the chief source s of danger dancer In finish finish- finishIng finish Ing ng bodies with paint and varnish Is entirely l eliminated In the th ua us use of cellulose lacquer which con con- cont conns contains con t ns no lead the tho report states and proper roper ventilation of the tho spray booths together with the use us of at respirators eliminates all occupational occupational occupational hazard Tho The Investigation was und undertaken en cn to determine whether or not all au extra hazardous life lit Insurance rate was necessary In Insuring lacquer operators The result was Willi wa negative nega- nega neta the tive at least as far as ns Immediate effects are concerned though th the process Is still UIl too loo new nev to deter deter- determine determine mine Its effects eff over a long lone of time |