To Provide Federal Assistance for Eliminating the Causes of Lead-based Paint Poisoning: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session ... July 22 and 23, 1970, Page 75U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 294 pages |
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applied areas assistance BARRETT bill blood lead levels body burdens brain damage census tract Chairman chil child childhood lead poisoning chips Chisolm City Health clinical Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contain lead cost dangerous detect disease dwelling unit effective encephalopathy enforcement environment environmental evaluation Federal flaking funds Guinee Health Department Health Service homeownership programs Hospital Housing Authority housing units ingestion interior surfaces label landlords lead based lead belt lead content lead control lead hazards lead intoxication lead paint lead program lead-based paint poisoning legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Lin-Fu low-income families mental retardation methods milligrams National NCNW Ordinance paint containing Pediatrics peeling percent permanent brain damage Philadelphia pica plaster poisoning in children potential prevention problem Public Health public housing regulations reported require sanitarian screening Section slum sources of lead South Philadelphia symptoms tion treatment urban Vincent F walls York City
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Page 64 - Byers, RK and Lord, EE : Late Effects of Lead Poisoning on Mental Development.
Page 1 - EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED, WITH RELATED LAWS (60 Stat. 23) [PUBLIC LAW 304— 79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1 . This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946".
Page 250 - Congress declares that fulfillment of our national purpose depends on promoting and assuring the highest level of health attainable for every person, in an environment which contributes positively to healthful individual and family living...
Page 116 - ... not limited to the outermost layer or superficial area of the walls, ceilings, floors, stairs, windows, window sills, window frames, window sashes, doors, door frames, baseboards, and woodwork of a dwelling or dwelling unit; (I) "refuse"--shall mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solids (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, and dead animals; (J) "rubbish"--shall mean nonputrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes) consisting of either: (1) combustible wastes, such as old batteries,...
Page 102 - City, under the powers conferred upon them by this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each day that such violation continues, provided that a written notice of such rule or regulation...
Page 64 - Harriet L. , Lead, Symposium on Environmental Lead Contamination, PHS Publication No. 1440, Sponsored by Public Health Service, US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Dec. 1965. 7. Aub, JC, Farrhall, L., Minof, A., and Reznikoff, P., Lead Poisoning, Medicine Monographs III, William and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1926. 8. Goodman, Louis, and Oilman, Alfred, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 1st Ed., The MacMillan Company, New York, 1940. 9. Hernberg, S., and Nikkanen, J. , Enzyme Inhibition...
Page 115 - Title This Ordinance shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the "Lead Poisoning Ordinance".
Page 41 - About l<ead and Pediatrics," presenting seven steps to the prevention of lead poisoning. The booklet is being distributed to physicians, public health authorities, social workers, city officials, and others who can help achieve prevention and control of the disease in children. The recent upsurge of interest in childhood lead poisoning among Federal and local agencies, citizens...
Page 8 - Because of its roots in dilapidated housing in old urban neighborhoods, it has a high incidence only among children living in city slums. In these areas, accessibility to flaking and peeling lead paint and broken plaster, lack of knowledge among parents that ingestion of lead paint is dangerous and even lethal, frequent inadequate parental supervision of young children, and a high incidence of pica (a perverted appetite for nonfood items such as dirt, paper, paint, and plaster) all set the stage...