Lead poisoning - 1914 Author:Thomas Oliver Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Statistics Of Industrial Lead Poisoning In the Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories, 1912, Dr. T. M. Legge has presented in tabular form the numb... more »er of cases of lead poisoning notified to the Home Office for thirteen years— 1900 to 1912 inclusive. Compulsory notif1cation of cases of industrial lead poisoning has proved of invaluable service, not only in supplying information to the Home Office of the presence of plumbism in a particular factory, but of drawing attention to the possible existence of defects, structural or otherwise, and of the necessity of immediately remedying them. In white lead factories alone the deaths were as follows: Year.Cases.Deaths.1900358619011897190214311903109219041162190590O19061087190771 o19087931909322191034I19114121912230Total1,39333That is, of those suffering from plumbism 2'2 per cent. died. As showing the difference in the mortality rates of lead poisoning due to working in white lead factories and lead poisoning following upon working in other trades in which white lead is used, the following table, taken from the same source, will not be out of place: All Cases Of Industrial Lead Poisoning Notified To Home Office, With Number Of Deaths. Year.Cases.Deaths.19001,058381901863341902629J4190361419190459726KJO559223190663233190757826190864632190955330I9IO50538I9II66937191258744Total8,523394Taking the total cases of lead poisoning, the fatal cases are 4'5 per cent.; but if we deduct the cases and deaths of lead workers, the mortality rate is 5'06, as against the 2'2 per cent. fatalcases in white lead workers. This difference in the mortality rate is not without significance; it suggests that it is among white lead workers that the regulations issued and enforced by the Home Office have been, most productive of good. The ...« less