Proceedings of a conference to determine whether or not there is a public health question in the manufacture, distribution, or use of tetraethyl lead gasoline / Prepared by direction of the surgeon general.

  • United States. Public Health Service.
Date:
1925
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Credit: Proceedings of a conference to determine whether or not there is a public health question in the manufacture, distribution, or use of tetraethyl lead gasoline / Prepared by direction of the surgeon general. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS A PUBLIC HEALTH QUES- TION IN THE MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION, OR USE OF TETRAETHYL LEAD GASOLINE The meeting was called to order at 10 a. m., May 20, 1925, at the Bureau of the United States Public Health Service (Butler Build- ing, Third and B Streets SE.), Washington, D. C., by Surg. Gen. H. S. Cumming, presiding. The CuHatrman. I will ask the meeting to come to order. I wish to introduce to you Assistant Secretary at the Aveasey McKenzie. Moss, who will open the conference. Mr. Moss. Ladies and gentlemen, I think I was born with too much sense to endeavor to discuss the questions which will be before you for determination, or even to endeavor to state the issues. I do not know that I would be able even to pronounce some of the words contained in the title. I am merely here to extend, on behalf of the secretary, a welcome to you and to express the confident belief that around this council table you gentlemen will be able to bring to a fair settlement and solution the problems which have brought you together. That is my mission and it has been performed. ‘The CuarrMan. Ladies and gentlemen, I take pleasure in intro- ducing to you Secretary Work, former president of the: American Medical Association. Secretary Worx. Surg. Gen. Cumming and gentlemen of the conference, the applause that followed Secretary Moss’s address was partly due, perhaps, to the brevity of it, so I will take notice and be equally brief. This conference has very much to consider from different angles. I became interested in it first from the viewpoint of public health. If this new agent, which it is proposed shall go into general use in every car, is prejudicial to health we should know it and the public should know it. JI am interested in it also because of my present position in association with the Bureau of Mines, which is a scientific bureau, as you know. The Bureau of Mines has been making a careful experimental study in this line for several months. A few months ago they put out a state- ment which was accepted as final. It was not intended to be final. It was really a progress report. Since that time the bureau has been pursuing these studies in the same general direction, and they