Lead poisoning : from the industrial, medical, and social points of view, lectures delivered at the Royal Institute of Public Health / by Sir Thomas Oliver.

  • Oliver, Thomas, Sir, 1853-1942.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lead poisoning : from the industrial, medical, and social points of view, lectures delivered at the Royal Institute of Public Health / by Sir Thomas Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and ready for use. Austria prohibits the use of white lead for the interior of houses. No uniform international attitude has as yet been assumed in regard to this important question. It is one to which the International Association of Labour Legislation is giving attention. There is nothing to support the statement which is current in some quarters, that British house-painters are prejudiced in favour of lead paints. Knowing the danger incidental to their use, they have nothing to gain by using them to the exclusion of others. Zinc oxide and litho- pone, the latter a compound of zinc sulphide and barium sulphate, have been recommended as substitutes for lead carbonate. As pigments these undoubtedly possess valuable properties. The high degree of opacity owned by white lead, the readiness with which it obliterates uneven sur- faces and produces a dense white effect with very little material, render it difficult for it to be re- placed by substitutes. For external decoration lead carbonate stands exposure to the weather well. There is less division of opinion in regard to zinc white giving equally as good results as lead carbonate in internal work. Noel Heaton maintains that zinc white has neither the fineness nor the density of white lead, nor is