Women in the Lead Industries (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Women in the Lead Industries Lead is by far the most common industrial poison, being responsible, according to Teleky, for no less than 95 percent of all the poisoning due to occupation. Layet - tells us that there are 111 occupations in France in which lead poisoning may occur, and at the time the Commission on Occupational Diseases in Illinois made its report (January, 1911), more than 70 occupations carried on in that State had been found to give rise to lead poisoning. Not only in Europe, but also in this country, industrial lead poisoning is a fairly familiar occurrence, but while in Europe women have been long employed in the lead trades and have suffered from the effects of lead, in America there have been but few women in such occupations, and lead poisoning among them is not at all common. Now, however, women are beginning to enter the occupations in which exposure to lead is inevitable, and it is very important to look carefully into the question of their employment in such occupations, and to determine whether it will be better to safeguard them by requiring employers to use every known means to reduce or eliminate the hazard of lead poisoning or by prohibiting the employment of women entirely in those occupations in which lead poisoning constitutes a considerable hazard. What Is Industrial Lead Poisoning Or Plumbism? It is well to begin with a brief description of what lead does to the human system. When a person is exposed to lead-laden dust, or habitually eats his food with lead-soiled hands, the poison accumulates in his system and usually attacks the digestive tract and the blood first. It seldom happens nowadays that very acute or severe forms of lead poisoning are caused by exposure to lead during work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.