Event
Surgeon General’s conference on tetraethyl lead, 1925
Conference called by the Surgeon General in Washington to ask whether tetraethyl lead gasoline was a public health question.
- Dates
- 20 May 1925
- Leaded20 scenes
- Why did the Surgeon General’s conference on tetraethyl lead, 1925 happen?2 links, 1 account
- How are the Surgeon General’s conference on tetraethyl lead, 1925 and … connected?
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involved
- U.S. Public Health Service called the conference Primary record 1
- Thomas Midgley Jr. for Ethyl: said the danger lay in carelessness, not the fluid Primary record 2
- Charles F. Kettering for Ethyl: told the history of the additive Primary record 2
- Robert A. Kehoe reported on the men at the Dayton plant Primary record 2
- Alice Hamilton warned of a slow, widespread danger Primary record 2
- Frank A. Howard for Ethyl: called the additive a “gift of God” for saving petroleum Primary record 2
caused
- Committee of seven on tetraethyl lead gasoline, 1925-1926 Primary record 1
led to
- Committee of seven on tetraethyl lead gasoline, 1925-1926 According to U.S. Public Health Service Primary record 1
- Public Health Bulletin No. 158 Primary record 1
followed from
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Poisonings at the Bayway tetraethyl lead works, 1924
According to U.S. Public Health Service
Primary record
1
The Public Health Service’s own introduction ties the conference to public fears sharpened by these poisonings.
- Poisonings at du Pont’s tetraethyl lead plant at Deepwater, 1923-1924 According to U.S. Public Health Service Primary record 1
located in
- Washington, D.C. Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 20 May 1925 Surgeon General’s conference on tetraethyl lead, 1925
Proof 2 sources
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The Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline in Its Relation to Public Health (Public Health Bulletin No. 163), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1926.
Primary record
On May 20, 1925, a conference called by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service met to consider the possible health hazards
It is the sense of this conference that the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service appoint a committee of seven recognised authorities in clinical medicine, physiology, and industrial hygiene
The proceedings of this conference have been published as Public Health Bulletin No. 158.
these fears were intensified when fatal poisoning occurred in the manufacture and mixing of the concentrated tetraethyl lead itself in Deepwater, N. J., Dayton, Ohio, and Bayway, N. J.
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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 (Public Health Bulletin No. 158), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1925.
Primary record
Tetraethyl lead is not so much a dangerous poison as it is a treacherous one.
almost as a last resort we started to study the properties of lead.
I do not regard the data which we have presented on men examined up to the present as conclusive in any way.
lead is a slow and cumulative poison and that it does not usually produce striking symptoms that are easily recognized.
we have this apparent gift of God
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