A Study of the Occupational Lead Hazard in Two Electrical Accumulator Industries *Industrial Health in India, series no. VII.
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چکیده
times. Hippocrates in the fourth century B.C., described the illness due to working in the smelting of lead ores. With the progress of industrialization the use of lead is also increasing in some form or another. Commonly, lead is encountered in printing and pigment industries, in the manufacture of insecticides, pottery and storage battery industries and in the mining and milling of lead ore. While the records of progressive countries like U.K. and U.S.A. show that deaths from lead poisoning have practically disappeared due to adoption of preventive measures, little is known about the conditions in lead-using industries in India.
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