Home lead-work as a potential source of lead exposure for children.
Health examinations for lead poisoning were made on 62 family members from 15 families of homes carrying on lead work, such as quench-hardening in a molten lead bath and type-printing, as work at home. The most interesting findings concern the occurrence of cases with an unduly high lead absorption among children, but not among adult family members other than home lead-workers. The home environments of the children with an unduly high lead absorption represented contamination with housedust high in lead contents. The ingestion of the contaminated housedust by hand-to-mouth is probably responsible for the excessive lead exposure of the affected children. The results of the present study suggest that contamination of housedust with lead due to home lead-work constitutes a possible hazardous source of lead exposure for children.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D009790:Occupations; D012306:Risk
D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D004391:Dust; D007854:Lead