Lead poisoning in the smelting and refining of lead.

  • Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lead poisoning in the smelting and refining of lead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lead poisoning in the smelting and retining of lead—Concluded. Lead poisoning in the smelting industry in the United States 58-i Rl Historical 58-i Number and kind of cases found . - 01-f Period of exposure and attack rate 64-i Relative danger of different kinds of av(irk 66,. 67 Influence of tlie seasons - i 68 Method of collecting cases 68h 71 Medical supervision 71-j 73 Sickness and accident insurance 73, 7^' Oharactei oi employees : 75-78i^' Housing 78, 7^1 Oompulsory registration of occupational plumbism 79-8]L Ai'PENDix I.—The solubility of lead sulphide ores and of lead sulphide in human gastric juice 82-S ArrKNDix II.—Regulations for the lead and copper industries, drafted by Lil- lian Erskine, special investigator for the New Jersey Depart- ment of Labor, approved by Ernst F. Eurich, consulting metallurgical expert for the State, and issued in the form of a circular letter to these trades by Lewis T. Bryant, commis- fijoner of labor 85-87 Ai I ENDix III.—German regulations for lead-smelting works (June 16, 1905).. 88-90 Apfe.vdix IV.—French regulations relating to precautions against industrial lead poisoning 91-94 Appendix V.—Provisions for medical^inspection and care in English, German, and French smelt/rs 96-97 LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS. Facing page— Plate 1.—Sampling mill 19 Plate 2.—Ore hearth or Scotch hearth , 23 Plate 3.—Ore hearth building in partial operation. 24 Plate 4.—Huntington-Heberlein pot 29 Plate 5.—Belt of empty grates of a Dwight-Lloyd machine 32 Plate 6.—Feed floor 34 Plate 7.—Blast furnace during slag tapping 37 Plate 8.—Tapping floor of a blast furnace in the American Smelting & Refin- ing Co. 's plant at Murray, Utah - 38 Plate 9.—Matte tapping in the American Smelting & Refining Co.'s plant at Murray, Utah 38 Plate 10.—Tapping antimonial slag from a furnace 38 Plate ] 1.—Softening furnace in a refinery, with mechanical charging 42 Plate 12.—Residue furnace or copper matting furnace 44 Plate 13.—Fabre du Faur zinc distillation furnace 44 Plate 14.—Pouring the rich lead from a retort into a cupelling furnace 45 Plate 15.—P^lue and bag house eystem 46