The examination of blood films in relation to the prevention of plumbism among shipbreakers

Abstract

The control of the lead risk among shipbreakers presents problems of great practical difficulty. Measures for the prevention of plumbism applied successfully in other industries are here impracticable, with the result that the breaking-up of a heavily leaded ship is almost invariably responsible for a considerable crop of gross cases of lead poisoning and a large mass of ill-health stopping just short of incapacity for work.