Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the dangers attendant on the use of lead and the danger or injury to health arising from dust and other causes in the manufacture of earthenware and china; and in the processes incidental thereto, including the making of lithographic transfers.

  • Great Britain. Home Office.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the dangers attendant on the use of lead and the danger or injury to health arising from dust and other causes in the manufacture of earthenware and china; and in the processes incidental thereto, including the making of lithographic transfers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yi WARRANTS OF APPOINTMENT, I HEREBY APPOINT Eenest F. G. Hatch, Esq. ;* William Burton, Esq., M.A., P.C.S., Clifton Junction, near Manchester; Noel Buxton, Esq. ;f Bernard Moore, Esq., The Grange, Drayton-on-the-Moors, Stoke-on-Trent; Noah Parkes, Esq., Secretary, North Staffordshire Trades and Labour Council; George Reid, Esq., M.D., etc., Medical Officer of Health for Staffordshire; Miss Tuckwell; A. Vernon Harcourt, Esq., F.R.S.; and John Ward, Esq., M.P.; to be a Committee To consider the dangers attendant on the use of lead in the various branches of the manufacture of china and earthenware, and in the processes incidental thereto, including the making of transfers, and to report how far these can be obviated or lessened By improved appliances and methods in the lead processes; or By conducting any of those processes in separate rooms; or By limitation of the use of lead; or By substitution of harmless lead compounds for raw lead; or By substitution of other materials for lead; or By controlling the employment of susceptible persons in lead processes; or By precautions for detection of lead poisoning in the earlier stages, or otherwise, and how far such precautionary measures are reasonably practicable generally and with regard to the several branches of the said manufacture. To consider whether the danger or injury to health arising from dust or other causes in the said manufactures can be further obviated or lessened, and by what means, and how far such means are reasonably practicable generally and with regard to the several branches of the said manufacture. To consider the existing Special Rules for the manufacture and decoration of earthenware and china, and the making of transfers, and to report what amendments, if any, are desirable for the better protection of the workers from lead poisoning and other diseases. * Now Sir Ernest F. G. Hatch, Bart, t Now Member of Parliament.