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THE report referred to below is the outcome of the deliberations of a committee appointed by Lord Gladstone in May, 1908, to consider a question which has engaged the attention of the Home Office and Parliament for several years past, and has already been the subject of inquiry by several departmental committees. It is a matter of common knowledge that persons engaged in the making of earthenware and china are subjected to considerable risk to health from two main cases—dust and lead. The dust arises from the finely-divided silicious matter, mainly ground flint, employed in various stages and processes of ceramic manufacture; this when breathed gives rise to distressing bronchial and lung troubles, and in an aggravated form leads to the malady known as “potter's rot.”
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Report of the Department 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. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Vol. i. Report. Pp. vii + 150. (London: H.M.S.O., 1910.) Price 1s. 5d.
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The Lead Glaze Question 1 . Nature 85, 273–274 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085273a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/085273a0