PEDIATRICS Vol. 56 No. 4 October 1975, pp. 621-622
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Question Regarding Need for Treatment

Arthur W. Kaemmer M.D.1 and Byron R. Johnson M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics Group Health Medical Center 355 Sherman Street Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102

Dr. Greensher and his colleagues are to be congratulated for bringing to the readers' attention a most unusual source of lead poisoning. Inasmuch as many localities are initiating city-wide lead screening programs, it is obvious that pediatricians in this country will be seeing many children with abnormally elevated blood lead levels, and in many cases diligent efforts such as this will have to be undertaken to determine the exact source of the environmental lead. biggest problems with mass screening programs for lead poisoning are well outlined by Moriarty's article.2