To All Underground And Surface Workmen. Broken Hill lead miners
factsheet 1893 with Note 20081015 [Factsheet for Broken Hill
Lead Miners, pages 27-28 from the 1892-3 Report of the Board
Appointed to Inquire into the Prevalence & Prevention of Lead
Poisoning at the BROKEN HILL SILVER-LEAD MINES, to the Honorable
the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Ordered by the NSW [New
South Wales, Australia] Legislative Assembly to be Printed 25
May, 1893] [Note added 15 October 2008 by Elizabeth O’Brien,
Manager, Global Lead Advice and Support Service (GLASS). The
LEAD Group is web-publishing this factsheet, despite it having
been written over a century ago, because: Prevention Of Lead
Poisoning. To All Underground And Surface Workmen. Lead gets
into the system in the shape of ore-dust, flue-dust, and smoke
formed in the course of smelting, by way of the stomach, lungs
and skin. The way to avoid leading is to guard the stomach,
lungs and skin as closely as possible; to follow such habits of
life that any lead which doe