Missouri Lead Company provided milk to children and adults, 1934
This short clip shows the dairy owned and run by of the St. Joseph Lead Company, in Missouri providing subsidized milk to the children and adults in its mining district. Until the 1970s, it was common for the lead industry to providing free or low-cost milk to their workers. For over a century, milk was thought to counteract lead poisoning. However, scientific studies have now shown that milk should not be regarded as a prophylactic agent in a workplace setting. Wrote Dr. Robert A, Kehoe in JAMA in 1955 "... The fault is that [it was] often used in lieu of the adequate measures of environmental control that are dictated by considerations of sound industrial hygiene and by decent regard for the safety and welfare of human beings. It is to be expected that industrial management should favor and be unduly impressed by the magic of simple and relatively inexpensive medical prophylactic procedures rather than face the stern and often costly necessities of safe process design and plant engineering." In his article, MISUSE OF EDATHAMIL CALCIUM-DISODIUM FOR PROPHYLAXIS OF LEAD POISONING, Robert A. Kehoe, MD, Cincinnati jama.ama-assn.org ). Missouri has been the nation's major source of lead for approximately 90 years. St. Joseph Lead Co. is one of the major corporate enterprises that came to Missouri to mine lead. It does not matter if a person breathes in, swallows, or absorbs lead particles, the health effects are the same; however, the body absorbs higher levels of lead when ...
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