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HISTORY
For many centuries, starting as early as 4000 B.C., lead has been used for a variety of purposes.
Ancient Romans used lead for glazing pottery, piping, cooking utensils, and sweetening of wine.
Lead toxicities were well documented in Egyptian papyrus rolls, describing its use for homicidal purposes. Over the centuries, lead poisoning was noted by different terms such as " the miner's disease", " lead blindness", " lead colic", " lead gout", and " plumbism." It was a common cause of morbidity and mortality among shipbuilders, wine drinkers, and potters. The toxic clinical effects of lead poisoning in children were linked to lead paint used in the early 20th century. More than half the homes built in the United States before 1950 contained lead paint. Lead-based paint were banned in the United States in 1977, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency phased out lead from gasoline between 1975 and 1986.
The annual costs of lead-related health care in the United States are estimated to be $ 43.5 billion. As of 2000, 38 million homes I the US were considered significant lead hazards. The age of the house is more predictive of lead hazard than its location. Children living in high-risk housing (built before 1950) are almost 6 times more likely to have lead poisoning than in housing built after that time
[http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/Lead Poisoning; Pediatrics In Review, Vol. 31, No. 10 ( October 1, 2010). pp. 399-406].
BASICS & DEVELOPMENTS
Childhood lead-paint poisoning is virtually an epidemic in Baltimore. Statistics reveal that roughly 54 percent of poor Black children, and maybe about 12 percent of affluent, middle-class White children living in East Coast urban areas such as Baltimore, annually ingest enough lead to cause an
appreciable drop in IQ. THIS, BY ITSELF, DOES NOT MEAN HOWEVER THAT THE LANDLORD IS ALWAYS AT FAULT.
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