HOUSE PAINTER, M.P.
STORY OF HIS TROUSERS,
LEAD-POISONING PERIL. LONDON, June 27. Prohibting the use of lead paint in the interior of buildings so as to reduce the death-rate amongst painters from lead poisoning, the House of Commons has read a second time a Bill put forward by the MacDonald Government. Mr Rhys Davies (Under Secretary for the Home Office), who is in charge of the measure, said there had been 1500 eases of lead-poisoning in llr! years, and of tins number 300 had been fatal. Mr W. R. Ravnes (Labour member for Derby) said lie was the only working painter in the House, and explained that, owing to lead-poisoning, lie had not been able for ten years past to hold his light band above his head without intense pain. He could not write in the winter time. The war, which had cost the fives of so many, had saved liis hand, and possibly his life, because lie gave up painting. The first pair of trousers he wore as a painter quickly became so saturated with lead paint that they stood upright at his bedside at night, and he was able to climb up and droji into them in the morning.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 July 1924, Page 10
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