HOUSE PAINTER M.P.
STORY OF HIS TROUSERS. LEAD-POISONING PERIL. (Sun Special.) LONDON, June 27. Prohibiting 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 that there had been 1500 cases of lead-poisoning in 13 years, and of this number 300 had been fatal. Mr W. R. Raynes (Labour member for Derby), said he was the only working painter in the House, and explained that, owing to lead-poisoning, he had not been able for ten years past to hold his right hand above his head, without intense pain. He could not write in the winter time. The war, which had cost the lives of so many, had saved his hand, and possibly his life, because he 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 drop into them in the morning.
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Southland Times, Issue 19290, 8 July 1924, Page 3
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