Lead in Bones and Drinking Water in Towns with Hard and Soft Water
- 7 April 1973
- Vol. 2 (5857), 21-23
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.5857.21
Abstract
In two comparable series of medicolegal necropsies the lead content of ribs was found to be much higher in three soft water than in three hard water towns in England and Wales. Fourteen out of 96 “overnight” tap water samples from five soft water and five hard water towns in England and Wales and from Glasgow (soft water) had lead concentrations of over 0·1 p.p.m.; values over 0·3 p.p.m. were found only in Glasgow. The possible relevance of the findings to the association of cardiovascular disease and soft drinking water is discussed.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- CLINICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL INDICATORS OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AMONG MEN LIVING IN HARD AND SOFT WATER AREASThe Lancet, 1973
- Environmental Lead Pollution in an Urban Soft-water AreaBMJ, 1972
- Hazards from the kitchen tap.1971
- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND THE MINERAL CONTENT OF DRINKING WATERBritish Medical Bulletin, 1971
- LEAD AND δ-AMINOLÆVULINIC ACID DEHYDRATASE LEVELS IN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN AND IN LEAD-POISONED SUCKLING RATSThe Lancet, 1970
- Lead absorption and the health of a community.1966
- The biological trace elements or peripatetics through the Periodic TableJournal of Chronic Diseases, 1965
- A Follow-up Study of Lead WorkersOccupational and Environmental Medicine, 1963
- [Electrocardiographic studies in cases of chronic occupational lead poisoning].1961
- THE LEAD CONTENT OF BONE IN CHRONIC BRIGHT'S DISEASEAustralasian Annals of Medicine, 1957