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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Lead exposure at a school for children with developmental disabilities

Jason Bawden-Smith, Jeremy McAnulty and Mark Bek

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 6(11) 124 - 127
Published: 1995

Abstract

In July 1994 a paediatrician reported that an autistic child aged six years had been admitted to hospital for chelation therapy with a blood lead level of 386 micromoles per litre. The child had ingested some granular material containing 23 per cent lead.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB95038

© NSW Department of Health 1995

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