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Guide to the Allegheny County, Pa. Health Department Lead Survey Records, 1971-1975 AIS.1990.14

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Title
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Health Department lead survey records, 1971-1975, Lead survey records, 1971-1975, Records of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Health Department lead survey, 1971-1975
Subject
Bonk, Janet, Brunwasser, Albert H, Juselius, Roger, Kambic, Robert, Lupino, Penn, Moriarty, Richard, Allegheny County (Pa.). Health Department., Pennsylvania. Bureau of Community Environmental Control., Pittsburgh (Pa.). Code Enforcement Advisory Committee., Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission., United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare., United States. National Bureau of Standards., Lead--Toxicology--Research--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County, Lead abatement--Research--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County, Lead poisoning--Research--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County
Description
The records of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Health Department Lead Survey date from 1971 to 1975. This collection falls into three main series: Administrative records, Blood Lead data, and Environmental Lead Abatement data. The Administrative series affords an overview of the entire project through grant applications, correspondence, reports and publications, and notes on environmental lead testing equipment. Blood lead data makes up most of the collection, in amounts varying by year collected, rising to a 1974 peak. The Blood Lead series also includes permission slips, patient records (case files, index cards), and summaries of data. The Environmental Lead Abatement Data includes documentation on individual residences and summaries of this data grouped by census tract, street, and zip code. All three series make reference to the "N.B.S." This abbreviation stands for the National Bureau of Standards, whose personnel advised the administrators of local blood lead surveys during this period., Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Health Department Lead Survey records, 1971-1975, AIS.1990.14, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Gift of Allegheny County Health Department, October 9, 1991., The Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Health Department Lead Survey spans the years 1971 to 1975. It represents an early stage in the ongoing nationwide effort to improve children's well being by eradicating unhealthful amounts of lead in their surroundings and bodies. Although it later became part of the national blood lead survey, Allegheny County's Lead Survey began as a pilot study of a local blighted neighborhood. Tests of the neighborhoods' children showed that they had lower levels of lead exposure than their peers in other cities. Health Department officials sought to determine if the relatively low incidence of lead poisoning occurred because health care providers were not looking for it or because the Allegheny County children's lives were somehow different from those of their counterparts in other cities. As explained in the Allegheny County Health Department's March 1, 1972 Lead Poisoning Control Program book (pages 3-4), "These questions concern us, and provide the basis for our interest in establishment of a lead poisoning control project in Allegheny County..." to gain answers and "provide ...effective lead poisoning detection." The Allegheny County Lead Survey project was performed under the leadership of Dr. Albert H. Brunwasser, with Drs. Penn Lupovic, Roger Juselius, and Richard Moriarty, assisted by Robert Kambic, Janet Bonk, nurses, laboratory personnel, and teams of paraprofessional workers who were recruited from local communities and trained in survey methods. The Health Department continued to assess and document lead levels in children's blood and in their homes through 1975, when funding was discontinued. Although the Braddock, Hill District, Homestead, Homewood-Brushton, North Braddock, North Side-Manchester, Rankin, Turtle Creek Valley, and Wilkinsburg neighborhoods were surveyed, some areas of the County had not been studied at the program's conclusion, and the reason for the lower-than-expected blood lead levels does not appear to have been found., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais199014
Contributor
Allegheny County (Pa.) Health Department., University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1971-1975
Type
Collection, Correspondence., Questionnaires., Surveys (Documents).
Identifier
pitt:US-PPiU-ais199014
Language
eng
Relation
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais199014, pdcp_noharvest
Coverage
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Allegheny County (Pa.), Braddock (Pa.), Clairton (Pa.), East Pittsburgh (Pa.), Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Homestead (Pa.), Homewood (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Manchester (Pittsburgh, Pa.), McKeesport (Pa.), North Braddock (Pa.), North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Pitcairn (Pa.), Turtle Creek (Pa.), Wilkinsburg (Pa.)
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