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Probability and Statistical Inference 9Th Edition Hogg Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
Probability and Statistical Inference 9Th Edition Hogg Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
PLATE IV
White enamel powders free from lead are used entirely by some
firms, but the black and coloured enamels on stove grates contain
lead. A frit analyzed in the Government Laboratory was found to
contain 26·66 per cent. of lead oxide. The fact that all the lead used
is in the form of a silicate, even although the silicate is readily soluble
in dilute acid, tends, we believe, to cause incidence of poisoning to
be less than might have been expected from the amount of dust
often present in the air, and attacks, when they occur, to be less
severe, as a rule, than they would be were raw carbonate of lead
alone used. For the arduous work entailed the men are specially
selected. Despite their exposure to lead dust, the majority continue
to work for many years without marked signs of lead absorption. The
management should provide a suitable room for the men to cool
themselves in the intervals of dusting.
Fig. 14.—The cabinet is shown when dry dusting is being done. The casting is
worked by tongs through a slot in the side of the cabinet (not seen), while the
worker dusts the casting with his arms through the two front holes. He can see
his work through the square pane of glass. (Photographs kindly made by Mr. F.
W. Hunt, Leeds.)
In this small industry in the past the poisoning must have been
considerable. In 1898 nineteen cases were reported. Reference to
the table on p. 47 shows that the number now is greatly reduced.
Those reported are generally cases which have ended fatally from
the sequelæ of lead poisoning contracted many years previously.
Stained-glass painting—a form of vitreous enamelling—very rarely
gives rise to poisoning, as no dust is generated (see vitreous
enamelling for use of aerograph in glass-painting).
Paints and Colours.[33]—Most of the cases have occurred in
the manufacture of white-lead paint, although manufacture of
chromate of lead and of Brunswick greens (barytes with which
Prussian blue and chrome yellows are mixed) account for several.
The following table shows the precise occupation of persons
affected, the number of cases distributed according to precise
occupation, and the proportion of these to the total in 225 cases
which were closely examined:
[A] Fig. 15 shows the arrangement for preventing dust at every point where
it is produced in a factory where dry colours are ground, sifted, and packed
on a large scale. On the upper floor, the chamber is shown in which the
contents of a cask are tipped down a shoot leading in the one case to the
burr stone mill on the left, and in the other into the Blackstone sifters.
Exhaust is arranged at two levels to catch the dust arising from the
displacement of air. After grinding in the closed-in burr stone mill, a hood
and duct is arranged over the point where the material is discharged into
the barrel. Similarly, the casing of the two Blackstone sifters is connected
with the exhaust fan, and also the cover of the barrel into which the ground
material falls. Inside the edge-runner (the door of which is shown open) a
negative pressure is maintained, and one branch duct controls the dust in
the scooping out of the material from the barrel, while another is connected
to the cover of the receptacle into which the ground material is discharged.
Tapering of the ducts, tangential entry of branches, fan-box, and collecting
filters, are all shown. In the factory in question there are four edge-runners,
three burr stone mills, and two Blackstone sifters. Altogether exhaust
ventilation is applied at twenty-five points. (Drawing kindly supplied by the
Sturtevant Engineering Company, Limited, London.)