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BALTIMORE PLUMBISM (LEAD POISONING) : WHERE ARE WE NOW ?
Plumbism in Baltimore has been reduced substantially over the last 40 years or so.
During that time, lead-based paint has been banned from the residential housing market (since 1978), and it has been largely relegated to outdoor use as early as the 1950s; improvements have been made in drinking water, food, plumbing, playgrounds, toys, jewelry, home remedies, etc.; and the elimination of lead-based gasoline --- causing a dramatic reduction in children's blood lead levels.
Over the last 20 or so years the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has lowered its safe-exposure measure from 25 micrograms (mcg) per deciliter to 10 mcg. Even under this new lower level, however, no more than 1.6 % of young children fall above the CDC threshold in Baltimore --- an encouraging 98 % reduction fro the late 1970s.
The good news is that plumbism(lead poisoning) is steadily decreasing in Baltimore.
