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Nemorandum in the Case of
Carlowh VS. United States Radivo Corporation
On Thursday, June lith, I interviewed Doctor Martin Ssanalotald,
consulting chemint of the New Jersey Department of Labor, at the plant
of the Turton T. Bush Company of pelamenna, of which he is the
The Doctor told me that he had boen advised a yenr or so auro that
some of the employees of the United States Radium Corporation vore suffering
from a condition of the jaw, which preatly resembled that which has horetofore
bean associated with phosphorus. Some time later he lesrned that there were
additional cases. and at the request of the Department, ha made an annlysis
of the luminous material uged by the Redium Corporation to ascertain whether
or not it contained phosphorus
A very enroful analymis was made, as a result of which he found that
there was absolutely no phosphorus or any phosphate or other substances which,
DO far as he Jnow, could be turned into phosphorus when combined with other
elements or chemicals. He did not analyze the substance for the purpose of
determining what specific incredients were contained in this material, his sole
purpose being to discover, if possible, some form of phosphorus.
He told me that he knows of no other chemical or substance which
causos this condition of the jaw than phosphorus. This does not, howover, take
into account a necrosis of the jaw, as a result of abseesses, pyorrhon and other
infections.
The Doetor asiced mo what the material contained, and I told him that
it was mnde up sololy of chomically pure zine sulphide and an infinitesimel
quantity of radium. He has mnde no stuly of radium and does not tonow what its
effect is. He did instruet the Labor Department to worn the Company that it
should forbid its employees who used the material to put the brushes or anything
else which might have the substance on it into their mouths; also that they
should thoir end Inces frequently; nor ent candy or anything else
which they touched while thoir hands may have hnd any of the substance on them.
Before going to Rurope last sunter. the Doctor was requested by the
Hew Jersey Department of Lebor to find out, if possible, whethor the Europenn
concerns, which used similor luninous materials, had any History of similar
conditions among their employees. The Doctor says that in Germany vory careful
statistics and records are kept at Berlin by the Department of Industrial
Accident Insurance because almost every class of injury, sustained in the course
of employment, is covered by such insurence whether sustained through accident,
occupational disease or othervise. He inquired at this Department and found
that there was no record of any gämiler cases among the German industries, and
that the danger wss un/cnown there.
In Switserland there is no national burenu or department which has
satisfactory records of such industrinl conditions because there is no lam
similar to that of Germay, The Doctor thought that he would be most likoly
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