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INGERSOLL WATCH COMPANY. LTD.
Ingersoll House, Kingsway, London, W. C. 2 (England)
ESD/GEM
To Waterbury Clock Co.
July 2nd 1925
Waterbury, Conn.
No. 893
Gentlement
Dear Mr. Chase:-
I have your letter of June 22nd, with further comments
in your penned letter of the same date, and newspaper clippings
regarding the scare which the "New York world" (and perhaps other papers)
have started in regard to a possible danger to the health of those
applying Luminous Material to Watch and Clock dials, etc.
With my knowledge and experience of the subject, the first
impression I get from reading these newspaper clippings is that there
was a temporary shortage of murders or other news of a sentational
character and so some newspaper Reporter with a lively imagination has
started something.
There is no doubt but that the handling of pure Radium
or pure Radium Bromide needs to be done with care and according to methods
well known to those who make a practice of handling such material whether
in the Factories producing it or in Hospitals or elsewhere, but the amount
of Radium Bromide in the material as it comes to us for luminising our
Watch and Clock Pials is so infinitesimal that to me it is the height of
absurdity to suggest that the handling of this material could in any way
be detrimental to anybody's health.
We started to luminise Watch dials a little more than
11 years ago.
We still have one girl who was with us and employed in
that Department when we first began to luminise dials, viz;- March 1914.
Another of our Operators has been employed contimuously
in that Department for ten years; two others for nine years each;
two for eight years, and several others for varying periods between
five and eight years.
The luminous element in the very first material we used
was Radium Bromide. After the war started, we had difficulty in
getting supplies and had to make use of a considerable amount of material,
of which the luminous element was mesathorium or radiothorium, but as
soon as we could get the material we preferred we got back to that of
which the luminous basis was Radium bromide. We began using
the material of the United States Corporation some six or seven years
ago.
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