Letters Received to A. Roeder, December 15, 1925

COPY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS 437 West 59th Street, New York December 15, 1925. Mr. A. Roeder, United States Radium Corporation, 30 Church Street, New York City, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roeder; I received your letter this morning expressing Mr. Stryker's feeling about Miss Catherine Schaub. I have been very guarded in my remarks with the girls for I felt that they may be trying to find out our feelings for the information of as you expressed it "our excited friends. I am enclosing a letter I have received from Dr. F. M. Legge in response to one of mine asking him if he thought that the blood picture as drawn by Dr. Rosher could be considered a normal picture for the English working girl as it didnot correspond to our own findings in this country. If I had gotten the same picture on the girls that I had examined here in America I should have been a little worried. His reply speaks for itself as to jaw necrosis. I cannot but feel that there is something somewhere that we have not gotten to the bottom of and that was why I felt that if the Insurance Company could m ke a reasonable settlement it might be the better way out All of my findings are negative, but it is very hard to explain the cases in your factory without having the medical history of each girl and of course we cannot get that. But no one can possibly say that any one knew about such an industrial hazard and if it were not for the cases referred to, any one would be forced to say that there was no hazard from my work. That of course will be my testimony and I shall refuse to discuss any cases that I have not examined because it will be well not to be drawn into an argument about a matter that no one knows anything about. Cordially, (Signed) Frederick B. Flinn.