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weeks in 1920.
The decedent was employed to pain the diels of inexpensive
watches with a luminous paint containing small quantities of the
element radium in the form of a sulphate. while the decedent was
in the employ of the defendant no precautions were taken to pre-
vent dial painters from being exposed to the small quantity of
radium sulphate, an insoluble salt, and the radium emanation present
in the air of their workrooms.
The decedent was one of eighty ai rls who worked for rive 8 nd
one-half days por week in a large factory room ventilated by a
skylight and by windows around the room.
The windows were regu-
lated by any of the girls who saw fit to do ao. They worked at
four rows of tables extending pactically the length of the room.
gach girl worked a few feet away from the girl next to her and a
few feet away from the girl at the opposite side of the table.
Each girl pro eured a tray containing twenty-four watch dials and
the material to be used to pain the numerals upon them 80 that
they would a ppear luminous. The material was a powder, of about
the consistency of cosmetic powder, and consisted of phosphorescent
zine sulphide mixed with radium sulphate. This compound was con-
tained in a small vial about an inch and one half long e nd ebout
the size of en ordinary lead pencil in diameter. The powder was
poured from the vial into e small porcelain crucible, about the
size of a thimble. A quantity of gun arabic, as an adhesive, and
a thinner or water were then added and this was stirred with a small
glass rod until e paint-like substance resulted. In the course of
a working week each girl painted the dials contained on twonty-two
to forty-four such trays, depending upon the speed wi th which ahe
worked, and used a vial of powder for each tray. when the paint-like
substance was produced a girl would employ it in painting the figures
on a wetch diel. There were fourteen numerals, the figure six being
omitted. In the painting esch girl used a very rine brush of camel's
hair containing about thirty hairs. In order to obtain the fine lines
which the work required, a girl would place the bristles in her mouth,
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