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laboratory. Request for Radium Study In Industry Gains Recruits The public health relations commit- tee of the New York Academy of Medi- cine; the National Consumers' League and the American Association for Labor Legislation added their voices yesterday to the appeal being made to Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming, of the United States Public Health Service for a nation-wide study of the use of ra- dium in industry. Dr. Louis I. Harris, Commissioner of Health, has written asking for the co- operation of the Public Health Service in a study of New York plants already begun under his direction. During the last three years fifteen deaths in New Jersey and two in Connecticut have bene traced to radium poisoning, it is Baid.