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showed only such physical condition as is general amongst the
women industrial workers.
In the meantime we got in touch with Dr. Drinker of
the Harvard School of Public Health in order to enlist his
services to make a more thorough investigation and determine
whether there could be anything detrimental to the health in
the handling of our material. He has not as yet completed his
investigation as he is subjecting animals to an injection of
our material and obgerving its effects. His preliminary report
stated that he could not find whe re there could be any chance of
poisoning from the zine itself. The other phase of the material
would be its radio active properties.
There is considerable literature on the matter of the
effects of Radium and a lot of it ia contradictory I am en-
closing a small pamphlet relative to the use of Radium intra-
venously. The quanti ty of Radium handled, of course, must be
considered an important factor. Our operatora when psinting
the largest number of dials per day using the greatest amount
of material will handle about ten grams of luminous sinc. In
this quantity there is .07 mgs. of radio active material but
at no one time is this before the operator at one time, being
distributed to the operator as needed. The average amount of
luminous material used per dial is approximately fifty milli-
grams.
During the past seven years we have had in our employ
as dial painters approximately 375 girls.
There are located at different points throughout the
country other application plan ts where this work is done and
to whom we forward some material used in the work. These plants
are
Ansonia Olock Co. 7th Av . & 12th St.,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
New Haven Clock Co.
New Haven, Conn.
Taterbury Clock Co.
Taterbury, Conn.
E. Ingraham Co.
Bristol, Conn-
Elgin National Vatch Co.
Elgin, Ill.
South Bend Watch Co.
South Bend, Ind.
Luminite Corp.
24 Scott St.
Newark N. J .
Ingersoll Co. Ltd. Kingsway
London, T.C.-2, England
Ingersoll Co. ,Ltd., 9
Montreal, Que. Canada
Frankford Arsenal, Bridesburg,
Philadelphie, Pa.
Air Mail Field,
Maywood, Ill.
Air Intermediate Depot
Fairfield, Ohio
,
Supply Offieer, Bldg. $3, Navy Yard,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
We have one competitor, namely the Radium Dial Corp
who furnish material or have plants located at
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