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June 4, 1925.
Mr. C. H. Granger,
c/o Waterbury Clock Company,
Waterbury,
Conn.
My dear lir. Granger:
I have your letter of June 1 and will give you below as
nearly as I can the information for which you asic.
One of our former operators in the Application Department
at Orange has brought a silt against us for damages to cover injury
which is alleged to have been essued. by employment in our factory.
The case is apparently unique and is coming up in a State court because
the State Compensation Board denied compensation and consequently the
insurance company, the Amoricam Matual of Boston, refuses compensation.
Her condition is a serious jau necrosis and very stubborn.
It developed following the extraction of a tooth or teeth about a year
ago and has not yet, I understand, been brought under control.
Serious jay necrosis is not a very common condition although
minor necrosis is not at all raxe.
I have been told that it has been
browght about by just the use of peroxide of hydrogen after tooth
extraction.
Carlough, the plaintiff, in this action, developed
necrosis soon after leaving our employ. Shortly before that, we heard
of another former operator who had developed a similar condition, but
she had not worked for us for about four years. lie were also told that
two others who had left us about tiro years earlier had a similar complaint.
Radium luminous material, as you undoubtedly lonow, is made of
a specially prepared sinc sulphide which is insoluble except in hot acid.
It contains no phosphorus or other ingredients Jcom to be poisonous.
Animal tests that we have hnd made using Undark in much stronger doses than
could be absorbed by any operators, have not produced jaw necrosis or any
similer condition. Radium takon internally is Imoim to finally locate
in
the bones, particularly the long bonos, and work out of minhals or homans
slowly. We are having additional work done with animals right now, but
I understand there has been no apparent change in guínea pâgs that have
had Undark applied to their guns for several weeks. Later these animols
will be sacrificed and conclusions dramm.
Radium and other radioactive elements are extensively used
internally in Europe and in some neasure in this country in the troatment
of various conditions.
They are administered usually by intravenous
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