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June 13, 1925.
Dr, Frederick B. Flinn,
Columbia University,
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
437 West 59th St.,
New York City.
Dear Dr. Flinn:
Thanks for your note of the 10th.
Certainly you may
have all the Undark that you wish.
We will send along from the
1840-13
Factory three additional grams.
A letter has just come in from the Waterbury Clock Company
in reply to one in which I suggested that you be allowed to inspect the
operators there. This is the best plant for your purpose, but unfortunately
the Waterbury people, as I feared, would rather not go into anything of
that sort. There is a paragraph in the Waterbury letter that will be of
particular interest to you. which is quoted below:
"Cur records show that we first commenced the application
of Undark in the latter part of 1919. Since that time we have averaged
between fifteen or twenty girls constantly applying this material. At
present we have seventeen operators who have worked a total of something
like 10,000 days at radium painting.
The average for these seventeen
operators is 629 working days, a little over two years employment. One girl
has worked 1437 days, almost five years of continuous painting. Three
girls have worked over a thousand days, or about three years each, while
the others have all worked a year at this work with the exception of one
who has worked but 74 days on painting."
They go on to say that during five or six years of experience
with radium luminous material in which several million watches have been
painted, they have not "by observation or information had even the slightest
hint of any deleterious effects upon employees engaged in this work."
Within a week or ten days, Mr. Lee of this office is to make a
trip through New England. I am asking him to make arrangements if possible
so that you can inspect operators at the New Haven Clock Company and
perhaps one or two of the other mamifacturing plants.
I can arrange any time for you to visit the Luminite Corporation
plant in Newark, There are only a fow operators, but the forelady there
has been employed in handling luminous material for about as long as any
one in this country. Please let me know when you would like to go to
Newark so that I can call up Mr. Fort and make the necessary arrangements.
Yours truly,
ARoeder-HM
President.
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