Letters Received to A. Roeder, June 17, 1925

REOFIVED JUN 18 1925 Cohmbia Unimersitp College of and Sirgeons EPIDEMIOLOGY 437 WEST 59th STREET, NEW YORK INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARY SCIENCE June I7 I925 Mr. A. Roeder, Pres. , United States Radium Corporation, New York City, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roeder: I have your letter of June I3th. We can go to the plant of the Luminite Corporation next Monday if it is agreeable to at them. Our examination of the girls had the Ansonia Clock Company showed them to be normal, or as normal as girls of that class could be expected to be. I am sorry that we cannot get into the plant of the Waterbury Clock Co. as I am told by a girl that worked there that one of their employees, a girl sixteen years of age who worked in their plant had the same experience that your girls had. A tooth extracted, necrosis of the jaw bone and death. She had only worked in the plant for six months. This would give us something to combat the theory that it was due to radium if the other girls should nothing. I have a letter from Dr Sanford of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. they say "It is true that we keep close watch of the technicians that are handling radium. However, in regard to blood studies we have had no deviation from the normal of any of our people who are exposed to ra- dium emanation. Of course that is the state of affairs that we always hope to maintain." Yours very truly Freden In B. Thin Frederick B. Flinn