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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Haley Fiske, President
WADE WRIGHT, M.D.
ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR
New York City June 29, 1925.
M.Roder
Roder
Mr. Harold B. Viedt,
Vice-President and Gen. Manager,
United States Radium Corp.
East Orange, N.J.
Dear Mr. Viedt:-
I am at present engaged in preparing an article on
mortality and sickness among physicians and the allied professions
to be published in the International Encyclopedia of Health, which
is being brought out by the International Labour Office at Geneva,
Switzerland.
Inasmuch as one of the important ways in which the
health of physicians is affected is through injuries due to their
work with X-rays and radium, I am anxious to collect the most up-to-
date data on the causes and symptoms of such injuries.
Noting in the current press considerable comment on
the unfortunate death of one or two of your employees alleged to be
due or in part due to the handling of the product, it occurred to me
that you might be willing to furnish me with some exact information
in regard to the situation.
This information is of great interest and value to me
also in my work in industrial hygiene, and since I am aware that you
have undoubtedly given the matter some study any facts that you may be
kind enough to let me have I shall deeply appreciate.
Sincerely yours,
Wadr Wayled
Wade Wright, M.D.
Assistant Medical Director
In Charge of
Industrial Hygiene
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