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During the war we probably had 40 or 50 girls employed for
several years, not only on luminising dials of our watches but carrying
out many contracts for various Departments of the British Government,
lumising instruments for aeroplanes, submarines, etc.
The Wer Office required the material used on their orders to
be of a standard of what they called .2 which, if I remember correctly,
meant 200 microgrammes of radium content to the gramme of material,
which would correspond with the U. S. Corporation's present grade D.
The Admiralty (which included the Air Ministry) specified .4
All the material we used for the Government had to be
tested before we used it by the National Physical Laboratory, and all
the articles which we luminised were also sent to them by the Government
for testing, and any that were not up to their standard were rejected
and returned to us.
During all this time there has never been the slightest
suspicion of any illness or injury to health of any of the people
we have employed in that Department that could by any stretch of the
imagination be attributed to their being employed on luminising these
Watches and Clocks etc.,
I do not think that even at the East Orange Factory referred to
in the Newspaper clippings that there has ever been the slightest injury to
the health of any person arising from their handling of radium
luminous material as supplied to you and to us for the luminising of
our Tocks and Watches, whether they are bottling or otherwise handling
the material, or mixing and applying same to Watch and Clock dials.
If there has been anyone engaged in that kind of work who has
become ill or died, and if there is any suspicion that the illness or
death was due to Radium, then it is my opinion that the injury was
caused through that person, in addition to handling the material as we
use it, , having handled pure Radium or Radium bromide without taking
the well-known necessary precautions.
I have a friend from Brussels over here for a few days, who
is intimately connectéd with the Belgian Company who extract Radium
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