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    "title": "Report to [A. Roeder], January 28, 1926",
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        "Records Related to Radium Dial Painters"
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    "ocrText": "dustrial hazard in the dial painting industry, the plant which had employed the girls\nso far discussed had practically shut down and it was impossible to make a thorough\nexamination of their working conditions under the average working day sondition. For-\ntumately Dr Cecil Drinker had made such a survey when the attention of the plant officialS\nas\nwere first called to the suspected hazards. Dr Drinker's conclusions briefly were\nthat the condition arose from the girls' habit of pointing their brushes between their\nlips and thus permitting the ingress of small amoumts of radio-active material to\nthe oral cavity. From his own work with zimc, he was inclined to lay the whole blame\non the members of the radium family present in the luminous paint.\nIt has been estimated that about two thousand girls had been employed in dial\npainting at the peak of the industry and my inquiries among the employees of different\nconcerns have failed to reveal a single case that was similar to those observed among\nthe employees of the Orange plant. Moreover we have made inquiries in England and other\nEuropean countries and find that there is no record of any jaw necrosis among their\ndial workers. It is interesting to note that my foreign correspondents call attention\nto the fact that the employees are warned sinced the cases reported in Orange against\npointing their brushes in their mouths. At least we may assume that this habit uni-\nversal both from European reports and from my own observations in fac tories in this\ncountry.\nhas\nThe Orange Plant have had approximately 375 girls employed in dial painting at\ndifferent times. The number of girls employed at any one time varied with the work.\nany from a dozen to over two hundred.\nFor this reason the number. varied from Yoire\nThe average employee remained with them from one to two years, while some of the more\ncontimued the work five or six years. No cases were reported to the company\nuntil steady 1923 when it was thought that one of the girls ' condiitions might be explained\nby her previous employment. She had left the employ of The Orange Plant three or\nfour years previously.\n°8"
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