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    "ocrText": "5.\nIt has been their custom to point thoir brushes betweex their lips after applying it\nto the dial and dipping it in water. Many decorative painters of glass and chima have\nthe same unsamitary habit, which has beex the scource of lead poisoming. The mumber of\ntimes that any girl would put the brush to her mouth depended on the individual. Pro-\nbably it was anywhere$ from two or three times a day to as many times for each dial\npainted. We learnt that tho each girl given her ONE brush, that they often took\neach other> brushes and of course this habit furmiahed an excellent method for conveying\ninfestion. The amount of paint that a girl would use a. day again varied with the type\nof work being done. It would be fair to aa that an average amount vould be 6 grams.\nTo got some idea n. to the anounts of paint that a girl might possibly get into\nher mouth, four girls were requested to point their brushes on cloths which ve collected\nand e amined. The girls were also instructed to keep track of the amount of paint that\nthey used in that time. Our results are as follows:\nC.M. Paint used I gram\nPaint on cloth 0.043 grams radium contents .00053\na\n2 n\n\"\n1\n\"\n0.205\nTE\n\"\nL.P.\n.0026\nn\n\"\nn\n\"\n\"\nN\na\nA.D.\nIO\n0.342\n,0043\n\"\nIO\n\"\ne\nn\n*\n0.512\nn\n11\nB.W.\n.0065\n\"\nn\nti\n0.576\nn\n\"\nAverage for TO grams\n.0072\nIn paint that these girls wera using Was supposed to contain 2.66 mgs of rae\ndio-rative material to IOO grams of zimo sulphide.\nIt is commonly reported that some of the girls a fairly ate \" the material and\ndid so because of the fealing that if radium a oure for cancer they would never\nget it. It has been suggested that the habit of pointing the brush in the mouth is to\nblame for the jaw trouble; that particles of radio active material became lodged bo-\ntween the teeth or in the roof of the mouth and caused an irritation that ended in ne-\ncrosis. This explanation has never proven satiafactory to us because of the common\nused of the tooth brush these days and the passage of fluid through the mouth. If a par-\nticle did become lodged in these places temporarily it must have been of such infinitesi"
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