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of the paint got on the hand used to hold the containero The girls could be seen
touching their hair and other parts of the body with this hand and it was sur-
prising how luminous these portions of the body became when flashed and then ob-
served in a dark room. The aprons which the girls wore were observed to shine
all over whon returned from the laundry. Te felt as if the paint had been "set"
in the washing process, We have never been able to detect any luminousity any-
where where actual contact with the paint by means of the brush, hands or
splashing could not explain it.
The girls apply the luminous paint to the dials with small camel hair
brushes. It has been their custom to point their brushes betweon thoir lips
after applying it to the dial and dipping it in water. Many decorative painters
of glass and china have the same unsanitary habit, which has been the source of
lead poisoning. The number of times that any girl would put the brush to her
mouth depended on the individual. Probably it was an ywhere from two or three
though
times a day to as many times for each dial painted. Me learned that/each girl
was given her own brush, they often took each others brushes and of course this
habit furnished an excellent method for conveying infection. The amount of
paint that a girlwwould use a day again varied wi th the type of work being done.
It would be fair to say that an average amount would be 6 grams.
To get some idea as to the amounts of paint that a girl might possibly
get into her mouth if all the paint left on the brush after painting the dial
was taken in, four girls were requested to point their brushes on cloths which
we collected and examined. (The faot is that they dipped the brushes into water
thus removing most of the paint before they pointed the brush between the lips.)
The girls were also instructed to keep traok of the amount of paint that they
used in that time. Our results are as follows:
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