Clipping, July 19, 1928

THE UNITED STATES DAILY: THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928 at Watch Dial Painters 90 TU u Subject to Poisoning o la ALU By Radioactive Paint SI 7 Labor Department Reviews DI Cases Recently Under Liti- pit a) e gation and Other In- by pr t stances Reported. Vi S ei t The Department of Labor has just fo d made public a statement regarding in- t dustrial poisoning cases among watch- la dial painters. It tells of the settlement a, 0 of a case brought against the United g States Radium Corporation by five 01 women employes and of a former offi- cial of that corporation, now victims of tH radium poisoning. CC- The full text of its statement follows: W° The effect of the use of radioactive B³ substances on the health of workers di employed in painting the dials of r} watches and clocks with luminous paint b t has been the subject of investigation by fil physicians and scientists, and the cases n') of poisoning among these workers have irc also received a considerable amount of 7 publicity since the first death from this te ( cause was reported in 1924. t]! Settlement of Suits. p The subject has recently been brought no to the fore again through the suit brought against the United States Ra- e dium Corporation, Orange, N. J., by V 7! five young women who are in a more a or less serious condition as a result of their work with the radioactive paint. Val Fourteen girls who had been employed at various times since 1917 in the plant cl: in N. have died as a result the of Orange, the practice absorption of J., pointing of radium the brushes through in pl their mouths. There have been three