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1929
sun
71
20
U. S. INVESTIGATES
regu
deal
in
RADIUM POISONING
L
Fa
Is Examining 200 Workers
E
Exposed to Rays.
P.
ha
WI
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.).
a
Scientists of the United States Pub-
po
lic Health Service now are engaged
in the task of making painstaking
na
examinations of between 100 and 200
fa
factory workers who have been ex-
M
posed to radium rays in an effort
st
to save them from the ravages of
si;
a dreaded new industrial disease.
Already about fifty workers in New
P
York city and Connecticut have re-
fr
ceived careful tests with the aid of
ni
a. new instrument, an electroscope
recently imported from Europe, but
da
the examinations will not be com-
at
pleted until about September 1. The
slo
reports of the various examinations
ab
then will be compiled and published.
m:
Dr. L. R. Thompson, who has
no
charge of the radium survey, ex-
lio
plained today that an effort is be-
an
ing made to examine every worker
dit
in this part of the country who has
th
been exposed to radium rays. There
ab
are now forty-two known radium
th
poisoning cases in the country, and
up
the disease has taken a toll of twen-
Pr
ty-one deaths, he said.
Workers examined have not neces-
Je
sarily been injured by the radium
T
rays, Dr. Thompson added, as many
persons have worked with radium
A
over a period of years without any
Ne
ill effects. Harm has come mostly
tio
in cases where girls in clock fac-
twe
tories pointed radium-tinted brushes
day
with their lips. The practice has
Cor
been discontinued.
on
"The object of the survey," he
and
said, "is to study how persons ex-
fre
posed to the three varieties or
cha
radium rays-alpha, beta and gamma
of
-have been affected by such ex-
cor
posure and to formulate preventive
P
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