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    "ocrText": "that he will make some modification of these tables, or at least modifications\nregarding the captions of the tables.\nI am rather unable to understand the attitude of the Department. I my opinion\nthe report is very damaging, and anyone who would read same would be quite justified\nin claiming or contending that the industry as conducted since 1926 is fully, if\nnot more hazardous than the industry as conducted prior to that time.\nOn the\nother hand Dr. Leake advised me verbally that in his opinion the industry can be\nconducted along entirely safe lines, and that they - the Department - would be\nwilling to substantiate this position. He further stated that the reason they have\nmade the picture so gloomy, is to make the offenders realize that there is a\ndanger in this work, and the necessity of exercising every possible precaution.\nWhile I agree there is some merit in taking such a position, still at the same\ntime I feel that the issuing of a report such as they have prepared will be very\nalarming to the Clock Companies, as well as to any girls who have ever worked at\nthis line or are working at it at the present time.\nMr. Granger of the Waterbury Clock Company, has suggested to the Department\nthe\na re-examination of the girls, that the Department found active, be undertaken.\nDr. Leake does not respond favorably to such a procedure, and I am rather inclined\nto agree with him. They have spent a lot of time on this work, and from their\nstandpoint it has been completed. Mr. Ingraham, of the E. Ingraham Co., alee\nsuggests that a further survey of the girls employed since 1926, be conducted to\ndetermine to the satisfaction of the Clock Companies, that these girls are really\nactive.\nThe opinion seems to be that this investigation should be condicted as a joint\nproposition, Dr. Flinn and the Department participating, as well as a third and\ndisinterested party. Your name has been suggested in this connection. It seens\nto me that in the event the Clock Companies desire a re-examination of their\ngirls, that such an examination should be conducted independently of either Dr.\nFlinn or the Deparment of Health, and that such an investigation should be at the\nrequest of the Clock Companies for their information to satisfy themselves, as to\nwhether or not the reports Dr. Flinn has been rendering periodially to them are\nright, or whether the work of the Department of Health is correct.\nI am wondering whether or not you would be willing to undertake such an\ninvestigation for the Clock Companies? I am inclined to believe that if you are\nwe will be able to obtain a fund to carry on this work. I would further suggest\nthat if you undertake such a program you have someine to assist you - probably\none of your students at the Univesity who would be capable of giving the assistance\nrequired in this type of work.\nDr. Leake is going to make a report on the work of the Department at the\nAmerican Medical Association's meeting in Phila., on June 10th.\nI understand\nthat Dr. Flinn is going and may discuss the report. I am planning on attending\nas a listener only, to find out what is going on.\nfact that this\nIn view of the/report will probably be forthcoming very shortly unless a\nconcerted action is taken, we are proposing to devote the greater part of next\nweek to the consideration of this problem, and hope to formulate a definite plan\nof action. In order that we may move intelligently, I hope you will give this\nletter immediate consideration, and advise us whether you would be available to\nundertake this work, and when"
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