Letters Sent to Edwin F. Smith, March 17, 1932

(COPY) Law Offices JOHN W. McGEEHAN, JR. 790 Broad St., Newark, N.J. . March 17, 1932. JUN 201932 Edwin F. Smith, Esq., 1 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N.J. Re: Lamptron VS. U.S. Radium Corp. My dear Ed: In accordance with my telephone conversation with you of today, I am writing to give you an outline of the situ- ation in the matter of the probable claim possessed by Mrs. Sarah Theresa Lamptron against the United States Radium Corp- oration, arising out of her employment by said Company, the indications being that she is suffering from radium poisoning. I am having her examined by Doctors, but the final test to definitely establish the presence of radium poisoning has not been made. As I stated to you on the telephone, I am disposed to amicably adjust this matter, and with this in view and in fairness to the Company and to the Plaintiff, it is my thought that it would be well to have her examined by your Doctors with your apparatus, so that you may ascertain, as you would any way, by examination subsequently to ours, whether she really is so afflicted. I have very little doubt that she is, by reason of the symptoms which I will describe later. The claimant is Mrs. Sarah Theresa Lamptron, wife of Alfred James Lamptron. She resides at 159 South 10th Street, Newark, She is the mother of three children, now aged approx- imately 6 years, 5 years and 2 years. She worked for the United States Radium Corporation at East Orange from the spring of 1918 until the spring of 1919, her employment being the painting of numerals by use of radium, on watch dials. The details of such employment are, I presume, known to you, and I will not recount them here. About two years after leaving the employ of the De- fendant and while employed as a nurse at the Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary, the claimant was confined to her bed for periods of from two to three weeks. Dr. Hawkes and Dr. Sprague were the attending physicians, and they could not diagnose the condition and remarked that her condition puzzled them. In 1929 she was confined to bed, and was attended by Dr. Favell. She was ex- tremely anemic, her skin was dry, and thereafter she was treated constantly here and in New York, finally being sent to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, where she was treated weekly from the latter part of 1929 to the latter part of 1930. She has anemia, extremely dry skin, pains all over the body, particularly through the shoulders, her right hand is numb, the thumb of this hand being useless mose of the time. The right hand becomes stiff,