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OOPX LAV OFFICES SIDNEY H. NENMAN 75 MONTGOMERY STREET SUITE 513 -51,4 JERSEY GITY, N.J. Tobruary 2nd 1933. United States Radium Corpos 535 Pearl Street, New York City. Gentlanent RE: Grace Shea, formerly Grace Seal In response to your comunication of Jenuary 27th last, I have been informed by my client that she was in the employ of your institution for a period of at least two years and not the period referred to in said communication. According to the history of her case as fumished to mey she stated that a short time after her employment with your institution, she complained of intestinal disturbances, headaches, and generalized veakness. These fects were disclosed to your company by reason of receiving treatment on numerous occasions at the medical room provided for by her employers for such contingencies. At the time of her complaints she was in actual contact with luminous material. During the course of her employment and after the termination thereof, my client had been under constant medical attention, visited many medionl institutions, in furtherance of relieving her of the conditions complained of, without results in that direction. Specialists vere unable to determine the nature end cause of her ailments. At my request her case was referred to one of the nations foromost authority on radium poisoning who has definitely diagnosed her ailments as that of an active case of radium poison- ing with the possibilities of the same becoming progressively worse. For your information she is undergoing constant attacks of vomiting, hez vomitus being of a yellos consisteney. She has lost considerable weight, her teeth becans discolored and loose, her resistancy lowered, complains ofiteling of woakness, heart changes, pallor of conjunctiva, and general losa of body tone. A blood test reveals presence of anemia and lynphoeytosis. Vlords cannot express the pain and anguish of mind resulting therefrom. Trusting that your company will excend to this unfortune- ate victim the considaration which she deserves inasmich as the same was created thru no fault of her own in furtherence of the interests of your company. SHN:SS Sidnoy H. Newman (Stened) Sidney H. Nowman