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jecture and theory, sone of which has since been discarded, that it
is impossible impartially and reliably to rationalize it.
There is no question but that defendant was utterly ignorant
of the harmful effecta attendant upon its factory process until 1984
when its attention was directed to an alleged case or radium necrosis
suffered by one of its former employees.
It had exersinations made of soveral of its ouployees of long-
est standing and requested an investigation into the situation by
the Life Extension Institute of New York. That ageney reported on
March 11, 1924 that no evidence vas disclosed of the influence of
any particular netallic poisoning and that the o eses, insofar as
they vent, showed the ordinary range of human troubles and did not
reflect any specific occupational influence. (Letter of Dr. Fisk,
to H. B. Viedt, Vice President, U. S. Radium Corporation, txhibit D-3.)
on March 12, 1924, it reteined Dr. Cecil K. Drinker of the
school of Public Health, Harvard University, to conduct an investi-
gation of the cause of necrosis occurring in reported cases. His
report concludes that the neorosis was probably caused by exposure
to radium, but as to how this could have occurred he was unable to
demonstrate then. The report is contained in Exhibit P-31-7 and
the substance of the same was received for publication on May 25,
1925, by and actually published in the Journel of Industrial Hygione
of August, 1925, Vol. VII, No. 8, p. 371, Exhibit D-7.
Following investigations and reports made by Dr. Blum, a den-
tist, and Dr. Hoffman, a statistician, in 1924, Dr. Harrison 8.
Martland, in 1925, published his first article on the subject,
which he entitled, "Sone Unrecognized Dangers in the Use and Hand-
ling of Radio-active Substances", Journal of American Medical
Association, Vol. 85, p. 1769, Decembor 3, 1925, Exhibit D-l. It is
undisputed that he established the ocoupational hazard in the dial
painting industry.
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