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The defendant instigated the Investigations and evidenced a
willingness to cooporate in then, demonstrating its effort
to determine the cause of the harmful effect upon its workers
as soon as its attention was directed thereto and there is no
suspicion upon which the court my rest to charge it with having
knowledge or such causo or that it should, prior to 1924, have had
such knowledge.
There is no better way to illustrate that conclusion than to
turn briefly to the defendant's case.
The defendant contenda that up until the year 1924 it dia
not know and cannot be charged with the knowledge that it was
dangerous for the dial peinters to ingest the possible maximum
amount of radium in the paint into their systems in the course
of their work.
Its contention is based on the assumption that the decedent
might have ingested 43 micrograms of radium sulphate daily for
51 days a week for a period of a year and a half. That amount is
a considerably larger figure than that on which the plaintiff in-
mists. The defendent suggests it because Dr. Martlond once stated
that this was the maximun amount according to his estimate.
AB a matter of fact, it is evident that a far smaller quantity
was taken into the systen. Bach worker painted 24 dials, each
dial having 14 figures, with a grom or less of paint. There are
in
28.54 grems/an ounce and the several grades of paint used contain-
ed 1 part or radium to 30,000 to 120,000 parts or zine sulphide.
Agreat number or considerstions enter into any approximation of
the amount or paint ingested and all of them tend to lessen the
amount suggested by the defendent or calculated by the plaintiff.
Dr. Lind testified that in his opinion of 1920 no harmful
effects vere to be expected from dinl painting under the circum
stanees and the length of time that the decedent workod. He
further testified thet the literature or that time had nothing
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