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defenses.
on January 10, 1933, the insti tuted this suit in
equity to enjoin the defendant from setting up the statute of lim-
itations as a defense to the plaintiff' a action at Law.
Nothing like a fair analysis of the evidence relating to the
development of redium therapeutically and industrially can be givon
here. The legal issues will be decided on the basis of the evidence
offered by the plaintiff and only a brief allusion can be made to
the details of the cases presented in such a thoroughgoing manner
by both parties.
There 1s no question but that dial painters, at the time the
decedent worked in the defendant's factory, ingested radium sulphate
contained in the paint, with which they worked, by pointing the
brushes with their lips and that they breathed and swallowed radium
sulphat to contained in the dust in the nir of their workroom, and
radium emanation present in the workroom. The diel painters were
protected by neither special methods or devices nor scientific ven-
tilation.
Doubtless, the insoluble radium sulphate was absorbed in part
after ingestion; some of it must have reached the bloodstream and
eventuelly been deposited in the bones of 1 to victim. At the same
time a diel painter would have constantly been subject to radium
emanation and redium A. It suffices that the autopsy of the de-
cedent revealed that radium was present in the decedent's bones after
her
death in 1931. The amount of redium to which the systems of
dial workers were subjected must have been fairly constant and added
to that it appears that its effect would be cumulative.
But there is no reason to consider those factors now. It has
only been established since 1924 or 1925 that the condi tions undor
which the dial painters worked in 1917 and thereabouts subjected
them to a pernicious and frightful occupationel hazerd. The im-
portant factual question is to determine how much the scientific
and medioal world and the defendant knew about the industry at
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