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COPY FROM
OLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
the
600 WEST 168TH STREET. NEW YORK
DE LAMAR INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Miss J. Koteck
December 5, 1944
never found a case of radium poisoning among the babies.
Unfortunately when the early cases of radium
poisoning came out in the newspapers there were a large
number of false statements made and the public did not
understand the situation at all. I can assure you that
if I thought that you or any other girl had a chance of
being a radium case I would notify you myself. I have
examined girls continuously who are working with the
modern protective method such as you were working under
and I have never found a girl yet who has contracted
radium poisoning under these conditions. The girls who
had radium poisoning were girls who use to put the brush
in their mouth continuously and when I took the girls
into a darkroom from the paint room you could see the
iluminous paint all over their lips. As you know no
girl puts a brush in their mouth these days and 11 they
do they are discharged immediately. I have a number of
girls who I have examined for over twenty years and who
have worked continuously with radium paint and at no
time beve they showed any indication of radium poisoning.
Miss Gunther is one of these girls and I have examined
her personally, each year, for approximately twenty years.
I trust that this will make you feel better
and also settle any fears that your family may have. If
your mother wants to ask me any questions I would be very e
happy to have her write to me direct and I will give her
direct answers to any of these questions.
Yours sincerelys
Frederick B. Flinn
Director of Industrial Hygiene.
FBF:GD
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