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    "ocrText": "Page 16 -\noperation, and that he would have absolute freedom of action, and the right to\npublish any findings which he som fit.\nThe U. S. Radium Corporation paid the\nexpenses for stch investigation as Dr. Flinn conducted at the time of the law\nsuits in 1925. None of this money was for Dr. Flinn's pergonal service, but\nto defray expenses in connection with his investigation.\nSince that time on\nvarious occasions contributing money to a fund utilized by Dr. Flinn for the\ncontinuation of bis strudies and investigation of this industry on a broader\nscale.\nState\n41.\n11\nWhen Mãss Wiley asked permission to come over and see me at my office at the\nbuilding, at the suggestion of Dr. Alice Hamilton, I discussed freely with her\nmy findings up to date. She said that she wished that I would examine some of\nthe Orange girls, and said that she had the list of seven or eight girls whose\naddresses she would send and would try to persuade them to have an interview.\nShe mentioned ldss Schaub in particular, stating that Miss Sduab's own Doctor said\nthat there was nothing wrong with her whatever, that she had been examined by\nseveral neurologists and that all said that she was all right, but said they thought\nshe was neurotic, and probably had some stom-ch trouble.\nMãss Wiley said that\nif I would tall: with her and tell her of my findings it might relieve her mind\nand make her optomistic as to her general condition. I received a letter from\nMiss Wiley giving me Miss Schaub's address, saying that she could not find the other\naddresses she promised me, and suggesting that I write to Miss Schaub. I received\ne letter from Viss Schaub in response to my letter, saying that she was too ill to\nleave her home and that if I was interested enough in her case to come down to her\nhome that she would let me see her. I ignored her letter completely, because\nI\nthought that if she was not willing to come to my home to see me or the University\nfor exanination she was not worth bothering alout, especially after Miss Wiley's\nstatement.\nOne Sunday in the spring of 1926, I received a 'phone call from\nMiss Schaub introducing herself, because I did not remember her neme at the time,\nand asking if she could come to the house to talk with me for a few minutes. I\ntold\nher to come on up. She arrived at the house shortly afterwards with a friend,\nand after the usual greetings she told me that she had a tooth in her head that\nwas bothering har and wanted to know what my advice was about havin's it talcon out.\nI told her that the best thing she could do would be to go to a good dentist, explain\nto the man where she had worked, and if he thowht that the tooth should come out\nthat I would risk it and have it dono, as I know other girls wh9 had worlced at\nthe same thing and had teeth extracted but suffered no ill affects. I suggested\nthat ahe go outdoors and get all the sunshine she could, and also suggested to her\nthat if it was possible for her to come over to the office at Columbia University,\nwe would makre axeminations there. I made no examination, not even to look into\nher mouth. While she went to the lavoratory, her friend who came with her, told\nme about how she would remain in the houst all the time, and would not go out with\nfriends, I told her to try to get her friends to get her out of doors as much\nas possible to get all the sunshine sheaould to take her mind off of her condition.\nThat is all I waw of Miss Schaub.\nAt the time of Miss Wiley's visit to my office I told her that I was working with\nthe U. S. Radium Corporat ion in trying to determine where the trouble lay in the\nindustry. 11"
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