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Factory Department
Home Office,
Whitehall,
Private
London, S. W. I.
Dear Professor Flinn,
Dr. Bridge has handed me your letter of the 13th ultimo on the subject of
the supposed effects of radium workers, in the use of luminous paint. You have
seen Dr. Rosher's report, and that really is the only evidence we have of effects
on the workers. It was as the result of what Dr. Overton found in two of the
cases that it was thought well to hand the matter to Dr. Rosher.
Such limited inquiry as has been made here has not revealed symtoms in
any way comparable with those described in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene
as occurring in a factory in America. No case of necrosis has been brought to
light, and I do not know of any jaw necrosis in persons who have worked in this
industry, outside of those reported from the United States. I am in close touch
with the Medical Inspectors of Factories on the Continent, and also with the
Director of the Medical Section of the International Labour Office -
Dr. L. Carozzi - and I am pretty sure to have my attention called to such cases,
if they had been observed. They will be on the watch now. Believe me,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) F. H. Legge
Senior Medical Inspector of Factories
Professor F.B. Flinn
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University,
437 West 59th Street,
New York.
Note by Dr. Flinn;
Dr. Legge is considered one of the leading men in
Industrial Diseases in the world and I am very much pleased to get his comments.
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