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    "ocrText": "RECEIVE\nCohmbia University\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons\nEPIDEMIOLOGY\n632 WEST 168TH STREET, NEW YORK\nINDUSTRIAL HYGIENE\nPUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION\nINSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH\nSANITARY SCIENCE\nSept R.6 1928\nMr C. E. Lee,\nUnited States Radium Corp.,\nNew York City, N.Y.\nDear Mr Lee:\nI am enclosing two clippings from the American Journal of Public Health.\nOf course the one about the Academy of Medicine is not news to you.\nIt seems to me that it is time you and the clock companies got to-\ngether and collect the correct data SO as to have it ready for the conference in\nWashington when it is called. Of course as Mr Kjaer probably told you Miss Wiley\nof the Consumers League has furnished the Labor Department the information men-\ntioned in the other clipping and of course we know how careful she is in making\nstatements. I think we should be prepared to show her up in Washington in a quiet\nway. But the idea of saying that there have been fourteen cases deaths in your\nOrange plant and three in Waterbury is too much to let pass. Especially as it is\ngiven out officially by the Government department. I feel that if the conference\nis held in Washington it will give us of chance to get our side before the doctors,\nhealth officials and public for the papers will be sure to publish the proceedings.\nAlso they will be publish as an official document from the Treasury Department and\nI think you will find in the Labor Department. It would seem a chance to get the\nmatter out in a sane manner and clear the atmosphere.\nI am going up to Waterbury next Monday to examine the girls. Dr Thompson\nhead of the Section of Industrial Hygiene, United States Public Health Service is\ngoing to come up to and see how the examination is conducted. He may call. on you\nsoon.\nYours truly\nAndench\nFrederick B. Flinn\nIndustrial Poisoning Cases Among\nWatch Dial Painters-The effect of\nthe use of radioactive substances on the\nhealth of workers using these materials\nin the painting of clock and watch dials,\nhas recently been brought to the public\nattention once again through the lawsuit\nfiled against the United States Radium\nCorporation of Orange, N. J. According\nto the present paper 14 girls who have\nbeen employed in this plant at various\ntimes since 1917 have died as a result\nof the absorption of radium. In addi-\ntion, there have been 3 deaths reported\namong watch dial painters of Waterbury,\nConn.\nThe case against the United States\nRadium Corporation was settled out of\ncourt with an agreement providing that\neach of the victims is to receive an imme-\ndiate cash payment of $10,000, an an-\nnuity of $600, and an allowance for\nmedical and legal advice. It is reported\nthat one of the original workers with\nthis substance, formerly an official of the\nUnited States Radium Corporation and\nthe person who originated the formula\nfor the luminous paint used in the New\nJersey plant, is at the present time a\nvictim of radium poisoning.-Month.\nLabor Rev., 27, 1:42 (July), 1928.\nL.G.\nE. amer. Pulli. Hedlth\nsept 1928.\nRADIUM-MESOTHORIUM DANGEROUS\nT\nHE Committee on Public Health Re-\nlations of the New York Academy of\na. Pulhi\nMedicine is protesting the extent of the\nuse of radium-mesothorium in industry\nHedth\nbecause of its danger to workers. The\ncommittee has sent a protest to Surgeon\nGeneral Hugh S. Cumming of the U.S.\nPublic Health Service in the hope that\nhe will investigate conditions."
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