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Factory Department
Home Office,
Whitehall,
London, S.W.I.
Private
Dear Professor Flinn,
Dr Bridge has handed me your letter of the I3th 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 vay
comparable with those described in the Journal of Industrial Hygione 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
Interhational Labour Office- Dr L Carozzi- - and I am protty 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
Professor F. B. Flinn
College of Physicians & Surgeons Signed F. H. Legge
Columbia University,
437 West 59th Street,
Senior Medical Inspectór of Factories
New York.
N te 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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