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    "ocrText": "-3-\nafraid of starting a necrotic condition. These teeth were extracted by o ther\ndentists, the gums healed normally and no signs of any trouble ever appeared.\nIt may be stated that the girls as a whole were worked up to such a state that\nthey were afraid to have any dental work done.\nAt the time I was called to investigate the possibility of an unsuspected\nindustrial hazard in the dial painting industry, the plant which had employed\nthe girls so far discussed had practically shut down and it was impossible to\nmaice a thorough examination of their working conditions on an average working day.\nFortunately Dr. decil Drinker (2) had maile such a survey when the attention of the\nplant officials was first called to the suspected hazards. Dr. Drinker's con-\nclusions briefly wore that the condition arose from the girls* habit of pointing\ntheir brushes between their lips and thus permitting the ingress of small amounts\nof radio-active material to the oral cavity. From his own work with sing, he was\ninclined to lay the whole blame on the members of the radio-active families\npresent in the luminous paint.\nIt has been estimated that about two thousand girls in this country had\nbeen employed in dial painting at the peal of the industry and my inquiries among\nthe employees of different concerns have failed to reveal a single case that was\nsimilar to those observed among the employees of the Orange plant. Moreover we\nhave made inquiries in England and other European countries and find that there\nis no regord of any jaw necrosis among their dial workers. It is interesting to\nnote that my foreign correspondents call attention to the fact that the employees\nure warned since the cases reported in Orange against pointing their brushes in\ntheir mouths. At least we may assume that this habit was universal both from\nSuropean reports and from my own observations in factories in this country.\nThe Orange Plant has had approximately 375 girls employed in dial painting\nat different times. The number of girls employed at any one time varied from a"
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